I found this meme and liked this week’s topic so I thought I would do it. The topic is ‘10 Things You Love About Your City’. So… here we go!

10 things I love about Adelaide

1. Sitting by the River Torrens on a beautiful day, watching the ducks swimming, joggers running past, and other people on the banks enjoying the day.

2. A 10-minute drive out of the city takes you into the peaceful hills, but you’re by no means isolated.

3. There are so many towns that are within easy driving distance, so there are plenty of places to go for day trips.

4. The beaches. There are some absolutely gorgeous beaches down south. Glenelg is nice because there are people around and it’s nice to get a coffee or an ice cream, but for beautiful, clean beaches with crystal clear water and pristine yellow sand, Moana is the place to go. At least, it was the last time I went there!

5. My house. I love where I live - I can hear the birds singing, koalas making those weird pig-like noises they make, there are great places to go walking (as long as you don’t get lost), and the surrounding suburbs are relatively untouched by daggy fast food chains. I’m still close to everything though!

6. Rundle Mall (the main shopping area in the CBD). It’s small, but familiar. I like walking around there on Sunday afternoons with M, and doing all our regular ‘town stuff’, like looking at the pets and getting a coffee and cake.

7. The traffic (ok, it’s not something I technically love) - it’s getting worse, but it is so much easier to drive around here than it is in bigger cities like Sydney.

8. The number of people - I don’t think I’d be able to handle living in a really densely-populated city. You can wander around here without people constantly underfoot, and I like it that way. And being a not-particularly-touristy city, you don’t have periods where everywhere is swarming with tourists.

9. I love flying back to Adelaide at night, trying to recognise the main roads as I’m coming in to land, and watching all the tiny cars driving along with their lights on.

10. It just feels like home - when I went to Brisbane, which I thought was a lot like Adelaide, it just felt as though I was in a suburb of Adelaide that I didn’t know. And I liked that.

What do you love about your city?