Thread: Where did you go today?

Originally Posted by DrWilly

Went to a small fresh produce market.

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Why is the woman in a hazmat suit?

It does look like a suit. However it was two pieces a tracksuit or something, I didn’t pay her much mine. There are some good seasonal vegetables and frozen fish in this market (But it’s not a wet market).

Bike ride in NSW on Thursday

Donkeys ahoy

Reckon I could give Stumpy a run for his money on this Australian ATV

Someone burning stumps

The road I was exploring turned into gravel and then a track and then had to cycle through streams in sections and I ended up in proper duelling banjos territory with genetically challenged yokels staring at me as I cycled nonchalantly past their porches so I was relieved to finally emerge back into civilization as the sun was dropping low with no BMX Arse Banditry inflicted.

Can you spot the bike next to this monster fig tree?

Another vintage ATV before I found the hardtop back to the gaff

∆ Tires are on backwards on the old Massey.

View from the tub in Banff

^^^ What a glorious place to live.

Went for a walk last evening

Originally Posted by Edmond

^^^ What a glorious place to live.

I can't decide where I want to retire. Here or Pattaya

Yawn.. stretch. Coffee is brewing

^Nice. I was planning to do Jasper to Banff on the bicycle when I lived there but never got round it.


Maiden voyage of the bike rack today.

Craggly peaks

Broad abutment

Verdant vista

Road petered to a knobbly track

Bit of wading required

Had to abandon the steed and hike, and eventually came upon a horse's tail waterfall

I was hoping to see the Virgin Mary appear hovering in the double fall grotto on level 2 but I was left unblessed

Lovely part of the world Loops!

Headed into the NSW badlands today where the trail topped out at 400m asl

Fossilised tree

Mount Warning in the distance

Finally heading downhill - thank fook

Homeward bound with 25km of hard trail riding shivering me timbers

A damn fine tree above, worthy of a hug!

Outstanding cycling thread, making me jealous.

The emerald blue seas of Point Danger

I wonder how much those pod houses cost.

Many a shipwreck off point danger in days of yore. Looks like a pirate ship passing by by the cut o'her jib. Looks ripe to splice her mainbrace.

A cheeky chilled Czech was in order to lower the temperature

The Velcopopovicky lager weighs in at 4.7% so a bit stronger than the lush Dark.

Originally Posted by Backspin

I can't decide where I want to retire. Here or Pattaya

You better ask your Filipino wife. She probably wears the pants in that relationship anyway. If she gives you the nod, I hear sausages might offload his gaff in wongamat for the right price of course. Or buy one next door and be his neighbour eh.

Practising my nevtatstic sneaky snorkel snooping tactics on a roasting 36c

Ocean was cool about 21 I think

The enclosed rockpool was warm. Either sunshine or kids weewee.

I lovely lady from Afghanistan stopped me on my apres-snorkel promenade along the path to ask if I could be in her holiday photo and was kind enough to share it with me.

Took long lost Khmer GF on a trek up the mountains in teh venerable volvo.

A kaleidoscope of clouds were blowing across the NSW valleys.

Mount Uki in the centre which I have my sights set on before the wokeness warriors ban climbing it

The clouds were then crashing into Springbrook and crawling up the rockface

Natural Bridge is a waterfall that drops through a hole in the rock

And then emerges through a second hole which forms the natural bridge

The dramatic cloudscapes continued apace all afternoon

As the rain storms blustered on and off

Up to Springbrook ridgetop

For some classic waterfalls

But we ran out of waterfalls as the clouds closed in at 1000m asl

So it was back home for a bowl of Tom Yam which had been my specialty dish when we met in Canberra 19 years ago and a special request from LLKhGF

Originally Posted by Backspin

View from the tub in Banff

Hey! I recognize that, that's a stoners picture of a great view 555

Originally Posted by Backspin

I can't decide where I want to retire. Here or Pattaya

Definitely not Pattas

Today I went to the train station to pick up a lady from Fujian Province. She got the train down from Brisbane which was quite brave with no English language skills on a holiday visa

Fujian fillies are like No.9 buses. You wait a lifetime and then 2 come along at once. The geese were enthused by FF2's attention and I suggested grabbing one for the BBQ

She admired the bike collection and attempted to climb on the low-rider beach-cruiser but it was a bit of a stretch at 5'0.

Fujian ladies always bring tea.

Her English is not hilariously bad, it is non-existent. All communication with her was by her talking into her translation app in Chinese and then playing the translation back to me.

I am getting a taste for this Wuyi Mountain brew and the little Chinese cup is a cultural gift, she advised via auto-translation.

I was able to make myself mostly understood via sign language.

She was all over my links when we moved on to the Aussie cultural main course. I was relegated to back-seat driver.

She requested a glass of wine once she felt settled so I was glad to be able to share my very favourite Rose bubbles with her.

The 1 day past full moon rose over the horizon as the embers settled to light up a patchwork of clouds

And our first cultural exchange without subtitles was concluded.

No pics of the melon but looks like Fujian filly has a good chassis.

Poster of the Millennium.

Originally Posted by BLD

looks like Fujian filly has a good chassis.

Wow - 1974 again.

Are 'The Sweet' the hot chart toppers?