Adelaide & Train to Alice Springs

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Not much to write here as we only stayed for one night. We arrived here in the evening from our tour of the Great Ocean Road and checked into our hostel, Cannon Street which was ok, managed to get our own room again.

The first thing we noticed about Adelaide was how quiet it was in comparison to Sydney and Melbourne. We went out for some food and considering it was Saturday night there seemed to be noone around. We ended up going for a quiet drink with a nice French couple we had met on our tour.

Sunday was no better, Martin was feeling ill all day, fortunately it was a quick 24 hour bug, although he still managed to get to the pub to watch an Arsenal game, typical.

So, off we went in the afternoon to the train station to catch our train to Alice Springs. The train is called the Ghan after the Afghan Camels that were used to travel this route years before trains were introduced here. It was a great way to travel after being on the buses. The journey was 19 hours overnight so we managed to have a sleep. We'd highly recommend this mode of transport to anyone thinking of taking the same route, plus it works out cheaper than the bus.

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Photos

The Ghan Train
Just boarding..

Crossing the border
South Australia into the Northern Territory

Good morning..
... welcome to the Northern Territory

Comments

[Dan]

AVE IT!!!!!
Arsenal 2 – West Ham United 3 You sure you want to come back!!! Enjoy your travels mate, keep blogging.