Private Fashion Show

A bit damp this morning – I think we brought the rain with us, as South Australia is actually the driest state in Australia.


We pottered around the shops again in the morning, and then met up for lunch. After that we visited the Migrants Museum.


Adelaide is different to Melbourne and Sydney in that you don’t see a lot of Italians and Greeks, nowhere near as cosmopolitan as the other bigger cities. The amazing thing we saw at the Museum was the criteria that immigrants had to meet until around 1960 – you had to be a white European for a start. They made potential immigrants do a dictation test, and the language was up to the officers – could be Hungarian, Spanish, never mind that the immigrant didn’t speak that language.

After that, we started on a trail of events to get us to dinner at Glenelg (by the sea). Talk about best laid plans! We got on a tram for what should have been a 45 minute ride - we’d booked dinner and planned a walk along the beach first. Well, we got one block of our tram ride before it stopped because of an accident at the next intersection. No problem, we thought, we’ll pop back to the hotel for a pre-dinner drink and try again later. So off we went at 5.15. The guy at the tram stop told us we could pick up a tram on the other side of the accident site – a few blocks up. Got there to be told the tram would be along in a few minutes. Half an hour later – no tram, but Janet had got talking to a lady on the platform who’d given her the lowdown on the local restaurants. She recommended one called Auge, which was nearby so we changed plans and went there. It was to die for – Italian food, lovely surroundings and supreme service, and the blokes nearly had a heart attack when they saw the bill too! Anyway, it was a wonderful night.


We ambled home via a ‘lantern’ – a building lit up in changing colours which was quite stunning. Then back down Rundle Mall, and we stumbled upon a dress rehearsal for a fashion show opening in the Mall on Friday. So there we are standing in the rain watching these slinky models strutting their stuff.

All in all, not your usual night out, but a lot of fun was had by all.