Several friends and myself have decided that we will start visiting the popular and not so popular sites around Adelaide and also include areas around South Australia.
Population in South Australia is just under 2 million, so you can see we don't have a large population, so there is plenty of room for everyone.
The weather consists of warm dry summers (none of that humidity stuff) and cool winters (no snow), with an average annual rainfall of 585mm. We get most of the rain from May to August. Summer can be very hot and in fact we have just had our hottest New Years day for 100 years, where it got to 41C.
We have some beautiful beaches to compensate for that though. The photo is of Brighton Beach yesterday and the temp was 37C. My husband and I took his mother to Brighton for her birthday. We had lunch at the Espy and then wandered onto the jetty to people watch. The water was so clear and inviting, I did wish I had brought my bathers. Our beaches are beautiful but not crowded and we have a lot of safe beaches to swim in that are close to the city.
A bit about Brighton Beach
You can get to Brighton easily by train or bus if you do not have a car. Many visitors and locals catch the tram to Glenelg and then walk to Brighton for lunch and then back to Glenelg. The distance between beaches is approx. 4kms I think.
Brighton has a small shopping strip which makes it look more like a small seaside village than a suburb. There are some very trendy shops and lots of sidewalk cafes and yes they are dog friendly. They also supply water containers for your pooch.
There are some really good restaurants also but my favorite spot is the Esplanade Hotel(Espy) where you can get a really good view of the ocean.
Brighton also has a jetty and you often see the young people jumping off it(not allowed but!!who follows rules these days).
I am very attached to Brighton because when I was a kid I learnt to swim there. Mum took the 5 of us children by train to Brighton for swimming lessons every summer. She couldn't swim and wanted to make sure we all could.
Brighton is a nice alternative to go to if you want a quieter beach and shopping area.
Esplanade Hotel (Espy)
Brighton Beach Jan 2nd 2012
The next blog will be about somewhere in Adelaide and its suburbs.
