Saturday, May 21, 2011

Adelaide Day 5 - Adelaide City

The morning of Day 5 saw us heading straight to this famous Café Bavaria in Victor Harbour. Many German settlers helped to establish townships of the Fleurieu Peninsula. This part of the region's heritage is reflected in the offerings at Café Bavaria in Victor Harbour.
Café Bavaria boasts a fine selection of German bratwurst, goulash and Bavarian tortes. For the sweet tooth, they offer cakes, apple strudel, beestings, cheesecakes, and pastries. All the traditional foods at Café Bavaria are baked daily, on site, using fresh ingredients.

We ordered an apple strudel, a sausage pastry, a cappuccino and a babyccino. All did not disappoint, except the babyccino which is very milky.
iPhone... bringing little people together.
Next up, the horse drawn tramway. The tramway links the visitor information centre in downtown Victor Harbor with the nearby Granite Island, running for half of its route over a 630 metre wooden causeway.
There were camels ride available too.
Surprisingly, Heidi wasn't afraid of the pony called Tina. I didn't ask her if she wanna ride it though.
She even talked to Tina.
The hairy Clydesdale horses pull the double-decked tramcar to and fro Granite Island every half hour or so daily. I am sure Granite Island has a history, but on our visit there, it just seemed like all rocks to me, so I won't have anything to say about it.
In the afternoon, we drove up to Adelaide City.

We visited the Light Square park in the city centre in the evening, near to Chinatown and just a few tramstop away from Oaks Embassy, which was to be our base as we explore Adelaide the next few days.

Oliver likes his trenchcoat and thinks he looks like a soldier. I think so too, like a commie.
The tram which was our main mode of transport. Free within the city.
Heidi contemplating what to eat in Chinatown, on my shoulder.
Oliver playing with his spinning tops at the dining table.
Back in the hotel, Sophia made 2 cups of Milo and placed it on the table. Oliver kept shouting for us to come and see... a face!

Sophia is a Milo barista.