YOU KNOW CROISSANTS ARE important to a small town when no less than three artisan bakers serve its 1542 residents. Robe, on South Australia’s limestone-clawed coast, takes its flaky French pastries seriously – they’re usually sold out before noon. Demand may have something to do with the 15,000 visitors it greets each summer, though I suspect locals are generally at the front of the queue.
Well-placed Robe is about 335 kilometres from Adelaide, 520 kilometres from Melbourne and only a 40-minute drive from the cattle farm where I
