Leisurely down Rundle Street..

We came by The Stag Hotel (Serious About Meat), Adelaide’s Best Steak Pub as the website suggests.

299 Rundle Street

Adelaide SA 5000

(08) 8223 2934

Alongside, we found a restaurant pub set-up with a wide selection of meat, wine and beer. The reason why we headed for this restaurant was for the steaks that were ½ the price for members. We were awaiting some great meat tasting!

Interior of The Stag

'bird's eye view' from our table

Dinner came unusually early, as my first dinner in Adelaide. 

My usual preference would be for a medium rare when it comes to steak feasting :p The menu says Jim Barry ‘Three Little Pigs’ Shiraz/Cab/Malbec. 'The most tender of cuts' appealed to me in the menu and hence my choice!

Fillet Steak (GF)

200g Eye Fillet

The other choices on the menu were as follows:

Clare Valley Rump (GF)

South Australia’s Clare Valley region provides a temperate climate for feeding cattle. From T&R Pastoral’s feedlot these British breed cattle provide consistent tenderness and marbling insuring “standout” eating.

MSA*Certified Australian Angus Beef (GF)

300g Porterhouse

Certified Australian Angus Beef is a premium grade product fed on grain for up to 120 days. Great with a Shiraz from the Barossa Valley.uality. Great beef from the Clare deserves a great Clare Valley Shiraz, we suggest the 2009 Georges ‘Exile’.

MSA*Certified Australian Angus Beef (GF)

We decided that we could settle for some cider instead of wine. (although according to the menu, my steak deserves a tender wine to go with) Rich flavours were available for the cider choices. 

We had fruit cider kicks of Apple with strawberry kiwi, apple with strawberry and raspberry and apple with mango and passionfruit! Two out of three tasted flavourful. Apple with strawberry kiwi was all time refreshing! Not for the apple cider with strawberry and raspberry which was found to be disappointing.

A reindeer coaster which
I would like to have in a different colour!

Glenelg Beach

Our metroticket to Glenegl

We traveled to Glenelg (City-Glenelg Tramway), a delightful seaside haven suburb of Adelaide, located on the esplanade. Its convenient to get there by tram and once we hopped off, we are already on the beach! The esplanade offers also a wide range of restaurants, bars, internet cafes, ice creameries and shops. As we walk by the beach, we didn’t get an opportunity of attempting what we understand the beach to have an array of outdoor activities during summer. It was definitely a place to relax, explore and experience serenity.

tempted for seashells?

View from Glenegl's seawall

Pigeons and seagulls settling in at the green patches of Glenegl. They hovered around for food treats!

 

After a friendly visit to the Glenegl beach, we decided to splurge a little along Rundle Street. 

Rundle Mall, in the Adelaide city centre, with over 1000 of retailers, is the destination of shopping in Adelaide. I am glad to walk down Rundle Street with many boutiques and eateries. I had managed some shopping at Rundle Mall with many large Australian retailers. Rundle Street area is also one of the city’s hot spots for nightlife. However so, we didn’t manage to witness that. 

We retired as soon as the most of the shops closed at 5.30pm!

Structure spotted in the middle of Rundle Street

That didn’t stop me from having purchased some fave items :p One of the items I found at Typo, which carried my initial :O Not sure if i have missed this but I have never seen it retailed in Singapore?

shop.cottonon.com

City Trams of Adelaide Metro

The Passenger Transport InfoCentre in the city with descriptive maps and guides can be found at the corner of King William and Currie Street!

Tram @ Greenhill Road

Strolling down towards Greenhill Road, we hopped on to one of the city trams of Adelaide Metro, the city’s transport system. The tram runs between Glenegl and the Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Hindmarsh, with trips within the CBD section. Looking at it, it is pretty much easy to get around after purchasing our concessionary Metrotickets, made available from a machine in the tram.

Off to Glenelg with anticipation!

Uniquely Adelaide, South Australia

Here's how I envision my trip..

It’s Wednesday night! I’m at home and sieving my luggage to unpack whichever unnecessary for travel. (knowing that I tend to bring items that end up unused)
Pretty excited for the coming road trip down the countryside and escaping to the Adelaide Hills! I am so getting all ready for tomorrow’s trip for a relaxing discovery without any expectations of where we will be beginning with in Adelaide, the heart of South Australia.

Hudsons Coffee, Adelaide International Airport

The moment we landed at Adelaide Airport (ADL), some 8km from the centre of the city, we were tempted for our first coffee break at Hudsons Coffee at the airport. It was LT 0800 hours when we reached ADL after a transit from KL, for which we departed at 2220 hours for an outbound flight that took 8 hours 40 minutes. An average medium haul flight that didn’t promise much sleep onboard the flight. I felt comfortable after a cup of latte and headed for one of Adelaide’s Independent Taxis, taking a 15-20min drive to our destination at King William Street, Adelaide SA. 

Welcome to Adelaide

Dragging our luggages to the Taxi stand

Today we are fighting a temperature of 9-10 deg C
 though looking sunny! 

8 August 13
@ the outskirts, King William Rd

53 Knox Court, King William Road

亚洲の旅: 印度 | Asia Tour : India

Many had asked the reason why we chose Mumbai, India as our destination for holidays. Definitely, it is not a common choice for tourist like us. Little did they know that India is one of the favorite location for backpackers. I won't say that I am, or we are, backpacker. India is a country full of cultures, good and bad. A place where Buddhism and other religions met. Ajanda caves are one of the many evidences of that.

There is a need for proper planning in every trip. Unfortunately, when we arrived in Mumbai, we could hardly find any informations available to us, tourist. But special thanks to HangMing, who put in lots of effort in making this trip works and keep pushing us in discussing where to go. He did most research for the trips while i did the least =).

As posted in my FB, "If we failed to plan, we plan to fail. He, who led us in planning, led us in exploring the unfamiliar, foreign terrains." I strongly appreciate the efforts he put in. Of course, WeiPing did contribute too. Ok, I am just plain lazy. =x

We arrived Mumbai late and rested in the hotel for the night. The next morning, what caught my attention is the old buildings outside the balcony, outside our hotel. Yes, we arrived Mumbai. We couldn't stop our excitement and begin shooting photographs while waiting for our breakfast. The crows, the buildings, the sky... nothing can slipped out of our camera. *laugh* This is what happened when a group of photographers travel overseas. Don’t the building (image on the left) looks like some of the older flats we can find in Singapore?

Mumbai, to my surprise, was not as run-down nor was it prosperous as it appeared in TV shows or movie. (Remember MI:4?) It is common to see this kind of apartments (while Singapore named it 'flats') in Mumbai. We are definitely in for an amazing experience. Being the first time out of East & South East Asia, I look forward to the trip. Especially when we met with a couple of uncertainties before confirming this trip, this definitely be a good trip.

Crows are everywhere. They are like unconventional citizens of India. Making this statement is not trying to be sacarstic, this is just an observation, something i felt. The crows are not afraid of human either. In Singapore, we can often 'scare away' the crows easily. The pace in India are slow as well. The crows reflect this fact by flying rather slowly. Not exaggerating, we can see how crows fly and land, or even stay in the sky! Amazing, isn't it? That is a new experience, at least for me! =)

We stayed near Churchgate Station. Churchgate, a major railway termninus on the Western line of Mumbai Suburban Railway, was named after St. Thomas Cathedral. It is just minutes of walk from our hotel, Chateau Windsor Hotel, to the station. But the tickets to Aurangabad (our next destination) was not available in the station. Soon, we found out that we need to get the tickets in the ticketing office opposite the station....

To be continued...