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The Great Ocean Road is 243 kilometres of National Heritage listed road on the south-east coast of Australia. Built by returned soldiers between 1919 and 1932 it is the world's largest war memorial - dedicated to the dead of World War I.
The World's Best Riesling
Today we tasted 'The World's Best Riesling' - at least that is what the lady trying to sell us a bottle said. We are in the Clare Valley, one of Sth Australia's best wine growing regions. It is wet, cold and windy. Not good conditions for fair-weather cyclists. Unless the weather improves, this year's holiday in the Clare is going to be a lot more about drinking and a lot less about cycling.
Sydney to Adelaide - Meandering along the Murray.
One thousand, three hundred and seventy-six kilometres - according to Google Maps that's how far it is from Sydney to Adelaide. It feels like more. If you allow for the odd wrong turn, occasional side trip and following the scenic route, it is more - but even in a straight unwavering line it is a long way. If Australians have a national obsession, it has to be travel. At any given moment half the country is out roaming the world in a vast international diaspora. D and I try to do our bit - but when we get tired, as we occasionally do, of travelling the world we come home and travel Australia instead.
Colonia del Sacramento:- Uruguay in a day.
We had no real idea of what to expect of Uruguay. I was apprehensive. David wasn't - until we saw the ferry dock. It was at least a hundred years old; rusty, decrepit and decaying. Oooooppps! - what happened to rule number one - 'travel within our comfort zone'.
The ferry berthed, the doors opened and we had no choice but to join the crowd and be swept along by the collective force of humanity deserting the ship. We stumbled along the rickety third-world gang-way, navigating its maize of corridors, stairs, and corners losing all sense of time and direction until finally we were expelled into the arrivals hall. Here we found ourselves surrounded by chrome and glass. This was ultra modern state of the art architecture - a brand-spanking new ferry terminal building. What a relief! ( Note to the Uruguayan authorities - if you want international tourists to get a good first impression do something about the wharf.)
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