Echuca, The Star Hotel It’s just on ten in the morning and at the Star Hotel and there’s an expansive bloke running around like a blue arsed, carrying on half a dozen conversations at once, advising staff on special arrangements, taking calls on his mobile and shaking hands with some early starters. His name’s Paul Jarman and he’s got ten minutes to spare, “if we’re lucky’. Paul was ‘born into hospitality’, probably, I’m guess about 50 odd years ago. His father ran the pub down in Rochester but in his twenties Paul headed overseas, working in Paris and London before coming back to Echuca at the turn of the century to raise his kids. A self-described, ‘river man’, he’s done the full length of the Murray in a tinny. It took him just over three years off and on and he managed a drink, he guesses in “98% of the pubs”. The trip convinced him of his connection to the river and the pubs convinced him of his desire to own one. In 2009 along with another loc