Threatening skies didn’t deter us from going for a bicycle ride near where we live at Rhodes.
Near where Sydney’s Olympics were staged in 2000, Rhodes was a very industrial area, but proximity to the city, access to trains and being close to the Olympic precinct has seen it undergo a transformation over the past few years into a new urban centre with thousands of people housed in a stack of high rise towers.
Beside the water there’s a terrific wide, flat path for cyclists and walkers alike.
We joined the path at Meadowbank, ride over the old railway bridge down to the Olympic site.
Unfortunately the weather beat us and after sheltering a few times in picnic shelters and under a new pedestrian bridge we made it back to the car without too much drama.
A great ride. We’ll do this again 🙂
Love the way they have kept the old rail bridge over the Parramatta River at Meadowbank and preserved it for cyclists and pedestrians.
Great path beside the river. Don’t drink the water… yet! But it’s getting cleaner.
Waiting out the worst of the downpour.
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