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The adventures continue…and come to and end

Tuesday 16th Dec 2025 – Although our time here is coming to an end we are determined to still continue exploring and make the most of it. So today we decided to explore nearer home with the Wodi Wodi hike in the Illawarra region. The weather was a bit hazy so we didn’t want to […]

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The Blue Mountains – Not Really a Cycling Blog!

Wednesday 26 Nov – Wednesday 3 Dec 25 This is not really a cycling-related blog, but continues our travel diary. Our Home Exchange hosts’ son let us borrow his car during our stay in Australia and up until now we’d only used for grocery shopping. We bundled our bikes and bags into the back of […]

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Husky and Austi

Friday 7th November 2025 – Huskisson – 62km We’d been told that Huskisson (aka Husky) was a nice place to visit and as it was only 25-30km away it seemed like an easy day out on our bikes. The bike route, unfortunately, took us along the Prince’s Highway, which is the main road that goes […]

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Back to Sydney for more cycling

Tues 28th Oct – Adelaide to Sydney After a great week in Adelaide licking our wounds from what felt like a failed expedition to the Mawson Trail we decided to return early to Sydney and do some more cycling around there. After all we still had 2 weeks before we had to return to work! […]

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Life Beyond The Mawson Trail

Sunday 19 October 2025 – Hawker to Adelaide  One final thing that we did in Hawker before going to bed last night was to take our binoculars and find the darkest part of the town so that we could do some star gazing. And a beautiful, clear night it was too and we could see […]

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Mawson – we have a problem!

Friday 17 Oct, Hawker, South Australia – 15km to Jarvis Hill Lookout and back  Woke up feeling tired and a bit sorry for ourselves as we realised that to continue with our trip would be reckless.  Yesterday ended well, but it definitely could have gotten a lot more serious – and Nigel really wasn’t in […]

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