March 23 & 24 - Rest Days Canberra

The past two days have been great and well deserved rest days here in Canberra.   Did a bit of shopping to get some essentials and luxuries.  Also, ate quite a bit to refuel the engine for the days to come.  

Took the bike to a local bike shop to get the rear wheel back in true and readjust the brakes.  I had to loosen the brakes so that they were not full on most of the time.  That helped the riding prior to the rest days but it did increase the danger level as the rear brakes were not very responsive.  It was the lesser of two evils.  Now that the wheel is true I can have the rear brakes back to the level of safe stopping.  😄   Yay!

Went to do a bit of site seeing as well.  Saw an early settlers farm cabin and did a tour of the war museum.  It was very interesting hearing another countries perspective on the wars.  They had a guided tour of the museum with a more personal take of the impacts of the various conflicts.

Canberra has a great system of biking paths throughout the city.  There is a lake which runs right through the heart of the city.  They designed park system on both sides of the lake which gives the city a good feel.

Here are some photos of Canberra:

    The lake in the center of town.

    Looking from one side of lake back across to gov. buildings.

    View from war museum down ANZAC Way to the Parliament.

Tomorrow we are back on the bike for three very hard days.  Hopefully the legs are ready.  Even if they are not, going to happen, right!?