Monday 27th: Left Warrnambool after ten in the morning and arrived at the Picadilly Apartments in North Adelaide at 7.30. Long journey. My first option was to get a bus to Arrat and from there to get the overland train to Adelaide, but there was no train on Monday or back on Thursday. I took my time driving and stopped twice for an hour and 30 mins respectively. 
The long stop was in Robe: a charming fishing port that was once a major gateway for new arrivals to South Australia. In particular during the Gold rushes of the Mid nineteenth century the State of Victoria charged an entry tax on Chinese (only) to discourage them. It did nothing of the sort. Over 16,000 of them landed at Robe which is in South Austalia and walked up to 600 Kms to the Bendigo, Ballarat and other goldfields. 
First impressions of Adelaide are how British it looks, how many gardens it has and the wide streets. Traffic moves and they have trams but no hook turns like Melbourne.
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