mytrilife

Adelaide, almost settled

It's a been a trying couple of days here.

After getting setup in our hostel since we arrived in Adelaide we have been searching desperately for accommodation. With the city quickly filling up with travelers and other visitors for the summer, the competition for furnished apartments and shared housing here is fierce. With several days left in our stay at Hostel 109, we let a few of the first places we looked at go. No worries, right?

Monday evening, we booked a cheap tour of the McLaren Vale, one of the premier winery areas in the country. Smaller than some of the other regions, but renowned for great wine. We figured it was too good to pass up. Well... we're waiting Tue morning to go on the wine tour when the hostel owners tell us that our room has been overbooked! They figured we could get more days, but the Cricket fans started to fill up all the accommodation in Adelaide for the Ashes test on the weekend. We had to pack our bags immediately, and the hostel owners would move them while on the tour.

After the wine tour, we were moved to friends of the hostel owners who had an extra bed in their house. The only problem.. they have just sold their house and are preparing to move. So our time is very limited here as well! We have been going over the apartment listings every day and there hasn't been much to view. However, we have FINALLY found a place, which we look at tomorrow morning, which unless it's a crack-house, we will take. And on the plus... it's in our price range and has the best location of any place we have looked at! Close to TWO 50m pools, the hills, not far from the CBD.... it's where we originally wanted to live when we arrived in Adelaide.

Anyways.... I'll post here tomorrow after I move (HOPING I MOVE!), and will try and get some pics up of our McLaren Vale wine tour and the apartment.

FYI, the wineries we toured were:
Wirra Wirra
Hugh Hamilton
D'Arenberg
Chapel Hill Winery

Oh yeah... more cool events going on in Adelaide:
Kylie Minogue just played here
Robbie Williams is on Sunday
Ashes Cricket Test til Tuesday (I think)
Adelaide Internation Tennis tournament (prelude to the Aussie Open)
Tour Down Under cycling stage race in January (pro cycling... woo!)
Clipsal 500, stock car race in the CBD

That's just a few.. Adelaide has a lot to offer!

posted by Greg @ 12/01/2006