I was born 45-50 minutes north of Adelaide CBD. Lived here most of my life. Love it.
Yeah, that's the oval on the left, the foot bridge ahead that leads over the Torrens to the hotels and casino, convention centre etc. They have done a lot of redevelopment around the around the area...It's going to be very cool.
As a kid, my family emigrated from the UK to live in a small town called Macclesfield, South East of Adelaide up in the hills. Haven't been back to Australia since we left over 25 years ago - one day I'll return!
The spot that picture is taken must be very close to where my Dad pulled a young lad out of the river one afternoon. We were coming out from the cricket and he'd fallen in while those who were supposed to be looking after him had their backs turns. Shame they didn't leave a plaque there to commemorate the occasion! Something along the lines of here lies the spot where a Pommie bastard saved the life of an Australian 😀
Ah yeah I've been there a few times. Nice place to grow up I'd say.
That's a cool story about your dad and should have made headlines...Something along the lines of:
Poms lose cricket, but one saves the day for Aussie child!
😂
Ok, they may not have lost the cricket that day.
Well we weren't losing at the Adelaide Oval on that day but it was the 1990s so you can be fairly safe in assuming that somewhere in the world we were losing to someone!
Lol...That's the way it goes huh? These days somewhere in the world the Aussie cricket team are probably cheating! Lol.