Friday May 9, 2014

We had called Mat last night to let him know that we should arrive around 1:00, all being well.

Once again we attempted to follow Veloway 1.  Once again the route was really badly signposted.  After about the 4^th time we turned around trying to find the right route, I told Ralf that if we had to turn around more than 10 times I was finding the nearest train station and catching the train to Ferny Hills, it was incredibly frustrating.  Ralf checked his garmin and the map that we had, and decided to abandon trying to follow the V1 and took Highway 95 north into Brisbane, we made a couple more turnarounds but eventually we were able to find our way through Brisbane and north-west of the City to Mat and Kelly’s place.

Brisbane is trying to be bike friendly. I just don\’t think the engineers are cyclists and therefore do not know what a cyclist needs with regards to road signs.  All it would take is to put the V1 sign on the road signs along with the other directional signs.  For example, when coming towards a roundabout there is a road sign indicating which exit to take.  Add the V1 sign next to the correct exit, also when the next road sign indicates what road you are on add the V1 sign as well.

Mat and Kelly bought this house in February.  After we had commented about our warm shower’s hosts living up big hills.  This house is in the Ferny Hills area and up some big hills, yes we had to walk up a couple.  Mat was waiting for us when we arrived and was disappointed to see us not cycling up his driveway, which I even had difficulty pushing the bike up, it is so steep – 27 degree incline.

Mat took Kelly to the airport, she is away for two weeks visiting her brother in South America.  Mat has a week of vacation and he will show us the sites of Brisbane and surrounding area.

We also have a few days to organize flights to Uluru, possibly Cairns and the UK.

After dinner we sat outside and chatted for a while then the possum came to visit us and Ralf and Mat fed it bananas.

Mat had some possum repellant on the deck, it obviously does not work very well.