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Day 11 Sat 21 May 16, Peterborough 8 - 18deg fine, cloudy with a sneaky wind; winter-like. The rather late sunrise meant that the early morning walk was done in total darkness. The sun didn't make an appearance all day due to the cloud cover, so it stayed a bit dreary and "cool". However as they say there's no such thing as bad weather just poor choice of clothing. After a hot brekky and rugged up like we were going to the snow, off we went on our bikes. The local monthly markets were first. We love it when our stop coincides with a local event. All handmade stuff, lots of arts and crafts. Got some yummo homemade cakes. Our next mission was to find real coffee, which we accomplished at the redundant Capitol cinema, built in 1926 and killed off by TV 50 years later. It had been restored and converted into a great cafe, come museum with lots of movie memorabilia. We finally found a cafe which served vanilla slices!! Gotta break out occasionally. We then spent an interesting hour or so wandering around the motorcycle museum which had some real classics. Small world, at the museum Greg ran into a bloke (Brian) who he used to ride motorbikes with a few years ago. He had moved from Torbanlea to Peterborough because of his rail/motorcycle fascination and his diesel mechanical qualifications. The architecture of this place is amazing, more like Europe than Oz, so different to Qld, consequently we just enjoyed riding around town taking it all in. Returned to the van for lunch. Did some grocery shopping in preparation for our next stop Wilpena Pound, Flinders Ranges. After dumping that in the van Wendy did some domestic stuff while Greg rode around town on the bike for a while. It was then time for dinner, leftover mornay and some reading. We've both really enjoyed Peterborough with it's lovely old buildings, great museums and rather harsh windswept landscape.
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