We stopped in Adelaide on day 2 of our train journey for a 2 hour bus tour while the train was victualing. We discovered it is a charming Victorian city with very advanced planning ideas. Wide avenues with large houses are all facing outwards from the centre, towards the parks. The proposal to build the city was sanctioned by the Duke of Wellington when he was Prime Minister and interestingly South Australia was the only colony that didn't accept transported convicts from England or Ireland to do the manual labour and infrastructure building. So when the City was planned it was settled by wealthy non-conformist Brits whose legacy today is a well ordered city with carefully designed broad boulevards, all on a grid system. Wellington was a bit peeved that it wasn't named after him, but the planner, Colonel William Light, wanted to honour William VI's wife, Queen Adelaide. However, they did name a park after Wellington. A little known fact is that when a street is named after the monarch, as is King William Street in Adelaide, then any street intersecting it must have a different name for each side. It was not considered proper for a street with a commoner's name (for example) to "cross over" a royal street, so the former has to be given another name if it continues the other side. Check this out where you live. We think it is the same for the Kings Road in London. All this and more we learned from the bus driver. Not bad that we actually recalled some of it.