The main tourist attraction of the Blue Mountains, Scenic World, was our destination for the day's activities. We arrived just after opening time to beat the crowds and headed inside where we bought our tickets and headed outside onto a precarious metal mesh platform where we were to catch the world's steepest railway to the valley floor. A grey cockatoo sat on a railing and immediately caught our attention as it preened in the morning sun. After a short burst of...

Walking into a perfectly reasonable (by UK standards) 12 degrees (Celsius) Sydney felt more than cool after the heat in Singapore but we persevered, in our shorts and t-shirts, and soon acclimatised. We navigated the compact airport with ease finding the railway station where we caught the train to Central Station. The train was an old sparkly aluminium-clad train that one tends to associate with America but it was double-decker, though we didn't venture upstairs...

G'Day! (That's Australian for Hello, or, more correctly, Good Day. Aren't I clever? :P) And so to the next instalment. Sorry it's been a while but the lack of Internet is becoming ever more apparent as we travel further northwest into the Australian outback, but more on that later. We awoke, the next morning, rather late and opted for an easy start to the day. Trying to claw back hours lost on the plane couldn't take all day and so we eventually got up and wen...

Well Hello! I would greet you in Singapore's native language but seeing as everyone speaks English over here I haven't actually learnt any yet. I know I'm a bad western tourist but there are just too many exciting things to see, do and eat to learn a foreign language, though I have no excuse for the 14 hour flight. The flight was actually fairly bearable. We had a window seat and 106 films to watch, goodness knows how many CDs, computer games and over 80 TV epi...