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The Wandering Rupa
Well here we are then. In four days I can confidently say that me and three girls from the bus have managed to cram in as much as there was to see in Sydney. We wandered around Sydney Harbour and over the Bridge. We picnicked in the Botanical Gardens and went to see the Rocks Markets. We did Bondi and Manly (both in one day no less) and spent the day at the Blue Mountains.
Each day has been filled with complete nonsense (as is typical for Kate's world tour). Anyone that knows me will struggle to believe it but I've found three girls that have a sense of humour as bizzare as mine. Our most hysterical day was defiately the Blue Mountains - lots of stupid noises and "Little Britain" impressions. I remember becoming my mother's daughter early on in the day and predicting that the level of silliness made "tears before bedtime" inevitable and I was right.
A 15 minute walk had already taken us an hour before I (lets face it, it was always going to be me) fell - badly and surprisingly heavily - down a steep footpath. I felt something go "crunch" and we all heard a pretty grizly snap and I went down like a lead balloon! My foot was the size of a football in around 1 minute and I went into some sort of shock and lay - laughing hysterically - across the footpath while the girls tried to get help. Of course we'd strayed off the path and were in the middle of nowhere, half way up a mountain. Going back the way we came was too steep for me to cope with and so we ploughed onwards and upwards with me in agony and the girls half carrying/half dragging me along... FOR THREE HOURS!
At one point we came across a really steep set of steps that we hoped would take us to a railway that we could us to get me to some medical attention. Me and Helen set off first and were just wandering if it could get any worse when Emma (who suffers vertigo) had a panic attack at the top of the steps with Marike (the crazy German) stuck behind her. We held up an enormous Japanese tour group while Helen and Marike struggled to get me and Emma to the bottom of the steps in one piece - it took a good twenty minutes - and the Japanese tour group took photographs the whole time - very VERY embarressing!
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