Position 34 53.32S  138 37.6E

We are about 6 km from the centre of Adelaide.  Small city with University right in the middle.  The central part is surrounded by parks.  All laid out by a gentleman called Colonel William Light, he was fired because he didn’t build the city fast enough.  Early Europeans ‘free settlers’ begun to arrive in 1836.  South are proud of the fact not descended from convicts.  They also got on very well with the local aboriginals and in the early paintings you see Europeans mixing with aboriginals at the races, in the countryside and in ‘high’ streets.  It was only later when demand for land increased that conflict started.  In places like New South Wales and Tasmania it was outright war when the colonists first landed and a lot of rarely mentioned massacres took place. 

In Australia, Haig’s makes fine chocolates equivalent to Thornton’s or Hotel Chocolate.  We went to the visitor centre – just missed the tour.  The chocolates were mega expensive, so we bought some seconds.  Very, very sweet.  All the guidebooks say you must visit.  Don’t bother, although it says visitor centre it’s basically a shop with a couple of windows overlooking chocolate making area.