A power outage in Beechworth, Victoria's High Country, leaves a crowd of thirsty punters unable to buy beer at Tanswell's Hotel due to the eftpos machine being down.
We’ve just secured a table under the wide timber balcony of Tanswell’s Hotel, when we notice a strange quiet has settled around us. Beechworth ’s Ford Street is muted and thick with heat; it’s a stinking hot summer’s evening in Victoria ’s High Country, and most of its shopfronts have closed for the day. But from inside the pub we can hear the muffled sounds of a commotion.
One of the bucolic landscapes you can enjoy all to yourself on the road from Central Victoria to Canberra.We settle in with our tall, cold glasses, and end the day like most on the bike: delirious, happy and a little smug. The plan, therefore, was to leave Sydney, with bikes in tow, on the overnight NSW TrainLink into Melbourne, catch the V-line north to Tallarook, then cycle up to Canberra via Beechworth and Tumut, from where we would jump on a Greyhound bus for the last leg home. All up, around 700 kilometres of cycling.
These more adventurous sections of the route provide contrast to the bucolic riding on former train lines, so it’s a relief when we reach Lake Hume and join up with the High Country Rail Trail. This trail starts in Wodonga, but we jump on just before its most-photographed feature: the 600-metre-long Sandy Creek Bridge. The rest of the afternoon is smooth and serene riding, but grey clouds loom and we’re relieved when the trail delivers us to the Tallangatta Showgrounds.
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