Biking at Centennial Park

Yesterday we rode our bikes to Centennial Park, a huge (189 hectares/467 acres) park in Sydney. We biked the Grand Drive loop, which is 3.8 km. It was very pretty - some parts of the ride are in the full sun, but other parts of the road have trees on both sides that grow together in a shady canopy covering the road, which is really nice. We stopped at the pond to check out the huge black swans; some had come up on the grass to look for food.

It's a really pretty park, and it was a fun ride; I'm glad we made our way over there. I'm looking forward to this year's Moonlight Cinema starting up, where they screen movies outdoors at Centennial Park.

Afterwards, we stopped at The Local Taphouse in Darlinghurst, and had some good beer, the Bridge Road Brewers Galaxy IPA (Victoria, Australia) and the BrewDog 5 A.M. Saint amber ale (Scotland). 

They have 20 beers on tap, and a good selection of bottled beers, too. There were empty bottles decorating their picture rail, and we spotted at least two Rogue bottles from Oregon. The friendly bartender asked us where we're from, and when we said Portland, Oregon, he said, "Oh Oregon, Beervana!"

Note on pricing, just because I'm still getting used to how expensive beer is here (even domestic): the half-pints were $6.50 and $7.50 each; if we'd wanted pints, they would have been $11.60 and $13.30 each!