To the Grampians
This covers the first day of our trip to Adelaide. Despite spending a few minutes - while eating breakfast, so really multi-tasking - watching the recording of the Giro going round Naples we dropped the garage door just before 0800 hrs and headed off. As usual our Satnav, Polly (named after Connie Booth's character in Fawlty Towers) began by trying to send us up Angophora (NOT going to happen in the Jetta) and then back through the town centre. She got the idea when we headed to Karbeethong. At this point our anticipated time of arrival was 1640 hrs. I will add in a comment that in the past when I have looked at trip times in Google Maps etc the average speeds they have used off freeways were appallingly slow. So I am hopeful of getting there a tad quicker than this. The weather was fairly average to begin with, but started to clear up by Genoa. The roadworks at Drummer were still evident but did look to have progressed since w...