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23 December 2019
Saturday 21 December. Anglesea to Tootgarook. 70km. After yesterday’s extreme temperatures we had some rain and thunder overnight and woke to grey skies and cool temperatures. I don’t think we could ever get used to the volatile weather changes here! Although we didn’t have a lot of kilometres to cover we had a ferry ride […]
20 December 2019
So, the weather is up to its old tricks again and things were forecast to be pretty hot at times over the next few days. As it happens our ‘late’ arrival into Adelaide and our extra day off in Robe helped and the hottest days were forecast to fall on our easier riding days… Wednesday […]
18 December 2019
Saturday 14 December. Nelson to Portland. 71 km. It was cold and damp when we left Nelson so we were glad to be leaving a cabin and not having to pack up a wet tent. As we have the difficult cycling part of Australia almost behind us now we are starting to feel in a […]
13 December 2019
Monday 9 December 19 – Policeman’s Point to Kingston SE – 96km We briefly saw our German neighbours as we were packing our bikes at 5.30am, but we didn’t really get a chance to properly chat, which was a shame. It was so hot yesterday afternoon that it was just too uncomfortable to be outside […]
8 December 2019
Tuesday 2 – Saturday 7 December 2019. Adelaide. 0km. Our original plan for Adelaide was to stay four nights with three full days off. But it took us slightly longer to get there, so we decided to only take two days off – and from what we had read about the city that seemed likely […]
4 December 2019
Thursday 28 November 19 – Port Augusta – 0km A quick note on food… We eat a lot! In general I eat much more than Martina, sometimes literally twice as much. Even so, I have lost weight and as early on as Slovakia I was down to 62kgs, which is 8-10kgs less than I would be […]