What time is it there?!

After a few weeks of lounging around, struggling with the heat (Adelaide had the hottest December on record and the highest single Decemer day since 1939 at a whopping 42.7 degrees .... and January and February are meant to be hotter ....yikes!) and generaly eating and drinking too much, we decided that we really should see a bit of the city that was our current home. We trecked around some of the finer architectural sights of the city and saw some really pretty examples.

The climate here doesn’t lend itself to the buildings growing a protective covering of moss and lichen so they look much newer than some of them actually are, although none are really that old when compared to their European counterparts. Nonetheless, it was interesting to see this city which was designed from scratch by a man called William Light. It seems almost unthinkable that a city was planned from a blank canvas. To us London and its’ higgeldy-piggeldy streets that continually stretch further and further out are how cities develop. Not Adelaide, its’ streets are all perfectly mapped out as per Lights’ plan with a park nestling in each corner. It is totally symetrical and there it just sits, a little city on the southern coast of Australia almost as if it was placed with the same care that we would when we get a hotel on Mayfair.