I think ANZAC Day is like your Veterans or Memorial Day
It fell out of favour in the 70's and 80's - anti Vietnam etc.
But, now there are record crowds attending the dawn services, parades, and of course 2 up schools (We'll leave the lessons on 2 up for another day - suffice to say it's gambling with 2 coins (pennies to be precise).
I kind of slept in, so missed the dawn service, but I made the parade and while the crowds we're up, ofcourse the number of veterans was down.
After the parade I went home, washed the B12 for the first time since before the Once Bitten Rally in March. Then I HAD to take it for a ride, you know just make sure water didn't get in to places it shouldn't.
Anyway, I headed out on to one of the local roads that I use on a regular basis. This road is quite boring and can be infested with Cops. However, today, I decided to explore one of the side roads. Shyte I'm glad I did. I found, no more than 13km from my driveway, a really really nice piece of road.
Ok, it's only 7km long, and goes absolutely no where, and is in fac a dead end. But in that 7km of pot hole free tarmac there are 26 corners ranging from 2 120km/h sweepers to 55km/h (signposted) S bends. Very few houses, therefore very few cars, oh what fun....
So now I have somewhere really close to home where I can let of some steam, use up a bit more chicken strip, and be gone for no more than 45 minutes, depending on how many times I do it.......
Perfect for those days when I can't be bothered to ride for an hour to get to 'gods road'....now I have NOWHERE ROAD - oh and I'm not going give any further description of where it is, just in case there's a local or two reading, I don't want the local squids spoiling my fun....