My memories of Santos are high-school sports days and shitting myself at Little Athletic…read morecompetitions. Because it is like a real sporting stadium, you feel famous (and extremely intimidated) for the whole 5 minutes you are competing. The equipment is good quality. The turf is good, the javelin and discus ring is good and so is the long jump pit. Definitely the best athletics venue in Adelaide. It is always amazing competing here in contrast to your home ground. One thing I have to say about Santos is that it gets stinking hot. Not just a bit hot, absolutely boiling. I remember one day I was competing the track got up to 45 degrees and there is very little shade. The stands are quite large and all under shelter (thank-god) but the seats definitely aren't the most comfortable!

Santos Stadium is where little athletics and all things SAPSASA have their moment of fame. I have…read moreplayed a few cup rounds here for soccer and it's home to a pretty decent pitch. A pretty wide pitch too from memory. There is a dated yet efficient grand slams, fairly good members areas and change room. Overall an efficient athletic venue for all sorts of track and field events. There is also a substantial amount of parking however it can be a little bit of a maze when trying to find the entrance... especially if you're coming in from the city, and are driving over the bridge on Sir Donald Bradman Drive. If this is the case then chuck a right down Railway Terrace and keep your eyes peeled for the entrance. Otherwise perhaps get your GPS out. You don't want to miss your game. Believe me.

This is the cricket stadium, there was a Guns N' Roses concert here last night. Although they are…read morecleaning up, we went inside and visited the museum and saw the model of the overall stadium & small museum. There were many bars, a cafe & small gift shop. It's a few steps from the railway station & downtown district.

Holy crap this place is big…read more This is the first stadium I've been to in Australia and I am unaccustomed to the level of civility demonstrated here. First of all, either my memory is crap or I completely missed the weapons check area. I did see a pair of gentlemen get pat downs but the security pat-downers completely skipped me. Did I have to opt-in for that? Also, I had trouble scanning my ticket and no one yelled at me. They just politely sent me to another nearby ticket checker. There was no frustrated sighing or wild gesticulations. Just actual helpfulness from a people who didn't seem bothered by my existence. We had tickets to really amazing seats down at field level but again, I'm not from here and have lots of trauma from missing entire eons of game play from standing in beer lines, so my most beloved went for beer. He left and came back with still plenty of game left so I can only imagine there an efficient beer vending system the likes of which I've never seen. At one point, someone gestured to me to notice the absolute pyschos seated in the uppermost part of the stadium. I don't know who is more daring: the people who chose to watch the game from there or the people who designed that area. Lovely venue, great field, lovely security, and very well maintained. So orderly and pretty it could very well be mistaken for a figment of my imagination.

Since 1958 when it was first opened the Richmond Oval, and now more recently the City Mazda Stadium…read morehas been the home to the Bloods. The Bloods are the West Adelaide football club and if you don't know Australian culture, well this is what is is mostly - a game of football with a lot of people yelling for their team. The oval hasn't really changed a lot since back in the day. The facility is pretty good the grass is nice and compact; well looked after. Elements of the place have a nice historic feel to it, but I don't personally like all the red and black painted on the little deli or the walls, which is unfortunate because that's the team colours so it isn't going to change. The Bloods treat it well, they have a lot of training going on and various age groups gather to play the game in the hope that they will one day be big time heroes of the game. You can rest assured it is not directly connected with The Venue - part of the football club's home office, but it is... they are two separate things but they share the same bit of land. The football club is only a tenant on the land in reality. It could change in the future just like the name.

It surprisingly took me a while to actually come and check this place out, namely because it is the…read moregrounds where my football team trains. I wouldn't necessarily consider it to be a pilgrimage, but it is still worth checking out, particularly if you happen to follow this particular team (despite the fact that the crosstown rivalry here tends to get pretty intense at times). Anyway, this is certainly interesting, and what is cool is that you can actually walk across the oval, and even play on it, unless of course it is being used for other purposes, such as training. However, it still certainly works well, and is much more open than some of the other grounds out there.