Great excitement when I arrived in Adelaide - I had an Australian flag duvet cover - how cool is that! I also had plastic sheets which weren't quite so cool as you make a racket everytime you moved - but hey you can't have it all!

First impressions of Adelaide : it's cold, so cold in fact that I have had to go out and buy some cheap ballet pumps and a pair of wooly tights! Moving onto the town itself, well it's really pretty and has character - it's a university town so has old buildings, shopping malls and a lovely art gallery.

On the first day we visited the 'Migration Museum' which started it's life as one of the dreaded mission schools established to educate aborigine children taken from their families. The object was to train them to become domestic servants or labourers for the Europeans, but by the 1850's it was becoming apparent that they were all returning to their communities after their education thereby defeating the object of its existence. So the school closed down and the building took on an equally ominous role as a destitute asylum for immigrants unable to work, unmarried mothers, deserted wives, abandoned children, the aged and the sick. As you walked around the museum and read about their daily lives it was all very sad .

I also visited the art gallery, which was good, but probably the most memorable thing were 2 people who can best be described as 'trailer trash' - they kept touching the art so had a security guard permanently shadowing them, they shouted when talking despite standing next to each other and, whilst on their mobile phone, shared with the whole gallery the fact that they were in town to get their dentures fixed - lovely! Maybe Adelaide is full of people like this because as I waited for my bus to the airport the following day I was joined by a strange women who had an interesting fashion sense, claimed to be an insomniac and was waiting for a bus to go and see her boyfriend in jail!

I had a couple of nights out in Adelaide and this is where I said goodbye to Trine who I've been travelling with since Perth - almost 6 weeks together!