Canberra to Canberra then to Yass

 We amended our original route after talkng with the guy from the bike shop as he told us of a far more scenic and quietr route. So off we went at 7:30 AM and happily rode through then out of Canbera in the rain and as we were warned that there would be no coffee shops along the way we drtoured before we left Canberra for Peter's coffee. After that it was back on the trail and out of town - I got to see live kangaroos in the wild this time however that experience was spoilt by the magpie that kept swooping on me and they had another go at me a bit later on as well. It was really good that was until we saw the "River Crossing Closed" sign! Bugger. No we had a good hill to climb back up and head back to where we came from some hours earlier! After another Cafe stop where we re-mapped our route to Yass we headed out once again only to find that there was another road closure on tha route due to flooding,

Eventually we left the last suburb of Canberra at about 2:30 PM! 

While iy was raining on and off for most of the day we struck it lucky a couple of times as we were stopped and under shelter when it really bucketed down.

Ou route once we left Canberra had us on the Hiighway mostly and although noisy we were well away from traffic on a good shoulder and at one point for about 5 km we had a brand new section of road just for ourselves.

We srrived here at Yass at about 6:30 PM and having travelled about 55 km's more than we could have had we taken the route directly from Canberra without the flooded crossings!

On our rest day in Canbera we found a bike shop for a bit of servicing and walked and bussed around the city taking in the Paliament Buildings and the War memorial museum - The War memorial museum makes one think quite deeply and emotionally I find and there are over 103,000 names of Austraians on the rememberance wall - everyone - somebody, someone's son or daughter - their lives cut short because of war.

Last night we popped around the corner to "Edgars Inn" for a meak and found quite full however there was a table upstairs for us. Just as we were about to leave a young lady began dancing through the diners and then began to remover her clothes! No we had not taken ourselves to a strip club but to the local suburban pub! Of course it would have been rude of us to up and walk through the middle of the younf ladies choriographed dance routine so we stayed put. Would you believe before we had had sufficient time to sort the bill out low and behold she began a second dance!

Adjacent to our table was a table with four young woman enjoying themselves at the end of their work week and they were  most appreciative of the young ladies dancce routine.

I commented on this to them ano one thing led to another and before you know it they were asking me for my contact details! They were all very fit young things (26) and  amazed at what we were doing and insisted on becoming. Strava frineds! So now I have Larissa, Laura and Emily from Canberra following my rides! How cool is that.