We started our cycling adventure with a quick reconnoiter of the main streets of Beechworth and then headed off towards the Rail Trail and our first stop at Pennyweight Winery. We had a wine tasting session there, knowing that if we made any purchases they would be collected by Darren and taken to our final…
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It really wasn’t the weather for a bike ride
A couple of days ago my husband and I set off for Port Welshpool in Victoria. I was going for a bike ride with a new group of riders, one of whom I had met on a previous ride I had done and she invited me to join this group on a ride of the…
It has been a while
Finally getting down to posting on my blog. You would think that with the COVID shutdown I would have all the time in the world to write blog posts but I just haven’t felt like it. I have found some sense of normality this week as the Tour de France is on the television, albeit…
An escape before stage 3 again
I managed to get away for a weekend of bike riding with the Bike Chicks. We were fortunate to get a trip as we are in an area of Victoria with no active cases of COVID19 and travel was permitted within Victoria outdside the exclusion zone of metropolitan Melbourne. We had booked a stay at…
A new section of the East Gippsland Rail Trail for me.
Recently I rode a section of the rail trail I haven’t ridden before and it means I will have ridden the trail from Bairnsdale to Orbost but obviously not all in one go. The Trail is approximately 100km.Three of us rode from Waygara to Orbost and back again, a distance of 34 kms. It was…
Gippsland Lakes Discovery Trail
Yesterday i went for a bike ride on the Gippsland Lakes Discovery Trail. It is nine years at least since I was last on this trail when I did part of the trail with my husband. We rode from Forestec that time, this time I rode from Bruce’s Road. The trail starts off on open…
Gippsland Granny 