Beer Garden

[thecityguy]

If anyone says south Australia is boring, I suggest they check out this video

Enjoy!!!!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2uQxT1X0HVM


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[rev]

If anyone says south Australia is boring, I suggest they check out this video

Enjoy!!!!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2uQxT1X0HVM


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If you think that's exciting I think you need to travel some more.
Great video though. And if there was some shots from within the CBD/City of night life from the the new small bars and festivals, with a better choice in music, that would be almost worthy of being used as a tourism add. But I don't think I saw SA's two favorite things to brag about..Glenelg and the wineries.
Seriously that music put me to sleep.

[thecityguy]

I've travelled quite a lot, and this still makes south Australia look like a pretty amazing place....but I agree, would have loved to see some more cbd shots!


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[crawf]

I live in the affected area......

This should be fun

Adelaide traffic chaos expected as Light City Bus drivers vote to strike on Tuesday, April 4
DAVID NANKERVIS, The Advertiser
April 1, 2017 12:45pm
Light City bus drivers strike in doubt after new pay offer
Bus strike to cause traffic chaos across Adelaide
ADELAIDE traffic will be plunged into chaos after a bid to avert a public transport bus strike this Tuesday was rejected by drivers at a meeting Saturday morning.

Light City Buses increased the rise in the wage offered to drivers’ earlier this week but the Transport Workers Union said it came at the cost of a worsening of working conditions.

LCB drivers will go ahead with the 24 hour strike which halt a third of Adelaide Metro bus services.

The LCB fleet has around 380 vehicles servicing the northern, southern and outer northeastern suburbs, including Aberfoyle Park, Seacliff, Port Adelaide and Golden Grove.

Drivers had already put a ban on charging fares from Friday, costing the Government an estimated $50,000 a day in revenue.

Union spokesman Edward Lawrie said drivers had an issue with changes to working conditions, not the 3.4 per cent wage increase currently on offer.

“We’d be happy with a 3 per cent rise so long as working conditions remained the same,’’ he said this morning.

“The conditions the company want to change is increasing our shifts by 45 minutes and decreasing the task time for things like signing on and refuelling buses.’’

[adelaide transport]

Light-City Buses tonight said that they hope to run some services with non-union drivers.Only a small percentage of their drivers are union members.
Could be an interesting day.

[crawf]

Will information be provided on which services are running? etc. I've never had to deal with a public transportation strike before.

[Norman]

Will information be provided on which services are running? etc. I've never had to deal with a public transportation strike before.

Check the Adelaide Metro site tomorrow.

[crawf]

Will information be provided on which services are running? etc. I've never had to deal with a public transportation strike before.

Check the Adelaide Metro site tomorrow.

Thanks Norman. P.S I just realised I posted that article in the wrong thread lol

[adelaide transport]

Tuesday's strike has been called off after an "in-principle" agreement between the union and Light-City buses.

[Jaymz]

Now honestly. Can I just ask why it's so difficult to post a proper photo on this forum? Is it just the format of the website, or is it the paranoia of the supposed chosen few who may dish out this supposedly prestigious status to a chosen few. C'mon, there's dozens of positive contributors to this site

[slenderman]

Now honestly. Can I just ask why it's so difficult to post a proper photo on this forum? Is it just the format of the website, or is it the paranoia of the supposed chosen few who may dish out this supposedly prestigious status to a chosen few. C'mon, there's dozens of positive contributors to this site

I don't understand. In what way can't you (or anyone else) post a photo? Pretty sure some of the recent spammers have managed to post gifs on the site of their adult content, so it's certainly not impossible.

All you have to do is post the photo onto an image hosting site (I use imgur) and then copy-paste the link that is generated to display it on message boards/forums onto a post here. Alternatively, some posters can directly upload to the site (I can and occasionally use this, but not sure what the exact criteria is).

Or are you talking about how some people upload huge pictures you need to zoom out to properly see? That's down to not resizing them to about 800x600 which is the rough size they need to be in order to display on the forums properly. You can preview a post before you post it to see whether or not the photo is too large and then re-size it accordingly.

[Llessur2002]

A very positive review for our excellent city. Another Portland comparison too - can't be a bad thing.

All hail Adelaide: How the Australian city became 'the new Portland'


An Adelaide street scene

Adelaide is the new Portland,” one thirtysomething musician tells me. He moved back to his hometown after years in Melbourne, and has returned to find the city going through a dynamic, creative phase.

The Portland comparison has been made before. Both cities boast a small population, great coffee, a thriving indie music scene, craft beer, progressive citizens, environmental innovation and a strong creative class who are drawn to the area for its affordable rents. It might have once been known as the “city of churches” – and one of the most buttoned-up, staid and provincial cities in Australia – but Adelaide has now well and truly relaxed.


Adelaide Central Market

In fact, for years, its small size had been a hitch to getting noticed. But that more human scale is now part of Adelaide’s appeal. With a population of just over a million, it has some glorious parks and gardens, and the city faces the Southern Ocean with beautiful beaches such as Glenelg and Seacliff.

People who move from the bigger, more expensive cities such as Melbourne and Sydney rave about the quality of life in Adelaide. They say that it can feel like a big country town, that the bush and the beach are not far – and that some of the country’s best wine districts are a short drive away. South Australia has a dry Mediterranean climate most of the year, although summers can become scorchingly hot, and that allows for some great produce to be grown in the surrounding landscape.

Adelaide may be most known for its food and wine but culture runs a close second. In February/March the city is transformed by a series of big arts festivals, from the Adelaide Festival and Fringe to the world-music festival Womadelaide and Adelaide Writers’ Week – all around the same time. Abandoned factories, multistorey car parks and back gardens are transformed into performance venues. More than a million tickets are sold during festival time – for events ranging from one-person cabaret shows, to some of Europe’s best touring operas.


Dining at Madame Hanoi

And now that creativity is seeping into the rest of the year. While also home to many grand old pubs, Adelaide’s small bar scene is humming and there are boutique gin distilleries popping up in old colonial buildings, as well as almost 40 craft-beer companies and microbreweries, which have taken off since licensing laws were relaxed a few years ago.

On a recent visit, after catching an early cabaret show at the Fringe, I go for cocktails at the Pink Moon Saloon on Leigh Street, a small bar designed to resemble a mini ski lodge or a child’s cubby house. “Don’t talk to the log lady,” reads the sign on the door with a nod and wink to cult David Lynch TV series Twin Peaks . The bar is small, and packed to the rafters.


Madame Hanoi, a French-Vietnamese restaurant in Adelaide

I move on to Madame Hanoi for dinner. Housed in one of the most handsome buildings in the city, this is a French-Vietnamese restaurant in the historic Railway Station building (now housing the Skycity Adelaide Casino). Shareable dishes include chilli tiger prawns with beans and kaffir lime, and braised pork hock. Adelaide’s multicultural food scene boasts excellent restaurants serving pan-African food such as the mouthwatering South African barbecue dishes at Africola; Cajun at Nola, a lively venue which also doubles as a brewhouse, and Mexican at Chihuahua, beloved for its delicious tequila-based cocktails.


Dining at Abbots and Kinney

But it’s the backstreets that are home to some of the coolest restaurants and most interesting cafés. In the city centre, Ebenezer Place, between Rundle and Grenfell Streets, is the perfect spot to spend a Saturday morning. This quiet lane is a hipster oasis, with a mix of apartments, boutiques and bars.

Local favourite Hey Jupiter has colourful tables and a wall of ornate mirrors, and serves waffles, baked eggs and its most popular dish, Berkshire pork-belly sandwich – but you’ll have to get there early before it sells out.

And its creamy, strong Five Senses coffee is sensational. A short walk away on Pirie Street there’s an unmissable pastry fix to be had at Abbots and Kinney. Robust and filling, these are no lightweight treats – such as the delicious Jean-Claude Van Ham, or ham and béchamel croissant. Artists, and fashion and jewellery designers are gathering in the area – taking over cheap-as-chips collective work spaces.

New urban hotel boltholes are opening up the city, too. I’m staying at the Mayfair Hotel in the 19th-century Colonial Mutual Life building, all cool greys and whites behind an elegant exterior, with bathrooms floored in subway tiles. It’s just around the corner from the city’s main shopping strip and a 10-minute walk to Adelaide Central Market.


The Mayfair Hotel

Established in 1869, this is where the city’s foodies come to shop. The stall selling produce from Kangaroo Island has a range of locally produced cheese, yogurt, honey and eggs. Local celebrity chef Poh Ling Yeow – who has her own cooking show on the national network ABC – can be seen in a nearby stall prepping food for her café Jamface. It’s a great spot for lunch.

Many of the new businesses in Adelaide were started by young locals who have lived abroad or in Australia’s bigger cities, and returned to their hometown bursting with great ideas. One such is Yeow, as well as the local urban designer Daniels Langeberg, whose pedicab fleet EcoCaddy has brought zero-emissions public transport to the city. This clutch of talent is creating a palpable buzz on the streets of Adelaide, a city also lucky to be surrounded by natural beauty and fresh produce – and all a stone’s throw from Australia’s best wine region.

From: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/trave ... -portland/

[timtam20292]

When I take a photo that I want to share on here later, I always make sure the size is suitable. I don't want to bend my head or pick up my laptop and turn it to its side just to view the dam photo. Its not that hard.

[Norman]

My photos automatically upload to OneDrive, which has a really good photo embedding tool that shows you to choose the size it should be displayed at.

[monotonehell]

Now honestly. Can I just ask why it's so difficult to post a proper photo on this forum? Is it just the format of the website, or is it the paranoia of the supposed chosen few who may dish out this supposedly prestigious status to a chosen few. C'mon, there's dozens of positive contributors to this site

I have moved this discussion into a more appropriate area.

Jaymz, I would also like some clarification of what you are talking about? Anyone can post an externally hosted picture. Some people have access to picture storage on the server, although I have never quite worked out what level of experience triggers that privilege.