Albury, a yoga flip and a bicycling flop

(Albury, Australia, 3rd to 7th March 2017)

When it was time to travel on we took the train from Melbourne 3 hours straight north into the mountains. We had planned to stay in a small town called Albury in a month to ride our bikes, swim and do yoga. I had booked an apartment the first four days to check if this was a good place to stay in.

Albury is very close to another town called Wodonga, although not in the same state. In Wodonga, I found a nice yoga place, Green room yoga, and five hundred meters from our apartment, just a short walk through the Botanical Gardens of from there was a fresh outdoor pool. Everything was perfect except when it came to cycling. Johan was out cycling a lot, tried different roads and also followed different bike groups on their trips. Unfortunately, the mountains turned out to be anything but high and motorists anything but biker friendly.

The third day in Albury Johan sat waiting for me outside my yoga place with a worried expression on his face. He told me about his cycling dilemma and we took a hasty decision that we would leave Albury and Australia and instead go to Majorca to cycle there instead. Once we had taken the decision everything went very fast. Before the day was over, we had booked a flight to Sydney, picked up some bike boxes in a bike shop a few kilometers away (yes it was a hassle to carry them home …), booked accommodation in Sydney and rebooked all other flights.

/Christel