Adelaide The Art, Wine and Religion!
- Two's Company
- Oct 15, 2025
- 3 min read
Today’s feast of activities began with a visit to the South Australia National Art gallery. It’s an interesting place with works from around the world, a new exhibition Too Deadly: Ten Years of Tarnanthi is opening on Friday created by Indigenous people, unfortunately we will have left and will miss that opportunity.
Nevertheless, there were some enthralling works and some that made you really think and some that made you think, really?!
I was enthralled by the particular piece above, it is called The Promise II by Julie Gough. The suspended inverted chair with cut-outs stands for a period during Tasmania’s Black War and is called “Black Line” the period was in the 1830s.
The best art is often the work that stops you in your tracks and forces you to confront difficult history or ideas. So, we lost a couple of hours wandering the gallery rooms letting ourselves be intrigued, challenged and enjoying the moment, trying to understand concepts and meanings and of course not getting it some of the time!
Onward to our next stop, excited by the prospect of sampling a few glasses of that special grape juice we call wine! The National Wine Centre was in the end not quite what we expected, to be honest we were left feeling a little flat and most definitely dry mouthed. No welcome, no explanation, just an arrow to self-guided tour, ignored was more the feeling.
While we did see the open wine cellar and some of the 38000 bottles that could be stored, that was essentially all we experienced.
Disappointed, we left sober but not to worry, we headed to the Cathedral of Saint Peter a short distance away. The weather was kind, sun high in the sky a pleasant 19 degrees and another stroll to revisit the botanic garden’s “Amazon Water Lily” house which we missed due to our poor timing the evening before.
Sitting by the river was lovely as we ate a lunch of croissant, mini muffin cakes and apples … shhh we won’t mention where from, in any case it was pleasant watching the world go meandering past.
The cathedral was set to close in 30 minutes, a fact we discovered only by chance when mapping the rest of our route. Lunch was over and off we went not disappointed at all to discover a lovely cathedral.
One of the curators was enthusiastic to show a rock embedded in the wall which came from Westminster Abbey.
Next stop the other place of worship just a few hundred yards down the road… What a sight, the scale was impressive, the surrounding esplanade so huge that it could cater for 53,500 worshippers of the great game cricket, we do not have to mention Australian Rules Football also, do we?
The statue of “the “Legend Donald Bradman” was nothing less than thrilling to see. Arghhh cricket…!
After all that, there was one last thing … a roof top terrace, a bar with a ‘view’ of course and there it stood in all its glory “The Adelaide Oval”
We’ve had a cracking, informative time in Adelaide but now for Two’s Company, our itchy feet mean it’s time to move, our next stop, Auckland, New Zealand.
Cheers 🍻
Adelaide sounds Warm, Welcoming and Inspiring..a homely feel I'm gathering, including the weather...and yet..so very different. A sense of inclusive pride in itself, and confidence, that sadly, in many ways we seem to have lost here..with our own ancient history. We seem to be encouraged to disown our sense of pride in who we are, at times...yet we are indelibley linked across that great expanse of ocean and history. Adelaide looks beautiful...apart from the lack of a glass of wine to tase at The National Wine Centre. ☹️..bit of the warm spirit missing there..😄 Never mind..😁 on to the next part of your exploration, in New Zealand..Where are you now I ask myself 😂 Cheers my dears! 🥂🥰🥰 loving the…