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International > Australia > Hotcam's King Valley / Milawa backroads, VIC, 265 km Contributer: Hotcam  (04-08-2007)

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580km there and back; a combination of sporting curves and sports-touring curves. Unless you take the Hume Highway back, which is as boring as slab gets.

Go north from Melbourne, to the Food and Wine region at Milawa in the King Valley. We took the back roads all the way there; we saw some great corners and someamazing fire-devastated forest scenery. You should expect to come home fully laden with saddlebags full of wine, jam, chutney, olive oil, etc. After the wineries etc close at 5pm we took the slab home, it was starting to get dark and critters come out then, I didn't want to chance the dozen-and-a-half bottles of wine in the saddlebags over backroad bumps, and I felt lazy.

Thank goodness for the throttle lock to ease my wrist and take my hand off the throttle, because I counted 10 fixed speed cameras and two traffic patrol cars inthe 280kms home. I won't take that Hume Highway again, I think.

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