Love letters to Adelaide

My boyfriend and I are moving to Bristol next year. After making our way slowly across Europe and the UK for 2 months, we’ll be settling into our Airbnb in Bristol and slowly starting our new life there. But before we embark on that adventure, we have less than a year left in Adelaide. I’ve lived in Adelaide for 14 years and while I believe I’ve collected a sufficient amount of memories, I also believe that I haven’t utilised the city and the state to the best of their abilities. I’m quite big on nostalgia, so I would hate to leave the country and become resentful that I didn’t so as much as I could have before we left.

Before turning this blog into a documentation of our travels and the process that will come with it, this blog will first and foremost be a my love letters to Adelaide. As we explore our city even more in our short time left in the country, I’ll be documenting everything we do and see in hopes that my love for Adelaide will stay in mine (and your) hearts forever.

I have started a bucket list of things I want to do in and around Adelaide before we jet off to the other side of the world. It includes things like camping the Great Ocean Road with my girlfriends and some new friends, having a picnic at Mount Osmond and going to the Hahndorf Farm Barn. I guess I want to romanticise the rest of our time here instead of constantly putting things off that I’ve wanted to do for years with the promise of doing it later. Soon there won’t be a later. I also don’t want to spend the whole of next year just working to save for our trip and never making the effort to take ourselves out and try something fun. Not that working all year will be boring, it’s very important if we don’t want to starve when we’re travelling. But I mean in a way of pushing myself to go out and do things with friends or Nick (my boyfriend) after work or on my days off instead of just doing nothing at home. My rest and relaxation is very important to me don’t get me wrong, but I don’t want to look back on my last year in Adelaide and get resentful towards myself because I couldn’t be bothered to turn off Stardew Valley and go for a walk. And thus why I started writing my bucket list. My list is a mixture of solo activities, dates and group activities with my friends, but it’s also things that I’ve been wanting to try for the last 5 years and never have.

By documenting this travel process and bucket list in my blog, I’m hoping to keep myself accountable for making memories here in Adelaide and Australia that I will look back on for the rest of my life. So until I have a travel or bucket list update, farewell and happy holidays. :))