Thredbo to Jindabyne
Leave: 10.00am
Arrive: 1.15pm
Ride time: 2hrs 18mins
Total so far: 290.45km
Total today: 37.25km
Max. speed: 72km/h
Av. speed: 16.2km/h
Leisurely start - coffee and croissant at the bakery and checked out the bikes of the DH riders turning up for the NSW State Round 1. Took my back wheel down to the servo to get a new spoke fitted - $10 all up.
Good breakfast at the lodge - toast and cereal. Packed up and on the road by 10am for a leisurely ride to Crackenback Cottage for morning tea - the scones are superb by the way. Rode across the road to the Wild Brumby distillery as well. Tasted peach, sour apple and apple but he best was the Butterscotch Schnapps. They've got a German beer on tap as well - had to partake!
Staggered back onto the bike for the last 8km to Jindabyne and along the bike path to the Horizons Resort to check in. We will stay 2 nights here to fully recover - the climb yesterday really took it out of us and we haven't recovered yet.
Wandered into town and did some shopping and internet catchup and of course Serge's croissants and the mobile Op Shop on a Friday.
Saturday 4th April
Around Jindabyne
Rest day in Jindy. Full buffet breakfast after a good Mexican dinner we cooked in our apartment last night. Had another croissant from Serge's as well of course. Got the back wheel trued ($35) and hit the shops for a look but generally relaxed and read the papers. Its also the end of daylight saving time tonight and it is probably a few weeks late - sunrise today was 7.36am.
Cooked up a great Indian meal for dinner - the Woolworth's supermarket at Nugget's crossing is great for all sorts of stuff. Itinerary for the remainder of the trip is to ride to Cooma tomorrow and then onto Canberra for a couple of days.
Sunday 5th April
Leave: 8.00am
Arrive: 12.30pm
Ride time: 3hrs 49min
Total so far: 354.47km
Total today: 64.02km
Max. speed: 57.1km/h
Av. speed: 16.7km/h
Another nice breakfast and off in about 10 degrees C out of Jindabyne. Good road verge pretty much all the way to Cooma but the bitumen is generally fairly rough. Superb clear skies and a slight tail-wind meant we could see for miles and were in Berridale (30km) by 10.00am for morning tea and good coffee at the "MooPlus" coffee shop opposite the public loos.
Wind got up a bit as we wandered on to Cooma by 12.30pm and staying at the Sovereign Motel in an apartment - straight opposite McDonalds for $130 (02 6452 1366). Very comfy place. Walked to Woolworths supermarket and bought wine and Ploughman's makings for dinner. Ready now for the final 100'odd km to Canberra. At Berridale, I rang Murray's Buses (132251) and Greyhound (1300 473946863) to see about getting a bus from Canberra to Sydney.
Turned out Greyhound didn't need us to box the bikes (Murray's did) and could transport us non-stop 6.30am-10.00am Wednesday 8th for $87 including bikes. Booked it over the phone and paid by Visa.
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