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Best new website this century? Melbourne bike paths plotted on Google world

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

Now this is what I call a great inovation: Bikely.  It plots bike paths, and users’ favourite on-road bike routes, on a street directory, and lets you look at the map in three views: standard street directory, Google world satellite imagery, or the latter with key roads superimposed (‘hybrid view’). Check out the 10 km [...]

Cycling, Good as hell, Parks, Rides, Walks, Yarra Bend Park, Yarra River | 3 Comments

Staying in country pubs (I knew the discipline would slip sooner or later)

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

Henceforth, this is no longer a blog about Abbotsford as I choose to define Abbotsford. It is about that and country pubs, in particular those with old fashioned accommodation still operational (endangered species). There is a Flickr group on the subject (a future project of mine) but precious little else. If you know [...]

Accommodation, Beer, Food, History, Pub Grub, Pubs and bars, Rides | No Comments

Gipps St Steps to Go

Saturday, July 8th, 2006

Only one flight of the forty-one Gipps St steps, which are to be replaced with a ramp are pictured. For many Abbotrigines, they are the starting point for any trip on the main Yarra bike path away from the city. No doubt many trips to the Collingwood Children’s Farm or the Abbotsford Convent, or Dight’s [...]

Cycling, Rides, Walks, Yarra River | 1 Comment

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