lonely planet cycling australia

just looking round amazon, found a book, "lonely planet cycling australia",
it doesnt have any reviews or anything so was wondering if anyone has had a
look at it in a real bookshop or if anyone has a copy, whats it like? the
synopsis mentions a 30 day eastcoast ride guide, wondering what the route of
this is, and how far you can get in australia in 30 days.

im not going there or anything, but its a nice dream for me to maintain,
during my next 2 and a half years nurse training.

"Robert D France" wrote in message
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just looking round amazon, found a book, "lonely planet cycling
australia",
it doesnt have any reviews or anything so was wondering if anyone has had
a
look at it in a real bookshop or if anyone has a copy, whats it like? the
synopsis mentions a 30 day eastcoast ride guide, wondering what the route
of
this is, and how far you can get in australia in 30 days.

im not going there or anything, but its a nice dream for me to maintain,
during my next 2 and a half years nurse training.



I have a copy - seems good (I can only compare with experience of using LP
France) - we're planning to go to Oz at the end of the year to stay with
some friends and had a vague notion of doing a bit of cycling, hence buying
the Oz LP (although I got it for 2 quid on ebay)

RG

RG wrote:
"Robert D France" wrote in message
...
just looking round amazon, found a book, "lonely planet cycling
australia", it doesnt have any reviews or anything so was wondering
if anyone has had a look at it in a real bookshop or if anyone has a
copy, whats it like? the synopsis mentions a 30 day eastcoast ride
guide, wondering what the route of this is, and how far you can get
in australia in 30 days.

im not going there or anything, but its a nice dream for me to
maintain, during my next 2 and a half years nurse training.



I have a copy - seems good (I can only compare with experience of
using LP France) - we're planning to go to Oz at the end of the year
to stay with some friends and had a vague notion of doing a bit of
cycling, hence buying the Oz LP (although I got it for 2 quid on ebay)

RG

I cycled around Tasmania, excellent - well recommended. I didn't do much
cycling in the rest of Aus. though as I was jaded after crosssing the USA,
NZ and it was too flaming hot most of the time.

On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 10:31:28 +0000, Robert D France wrote:

just looking round amazon, found a book, "lonely planet cycling
australia", it doesnt have any reviews or anything so was wondering if
anyone has had a look at it in a real bookshop or if anyone has a copy,
whats it like? the synopsis mentions a 30 day eastcoast ride guide,
wondering what the route of this is,

We've got it, and the France one.
IMHO some of the rides in it are a bit heavy-going
if you're touring with full camping gear and a trailer
full of kids. I haven't looked at it for 6 months,
but I have this nagging thought that also some of the
suggested routes would be a little heavy on the car
traffic... There was a nice one out of Gloucester (NSW)
though.

I quite liked the background information in the LP France
one, but we found the routing information to be too precise,
and we didn't want to be on such a fixed path.

and how far you can get in australia
in 30 days.

How fast do you ride

It's nice this time of year, the heat of summer
has finally passed (was a bit hot yesterday though)

cheers,
-kt