Australia: how we spent 40 days in Adelaide

One month and eight days. That’s the time we spent in Adelaide. It’s longer than our previous exchange program to study English in Canada. It’s longer than our visit to Brazil last September. It’s a long time even for the standard of those traveling around the world.

We arranged this experience back in August when we were in California. After traveling for more than 20 cities in our first months in North America, we felt we should slow our pace in Australia. Moving around frequently is good, but it also sums our lives into a mix of packing and sleeping in buses.

And that’s how we’ve ended up living for almost 40 days in the same home.

We spent Christmas and New Year there, and we saw summer hit the country with all its force. We learned how to find our bearings without the need for a GPS, we got used to the store’s timetable, and we knew which products were on sale at each supermarket. We cooked like crazy: pastries, pizzas, Brazilian Brigadeiro, cakes, nut’s pie, popsicles, gnocchi… how many things can we cook when buying a package of flour is not a problem for later? We spent entire days at home, we watched four seasons of a tv show, and we read three books each.

Obviously, our main goal is getting to know as many places in the world as possible, but ‘living’ in a place for a while added to our curriculum. We developed a fondness for Adelaide that has nothing to do with the beauty of the place and the high livability of the city. Instead, our love for the city has to do with the feeling of belonging. In a way, we felt, truly, as locals.

See you soon, Adelaide! Thank you for everything!