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Riverbank notes

Longer pieces that do not fit on a fact page: how we would plan a festival fortnight, a cricket week in December, and how a 1920s railway station became a hotel precinct.

Illustration: night-time arts festival in a park with lit tents and string lights
Illustration, not a photograph of the hotel.

The rest of this guide is built to be scanned. These notes are for reading with a coffee. Each one is dated, and each one uses the same rule as everything else here: facts from named sources, opinions clearly ours.

Fringe and Festival nights

How to plan a week when the Adelaide Fringe and the Adelaide Festival overlap, from a hotel next to the Festival Centre. Read the note.

A December Test match stay

Five days of cricket across the river, Christmas menus in the precinct and two Strikers nights to follow. Read the note.

From railway station to Riverbank

The sandstone station of 1928, the casino of 1985 and the hotel of 2020, told from the sources. Read the note.

Have an idea for a note, or spotted something we should correct? Write to hello@riverbankadelaide.com.

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