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Salt Pans to St Kilda

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Living the deprived life as I was, without wine or chocolate, I decided to make the most of the nice(ish) weather and go for a bicycle ride on one of my work-free days.  Having ridden up and down the beach front to the point of tedium, I decided to take myself off to St Kilda instead.  This involved an argument with the Adelaide Metro website which neglected to tell me that the trains to Gawler had been replaced by buses on the very day on which I planned to use the train to launch me on my journey.  Having set my heart on St Kilda I caught the train to Port Adelaide instead, and rode from there. Great excitement! A vintage train chugging to its new home at the Railway Museum in Port Adelaide! And to think I usually zip across those tracks without even looking... Riding from Port Adelaide was all new territory for me, so at least it was a novelty even if it wasn't very pretty. Firstly a charming cycle beside the freeway. At least, being a Sunday, the traffic was light. Se...