Adelaide - Saturday Woken quite early by a shaft of brilliant sunshine streaming straight onto the bed through a chink in the curtains - our room faces due east. A sign of what the day would be like. By 10am, when we ventured outside, the temperature was already 37 degrees. Baking, but fortunately a dry heat. Too hot really but who can complain knowing how cold it is back home! Took a stroll through Central Market - an enormous market, around the size of two fo...

Started with day with brekkie in The Haus, the same German style café we ate in last night which is part of the hotel, then headed off into the Adelaide Hills not quite knowing where we were going as we had a few hours to kill before our meeting this afternoon. Started by taking the Onkaparinga Valley road out of Hahndorf and then turned left up Cudlee Creek Road towards Tea Tree Gully. I just love these names! Cudlee Creek seems aptly named as there is a wildl...

Robe is definitely a town you could spend more than a night in. Really liked the character of it. Took a drive around the other side of the harbour after checking out of the hotel this morning - our room had faced out onto the park with its open air barbie area and the harbour beyond. A road loops around the headland beyond the harbour. Glorious views of the open ocean. Right at the top are the ruins of the old town gaol and also an obelisk from which rockets wer...

Have to start with breakfast at Oscars, our hotel in Port Fairy. Excellent. And really set us up for the day - two fried eggs, a generous couple of pieces of crispy bacon, mushrooms, incredibly flavoursome tomatoes and a dollop of spinach. The latter didn't seem right as a breakfast accompaniment to start off with, but it was really good. Thank you Sally Anne for the recommendation. While we were having breakfast a wallaby hopped its way at great speed along the...