8/11/21 Urban Riding 3: Adelaide

-

I'm getting quite familiar with the Outer Harbour Greenway, and today Roger joined me and we rode together into the city.

Adelaide is surrounded by an impressive belt of parkland that separates the business centre and North Adelaide from the rest of the city.  The Parklands Trail wanders for 20+ km to circumnavigate the city via the Parklands, so circumnavigate we did:

Boldly, we followed the blue dots;


Pedaled past the paddocks: here the parklands are used as horse paddocks but are still open for the public to wander as they will (without disturbing the horses, of course).

Meandered by the mansions;


Bicycled over the bridges;

Traipsed through the trees;

Perambulated past the playing fields;

Sojourned through the cemetery;

Galloped through the graveyards;


Loitered by the lake;


Hooned past the horses (don't touch!  These are working horses at the police stables, and have been known to bite.); 


tootled along the Torrens;

and frolicked past the flowers.


We also rolled along the railway and zoomed past the zoo, but sadly to say I didn't think to take a photo of those alliterative achievements.

On completion of our loop around the city we discovered that our train had just left and we had 30min to wait until the next one.

"Let's keep going" we said. "And stop at the next station along."  And then we said the same thing at the next station as well, and we had a tailwind and a slight downhill, and before we knew it we were trying to race the train home. Never each other, of course, just the train I promise.

We won!  

T'was a good day.







Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

23/12/21 The Dinosaurs of Newtown

-
Image
Some time in the months before Christmas, somewhere near Newtown, a shop had a sale of inflatable Christmas dinosaurs. Lots of people thought that a large inflatable dinosaur was just what they needed for their 2021 outdoor festive decor, so they bought the dinosaurs and then discovered that, once inflated, they were very big. Not as big as a real dinosaur would have been, obviously, but certainly big enough to be inconvenient if you happen to live in a trendy little terrace house with a handkerchief of front lawn and second story verandah almost the size of half a vegemite sandwich.   Dinosaur #1: taking up all the available verandah space I imagine that at this stage the dinosaur purchasers may have considered the size of the dinosaur (inflated or otherwise) in relation to their rubbish bin, but were likely prevented from this course of action by children who, enamoured of dinosaurs, had welcomed the creature into the Christmas fold and called it something festive like Rudolph, o...
Read more

Minor Adventures on Quiet Days

-
Image
 Roger took himself off on the train to South Australia for a week, so BD and I decided to have some adventures of our own, albeit not as exciting as riding the interstate train to Adelaide and getting to have an up-close stickybeak at the flooded Murray River. We took ourselves off to the Ormond Lookout to watch the sun set instead. As did rather more people than what we had anticipated. Mobs, in fact. We found a patch of dirt grass and settled in.  "I'm gonna come back here!" declared BD.  She wriggled around a bit: our patch of grass was on quite a slope and she kept sliding out of her shorts.  "With a chair," she added. In between admiring other people's dogs and taking observational lessons in 101 Ways To Take A Selfie, we watched the sun trundle slowly toward the horizon. No sunset is complete without a picnic. There she goes. Further down the beach, a container ship puttered across the horizon under the gaze of a lone beach-sitter.  And us, of course...
Read more

Quiet Life with Cat

-
Image
 After all the excitement of hospital stays, Emergency Department visits, and trying to balance the cost-benefit ratio of hospital cafeteria food, life became a little more settled.  After a week of blessedly boring drug levels BD was given a reprieve from daily blood tests and we, therefore, were released from daily drives to the nearest Melbourne Pathology lab.  We did some laundry and did some cleaning and I hopped on my bicycle and went for a ride or two.  Not that the weather was very conducive to enjoyable and relaxing bike riding, but I went anyway. All was fine at Albert Park, where the swans put on a good show, playing happy families all across the playing fields.  But that didn't last for long. Back at home the new cat let his crazy out to play.  He zoomed up and down the hallway in the middle of the night; scared the bejeebers out of us by jumping on the sound bar and blasting us with high volume TV; hid under chairs and batted at our ankles as w...
Read more