South Australia: Adelaide

WomAdelaide I think falls in that time frame, or the Fringe, so maybe walk Rundle Mall, there will be performers doing their acts.
If you don't hang around too long each act, you don't have to pay.
Yes, the Botanical Gardens is good, walkable, as Adelaide CBD is flat(tish) only with a slight hill going towards St Peters Cathedral North Adelaide.
Maybe the Adelaide Zoo?
Or take a bus or train up to Belair Conservation Park in the Hills?
Trip on the tram to Glenelg.
$30 of the Adelaide Metrocard Adult non concession can last maybe 7 days, there is not a weekly pass, but that $30 will reduce slowly per use.
Get one from the Adelaide Metrocard office on the corner of King William and Currie St. You do pay an amount to buy the ticket, there is the option of paying cash per trip on the buses, but you only get a papery ticket for this, and this paper ticket last more than 2 hours, daytrip last all day, but with each insert into reader this can bend and make the magnetic strip unreadable.
Adelaide Metrocard, you just tap, it warns you when your "funds" are low.
Aud$3.48 for times before 9am, and after 3pm, or Aud$1.91 off peak, 9am to 3pm, each ride last 2 hours, Sat all priced $3.48, Sun all priced $1.91. Reach from Gawler in the north to Seaford in the South, from the sea to Mt Barker in the Hills.
Good for Mon to Sun trips.
There is a monthly 28 day pass, but as you are only here for 21 days, up to you to get the monthly pass, or per use ticket.
Private bus wine tasting further out, either up Gawler or down Sellicks way.
Beerenberg?
Kangaroo Island?
Fly to Port Lincoln for shark cage diving? $$$.

The tram is free between North and South Terraces, and to West Terrace. Good to use to get around, from these terraces, to Victoria Sq then not too far from the Central Markets.
There are also the 99 and 98A/98C buses that ply the CBD and North Adelaide, these 3 are free too.
Chinatown Adelaide is small/tinky compared to other places.
Rundle Street is worth maybe half an hour to an hour to walk.
Really, Adelaide has not much of the blah big pahlooza sort of attractions that will take away your whole day.
Nothing except Gloria Jeans/Hudsons count as coffee shops.
Wait till you get here, its a small dowager old unmarried spinster city, this place Adelaide.
No big wow factor.
Cheap, yes, wow factor, zilch.

If you're in Adelaide and looking for a weekend excursion, then check out Hahndorf in the Adelaide Hills. It's a weird sort of theme park town, celebrating the history & culture of the German immigrants who settled there in the mid 19th century. Very touristy, with lederhosen-clad oompah bands playing in the main street on a Saturday morning. But if you like good beer, sausage, pork knuckle, smallgoods and cheese, then it's not to be missed - go there for lunch at least, if not an entire day. Should be very pretty in late March/April.

as well as the many other suggestions (a strange definition of 'nothing to see'!) good walking and great views at Mount Lofty, and Cleland Wildlife Park is also excellent.

Fleurieu Peninsula is beautiful.

plenty of great advice given above.
personally, one of my favourite places in australia is kangaroo island, so i would totally go there on a weekend trip. if you are driving, the fleurieu peninsula is indeed beautiful and its worth spending a day "on the way" between adelaide and before you take the ferry over to ki.

Agree with the post about Hahndorf, its great, you can get a bus trip out there. If you like wine, Adelaide is home to the national wine centre of Australia which makes a fun visit. You can also visit surrounding vineyards at the Barossa or further afield in Clare. Central market is a cool place to hang out and a cheap place to eat.

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