After a thoroughly enjoyable journey on The Ghan, we arrived in Adelaide, picked up a car and headed for our new B&B, Vale House. This place is the earliest surviving colonial residence in Adelaide, built sometime before 1840. It has been converted to luxury heritage accommodation and is currently listed with the National Trust. An interesting place to stay! Our deck wraps around two sides of the room. Sitting outside on the deck for breakfast, we saw a flash of colour as two rainbow lorikeets came swishing by. They are gorgeous multi-coloured birds we always see in pairs. The car, a Toyota Corolla, is very interesting. We're used to driving on the left hand side of the road now, but in this one the turn signal arm is on the right hand side of the steering wheel and the windshield wiper control arm is on the left. So how many times do you think Mal went to turn a corner or change lanes and flipped on the wipers? OK, so we've lost count, but it'll get better!
On our first full day here we looked around downtown Adelaide and spent some interesting time in the Migration Museum learning about the history of the European settlers and their impact on the Aboriginal people of the area. On our second day, we drove to Glenelg, a little seaside town where we walked the promenade along the beach and looked in their Discovery Centre. It was an overcast day and even sprinkled a bit. We found more interesting local stories about people and events. Then we drove to a little German town called Hahndorf for an ethnic lunch and some (oh joy, oh joy) shopping.
Now we head for the Grampians to do a little hiking in a more remote area in the state of Victoria. This will be the fifth state we will have visited. By the time we have finished our tour here, we will have been in six of the seven states in Australia. No grass growing under our feet.
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