Day 57 - Katoomba, Blue Mountains - Melbourne I'm so tired…….we had the alarm set for 6:30 and so why did I have to wake up at 3:10 and not be able to doze off again! Mind you just as well we left when we did as the 90min journey took over 2 ½ hrs. Needless to say I was in severe panic mode as we crawled along the M4 back to Sydney stopping every few yards; that will sound familiar to anyone who makes the journey to London along either the M3 or M4. W...

Day 56 - Katoomba, Blue Mountains Forecast for today was "Mostly Sunny" so off we went to explore the Blue Mountains via the Skyway, a cable car with a glass floor that spans across the valley 300m below, the railway which they say is the steepest cable one in the world and the Cable Car back up after the rainforest walkways - huh, all I can say as the cloud came down along with the rain was their meteorologists are as crap at forecasting the weather as ours are...

Day 55 - Sydney to The Blue Mountains Leaving Sydney today and I'm really sad again. The Four Seasons has been our home for 5 nights and the staff have been absolutely super, especially those in the restaurants. The hostess said to us at breakfast this morning " Why do the nice ones have to leave early and the not very nice ones stay "I've never actually stayed anywhere before that has a pianist playing a breakfast time, nice touch, and he was English; re...

Day 54 Sydney Our last full day in Sydney and as we missed a day of sightseeing yesterday we have a lot to do today. Had a bit of lie in this morning though after the very early start yesterday and consequently missed the ferry to Taronga Zoo by about thirty seconds. The ferries are really anal about their time keeping and although there were only five of us trying to catch it they closed the doors and we had to wait for the next one which has put us behind, d...

Day 53 - Sydney to Sanctuary Point A very early start today as we had to catch the train so alarm was set for 6am, and this is a holiday! Actually the first ones to breakfast at 6:30; that's not going to happen very often but it wasn't more than ten minutes before all the business people started arriving; I'm so glad I've retired! We had to get a train from Circular Geoff were going to meet us at 10:26; these are not exactly express trains. We had managed to get...