Rundle Mall / Street, Adelaide

If you have a wife or girlfriend in tow, how can you miss Rundle Street Mall. It's Adelaide city's main shopping drag and on the eastern end of Rundle Street and Frome Street is the great cafe and food district of Adelaide. There are numerous cheap eats to be found here. For pizzas and pasta, try the Amalfi...the Marinara pasta was excellent although i found their signature pepper and salt calamari abit too overrated and small in portion.

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Every Saturday there is a market place set up on Rundle street. Rundle street is well known for its restaurants and El fresco dining. There is around a 100 stores selling a variety of items from jewellery to take away Indian food. Its not a bargain shopping kind of fete but rather caters to the unique with many of the items handmade or locally produced. There are also permanent stores lining the street, several of them selling travelling and camping goods. Paddy Pallins is my favourite but there is also Kathmandu, the scout shop and Annapurna. Rundle street connects at one end to Rundle Mall, which is the main city shopping area, and at the other end too the Adelaide park lands.

The market is open Every Saturday – 9am – 3pm

This large mural on the corner of Frome Street and Rundle Street was first painted in the 80's and then was redone, with several artistes contributing to it to give a sightly new futuristic theme in the 1998. Carol Ruff and Barbary O'Brien painted the original mural in 1984. The theme of the piece was the link between the older and younger generation through play. The new version includes symbol-isms of Adelaide heritage such as the Mt Lofty towers and up dated graffitied canvas school bags that so many Adelaide's school kids use. In the newer version the old man's ice cream has melted to show there has been a space of time.
I was sixteen when the first mural was painted and I always enjoyed seeing it. It was a reminder of that time in my life. As I got older it remained the same except it had faded a little. When it was painted over in 1998 I was very disappointed and felt a loss but today the 1998 version has taken it place and again has become something special to me. I not only enjoy the present mural but also remember what lays beneath it.

Another Rundle Street landmark. These two shiny stainless steel spheres sitting on top of each other has been a famous meeting place in Adelaide. When they say "Let's meet at The Spheres", it's well understood.

In the middle of Rundle Street Mall there are these public art statues of 4 cheeky little pigs (Horatio, Truffles, Augusta and Oliver) rummaging around a garbage bin. These statues have become the " Mannequin Pis" of Adelaide taking the shine off that other famous landmark at the Mall, "The Sphere"

Here is the Rundle street withe the Rundle mall. A big carfree shoppingstreet. It is nice to bee there, a lot to see too. You can buy delicous fresh fruit drinks in one of the small shops on the square.

Rundle Mall often has buskers performing for the etertainment of the crowds, and of course, to make a little money.
It makes a pleasant break from the hard work of shopping at the major stores that also front the mall.

Rundle Mall for city shopping is the place to be. Down this tree-lined mall are about 750 stores and shops and is the most concentrated shopping area in the Southern Hemisphere. It includes major department stores, shopping arcades and centres, as well a many top names and small boutiques. On the top of one of the malls, there is some kind of little train running around the roof.

You can buy anything, from a fresh apple from one of the outside fruit and vegetable stalls to the latest designer outfit 7 days a week, with Sunday shopping between 11am and 5pm.