I got to Adelaide on the Indian Pacific railway line, which runs from Perth to Sydney. It takes 3 days to do the whole thing, but I was only going to be on it for 2 days, as the train was full between Adelaide and Sydney.<\/p>\n
The journey started with me having to get a replacement bus service between the station that I should have set off from and the station that the Indian Pacific train left from. This was slightly off the main train and bus routes, so instead of getting a train from the main train station to the Indian Pacific one, I had to get a bus and a train instead, as the main train station was closed.<\/p>\n
Once on the train, I met Wayne, who I ended up talking to for most of the journey. He was 66 and lived on a caravan park south of Perth and was interested in broadcasting and contemporary country music. He had served in the military (air force) and was going to see some ex-work mates in Sydney. Compared to some of the other people in the carriage, I was very lucky to sit next to Wayne, as the people on the journey were one of the reasons I was quite glad to get off.<\/p>\n
In Adelaide I spoke to the people on the information desk who gave me a map and a list of hostels in the city. I found details of the one that someone else on the train had recommended and made my way there by tram and on foot. Once there I checked-in and spent most of the rest of the day sorting out my onward travel arrangements.<\/p>\n
The next day was spent going to the Migration Museum, which I enjoyed and going to the Botanical Gardens. I got here a bit late and got locked-in, having to climb over a wall to get out. I was going to climb over the gate, but a middle-aged woman was on hand to suggest that climbing over the wall was much easier (and safer). On the other side I had a kebab and a few beers in a nice-looking bar, before heading back to the hostel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I got to Adelaide on the Indian Pacific railway line, which runs from Perth to Sydney. It takes 3 days to do the whole thing, but I was only going to be on it for 2 days, as the train was full between Adelaide and Sydney. The journey started with me having to get a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world-part-1"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":862,"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions\/862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}