Friday 23rd Feb:

We were soooo tired when we arrived in Adelaide at about 9 in the morning after our mammoth journey. We got a taxi to the greyhound station to leave our luggage there while we wasted the day in Adelaide before our bus journey at 8pm. Unfortunately our luggage wouldn't fit in the lockers!!! no surprises there. We therefore decided to find a pub to spend the day in and take our luggage with us. We had to drag it through the busy market which was very funny as dodging people the entire time and men shouting out 'two for a dollar' as we wheeled through the crowds. We were recommended a pub called 'Aces Bar' which was sort of in the market square (which was inside).

We got there and it was full of seedy men who looked as though they hadn't seen a female in about 50 years, and we weren't exactly looking our best so they were pretty desperate to say the least! However, the pub itself was actually really nice and turned out to be our saviour.....

The manager saw us with our luggage and offered to keep them in his office for us and after explaining our situation he said we could keep them in there all day which was so kind. We had a really nice chicken parmigana for lunch - that favourite again! The barmen told us some really good places to go out in Melbourne and Adelaide and said we should stay in Adelaide and one of the ba men, Andrew said he would take us out. After our meal we went to the park and decided to stay in Adelaide two nights as we really liked it. So we changed our bus time to Sunday night at 8pm and booked ourselves into the 'Blue Galah' hostel which another barman had recommended to us.

We went back to the bar to get our luggage and Enzo - the manager honed the hostel and booked us our nights there and his wife printed us off a map, they were so helpful and gave us a pen and magnets as a souvenir of us going there.

We had to walk to the hostel which is quite a trek especially when you have two massive bags in tow, a cooler bag and two handbags. Wish we hadn't packed that extra book now! (Barb and Bri) Glad to see some buildings though, and people....... that smelt nice!

Hostel was really nice and homely, a lot of Germans but unfortunately our GCSE went out the window as didn't get much of a chance to chat to them, they were very private and only mixed with other Germans. We were so glad to climb into a comfy bed and no one was in our room so again we had it to ourselves which was really nice.