Travel within Australia, and especially within New South Wales including Sydney, is now the easiest it has been for a year. It feels as if the cloud of covid is finally lifting. Basic precautions are still essential however the fears of spreading and catching the virus have abated as the quarantine controls have worked, and vaccinating has begun.
Given the positive situation, I’ve decided to extend my Covid era cycle touring beyond the safe bubble of Canberra and headed to the big smoke. To Sydney. My cycle touring son lives there. 14 months he and I rode around Taiwan but since then we’ve effectively been bunkered down waiting for conditions to improve.
The very simple, and short, tour plan was based on my 20” wheeled folding touring bike. I rode a kilometre or so to Canberra’s main bus station, folded the bike, took the bus to Sydney Domestic Airport, unfolded the bike and rode to my son’s suburb.
The next day, we did a day ride by a beautiful riverside trail and backstreets within the inner southwest of Sydney.
Here are the pics and the captions:
The Bike Friday rolls into the bus station. Lightly loaded with just a few essentials like the coffee maker.
At the end of Coward St, the bikeway starts. This is only a few minutes ride from where the bus dropped me and the Bike Friday at the Sydney Airport domestic terminal.
