Welcome to Adelaide

Our Jetstar flight landed at 10:05 on a Saturday night, the airport was all but closed with no shops open. The final flight of the evening was an Emirates flight departing at 10:35, that was it. So this was a Saturday night in the capital of South Australia.

Welcome to Adelaide, the city where fun goes to die. A little too harsh of an assessment, well maybe, but that was first impressions. As we climbed into the cab and headed to the CBD we weren't left with much of an impression of a fun city. Our hotel was on South Terrace and it was like the city was shut down and off we went in search of some food at about 11 pm on a warm Adelaide Saturday night.

There were a few hotels open but they didn't seem to be buzzing and they didn't look to be serving food at not only this time of night or earlier and the five nights we booked here weren't looking all that exciting. My first impressions of Adelaide were not brilliant - that's true. I just hoped that during the course of my stay my impressions of Adelaide were to improve.