Friday night we were invited to dinner at our friends’ home. We met Jeff and Erin through the Sydney Cycling Club – in fact, Jeff was instrumental in making the club rides available to Tom over the last 5 years, as he was the club Captain in 2004, when we first began spending winters in Australia.

Besides being a doctor and a very serious and accomplished cyclist, Erin is an amazing chef. She fixed a fabulous meal topped off with homemade Tiramisu for dessert! They have a lovely condo in a very nice part of town. Their view looks out over the harbour, and at dusk, the bats fly right by their windows on the evening foray to the parks for feeding. We stood out on the patio to watch them and they came so close you could almost reach out and touch them.

Saturday evening, we rode our bikes out to a cycle track called Hefron – about 10k from where we are living – to watch the cycle races. Erin was racing, and was the only woman in her group. Here’s a picture of her (she’s the fifth cyclist from the left) on one of the 16 laps they took around the track. It was great fun to watch the races and I was very inspired by Erin’s performance.


Weird shadow people fooling around with the camera


Erin – in third place – with huge thundercloud in the background