My motel room was very comfortable and looked out at the
back of the Peterborough Hotel - an old stone building. The back of the
building looks much better than the front because from the street it looks like
dump. It did however serve an excellent T-bone steak last night, great value at
$20.
Neither of the two cafes on the main street of Peterborough are
open for breakfast – and there’s not many people around. The whole town has a
worn out look to it with quite a few closed up stores. So, it’s a quick instant
coffee in the motel room then hit the road.
A lazy day’s ride to Broken Hill. The coolest day so far at
17C. The skies are still grey but there’s no rain or drizzle – yay! The road
alternates between meandering sections and straights, good surface and light
traffic. Most of the way it runs alongside the railway tracks occasionally
swapping sides.
There are quite a few floodways marked but despite the rain
of the last few days they’re all dry. The motorcycle & sidecar combination
is more popular than I’d ever have thought: I passed one on the way Olary, and
met 6 others at different points along the way.
Stopped off at the Olary Hotel for ‘brunch’: anywhere that
has the remains of a Jawa on the back of a truck as a 'Welcom' sign has to be
worth a look. It was probably a busy joint in the hayday of the railway that
runs in front of it but not so today - I’m the only customer. I was greeted by
Lilly the terrier sitting on a couch under a Casey Stoner poster and a cat
sitting at each end of the bar! A mountain of bacon, eggs & coffee
consumed, it’s back on the road.
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| Lilly the terrier |
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| Between the breakfast & lunch rush? |
Encountered a new road hazard between Olary and Broken Hill –
wild goats, grazing away near the roadside.
All up it’s a good road for touring with some varying
landscape including some hills in the distance that you never seems to get
closer to!
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