Adelaide

Here are some photos from Adelaide from the beach and the university


My uni, the University of Adelaide, is a huge complex, where you can study everything from classical music to engineering and social sciences. The campus itself is beautiful, situated just by the River Torrens. Here are some photos I took from the school when I arrived in February.

Photos from the beach at Glenelg and Henley beach. 

Glenelg 

Henley Beach

Glenelg with exchange student friends Christina, Marlon, Tanja and Chris

Me, Aude and Roxana on our way to a fabulous jazz concert, a tribute to Ella Fitzgerald

Easter trip

Easter trip Adelaide-Barossa Valley-Sydney-East Coast-Brisbane

31.3.-17.4.

Glenelg, Adelaide, just before sunset

My boyfriend, Juhani, came to visit me in Australia and we had a great time visiting different places in Australia. We started in Adelaide biking around and did a wine tasting trip to Barossa Valley, the home of wine producers such as Penfolds and Jacobs Creek. We had excellent wine in a winery called Langmeil, but unfortunately you can´t buy it from Alko, our Finnish alcohol monopoly. Wine, cheese and biking in Barossa - it was a perfect start for our trip!

 From Adelaide we flew to Sydney and I have to say I was a bit jealous about not being on exchange there...I love it! But..it was huge and bus rides in traffic did take ages. We saw all the touristy stuff, here some pictures to prove it :)

The ultimate tourist picture in Sydney - The Opera House!

                                                                                               The Botanic Garden in Sydney was beautiful    

On the way from Coogee to the famous Bondi Beach in Sydney

From Sydney we drove to the Blue Mountains and hiked there for a few days. Once you see the incredible blue light that casts upon the mountains, you understand why they are called, well, the Blue Mountains. It´s a World Heritage site and I recommend everyone to go there if you are in Sydney, the views were just spectacular!

The view on our hike near Katoomba in the Blue Mountains

hiking in the mountains

more spectacular views

From the Blue Mountains we drove to the East Coast and enjoyed days of sun, surf and a bit more sun! We had so much fun, that we almost have no pictures, we just forgot! But waves were good, especially in Crescent Head and Coolangatta.  And I had to wear a wetsuit because I was freezing - ironically- on the Gold coast of Australia

Coolangatta the place of sun and surf! 

We didn´t miss Australia´s famous animals, we saw cute koalas and friendly kangaroos. 

Great Ocean Road

Before arriving  to Adelaide I did some traveling with Tanja, another Finnish girl, who´s here on exchange from Finland. Here are some pictures from our trip to The Grampians, The Great Ocean Road and Melbourne


Graffiti in Melbourne

Huge earphones made of iced coffee boxes in St Kilda





















The Great Ocean Road and me





St Kilda beach in Melbourne




                                                                                                            Hiking in the Grampians















The twelve Apostles on the Great Ocean Road

Port Elliot

Just got back home from Port Elliot. It was lovely! And it had the best hostel I have ever been to.

But Australia´s still going weird :) You´re allowed to drink on the beach when all of the families are there, but when kids go to sleep, drinking becomes prohibited :)

Adelaide, the small town in a great city

When I arrived to Adelaide over a month ago I honestly had no idea what it would be like. After a few days of traveling in Melbourne Adelaide seemed small - now it has proved itself great  a city in a disguise of a town.

Things I love in Adelaide: (this list is just the beginning...)

1)The people - you are amazing! Adelaide is a city with a townish feel in it. And this is a heavy compliment! It´s easy to come here, you are always ready to help the stranger settling in. I love it!

2)The FRINGE - how can one city have so much art? And some of it even for free?! Underneath you´ll find a pic of Minerva, she had a great show during the street festival

3)Wine - Who would´t love it? Trips to Barossa, Mclaren Vale and the Adelaide Hills are just around the corner, but we took a false start and found a amazing pop-up winery, The Vinteloper,  on 188 Grenfell St Adelaide. Good friends and good wine. Could life get any better?
http://www.vinteloper.com.au/

4)Bikes - You can bike about everywhere! On Monday morning when endless queues of cars try to enter City, I just wave and pass them all! Especially with SA weather and the inexistent hills - biking could´t be better than this!

5)The weather. Trust me. Finland is different. I love it there too, but this is South Australia.

I saw this movie yesterday - and it did what all great movies do - I just  could not stop thinking about it.

I come from a faraway country where, at least for a great extent, women and men are free and equal. Free to have their own opinions and free to do what they're best at. Living midst equality often makes you forget how precious it really is.

One of the first things I found out in Australia, positively astonished, was that public toilets are actually clean! And for free. And that they have a site where you can actually plan your trip with a toilet map (?!?). http://www.toiletmap.gov.au/