The festival city.
Adelaide is know as the festival city and I arrived in town at just the right time – March is the main month for festivals. I’ve heard lots about Adelaide being a dull city with nothing to do, but hell if the list of events going on is anything to go on this city is anything but boring.
Kicking things off at the end of February would be the International Film Festival with lots of cool releases playing all around the city. Then from the 1st – 4th March was the Clipsal 500 motorsport spectacular. The following weekend sees one of the best music festivals in the world WOMADelaide and the Fringe festival completes a pretty amazing line up of event to keep the masses happy.
I arrived at the weekend so I chilled for a few days. I made some calls about harvest work but there was nothing locally so I packed up Monday morning to go south for a job picking apples. Just before I checked out I called again and was put through to a grape picking job south of the city. Promised work I booked another week at the hostel delighted to be able to stay for the Clipsal V8 supercars. Things did not quite work out though and I didn’t work at all, just had a week off.
It was great though, there was a real good bunch of people at the hostel and with the V8′s coming up that weekend I had a blast. Went for bike rides around the parks and along the river, played soccer in the dark – even scored the winning goal in extra-time and just hung out have fun. The V8 festival was great. There was an awesome line-up for entertainment after the racing action finished. Over the four days Eskimo Joe, Spiderbait, Thirsty Merc, Rouge Traders, You am I, Evermore and others played. Even going to see these acts made the whole event worth the money!