Cross Country to Cudlee

Since our last blog, we’ve covered a few thousand kilometres; we were in Sydney. Where we spent a day at The Organic Expo 2006 and lined our pockets with free samples whilst looking for ideas that we could steal and profit from back in the UK.

We then headed inland to the Great Capital of Australia! … which is…? Anybody?... Canberra! Lots of worker bees whiz between cold office blocks and sandwich bars. One day was enough there.
Next we headed out into no-man’s-land, driving along for hours of nothing interspersed by the odd Emu sighting or Kangaroo road kill.
We started to feel closer to civilisation when we hit Wine Country; The Barossa Valley and its famous exports. All the wineries have visitor centres and it would have been rude not to visit some, if not all of them. (And very Educational it was too)


Next stop was Adelaide, the other Australian city. I don’t think there are any TV soap operas based here but its still worth a visit. Some of the buildings here date back over 100 years and are made of stone. A very beautiful, purpose built city surrounded by immaculately kept parks. They are also very positive about cycling with an extensive bike path network; you can get anywhere in the city faster by bike than you can by car. But it’s not just roadies that are catered for either, Cudlee Creek Forest a short ride away is looked after and maintained by several mountain bike clubs. We spent a day riding their well graded (black, blue & green runs like skiing) trails and getting serious cold and muddy in the process. Good stuff.

That’s about it. We’re travelling south and will be very slowly making our way along the coast and The Great Ocean road towards Melbourne, so long as we don’t get distracted or see something that looks more fun.