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Left Sydney a day to late, there was more rain on friday and my cold I catched on the way to Sydney wasn't any better so I decided to stay one more day. Followed the coast line and made my way down to a small town called countrified Bega where I found a nice YHA hostel.
Sunday started very well, beautifull weather in the morning as you can see on the pacific pic which shows the coast in a spot called Tathra. Reached State No 5, Victoria, just after midday. The rain started at about 13:30 and at 15:00 it was so cold and wet (7C sometimes, coldest day so far...) that I gave up and stayed the night in a motel in Lake Entrance. I will have to buy waterproof trousers in Melbourne... |
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Bega Valley
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Tathra
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State No 5
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Finaly made it to Melbourne, at milage 8050km. Was lucky on monday that I didn't catch any more rain. Missed the Moto GP by one day. A guy on a Harley which I met at a petrol station told me that it was quite a lot of fun in the mud, rain and cold weather :) There were at least 3.5 million bikes on the road on monday and I was able to figure out how many of the riders are greeting other bikes. It's less than one of 20 if you do not do it first but if you do so about 30% are greeting back...
The weather is quite shit at the moment and does not look to get any better in the next few days. So I will wait here and decide what to do in 2 or 3 days. The ferry to Tasmania seems to be quite busy but I will check that tomorrow if the weather will be little better. Else I just might try to escape direction north (that's where the nice weather is on the southern hemisphere) but the weather seems to be like this all over this region.
There was another spot for the "places the bike visited" collection. Welshpool this time, I'll have to consider to ride it to the original town one day... |
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Black Forest
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Been to Welshpool
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Welcome to Melbourne
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Big City |
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After some more than a week I'll be glad to leave Melbourne tomorrow. I had to stay that long cause the ferry to Tasmania is quite busy and I could't get a ticket before the 31th of October. The weather down here is still shit, it's mostly wet and cold.
Not a lot to say about Melbourne, just another big city. It changed somehow in the last 8 years (or I did) , think I enjoyed it a lot more in 1995. There are even more Asians than in Perth or Sydney, at least in the city centre are more than 50% of the people on the road Asians and there are certainly a lot more Asian shops than Irish pubs :) |
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Melbourne CBD
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Spirit of Tasmania
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Down Town
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