Echoes Boutique Hotel Katoomba

... 32 degrees today so my plan to get out of the heat of the city kinda funked up. The views were outstanding but the movement between pics was very slow!<br><br>The afternoon was spent in Katoomba &#8211; and mostly in my Motel room taking a siesta. I am staying at the Seven Sisters motel and its ok &#8211; good value and the lady running the place is super friendly. After my snooze I finally managed to see the eponymous three sisters and again the views were ...

... du professeur (mais elle a 50 autres personnes a écouter et donc c&#8217;est 5-10min par jour max pour ceux qui le veulent)&#8230; et donc il y a beaucoup de temps rien qu&#8217;avec moi et mon esprit.<br><br>Une partie du cours que j&#8217;aime vraiment est le « discours » du professeur. Comme il est en Inde, il nous parvient en vidéo mais chaque jours entre 19h et 20h nous avons droit au discours du professeur Goenka où il nous explique la théorie de la technique, le ...

... of kilometers of rainforrest in all directions, once you are in the middle of the national park, and you get there by train within only two hours from Sydney! It`s incredible it`s not more crowded on a perfect week end like this, regarding a 4 million citizen city lies just in front of it. <br><br>The Blue Mountains are regarded as the widest compound of Eucalyptus trees, hosting over 200 different species. <br><br>As I ...

... was quite favoured past time when back in blighty - sunday nights - bath/tunes/chill - lush. When in my over excitement I preceeded to scald every inch of me as I insisted on indulging in a toasty bath. I refused to move - and when i regained consiciousness from heat exposure - it was devine. The day was pretty much out though - crawled to my room - too dizzy to stand- passed out again ...

... 10 mins when i work out - that the four hours it would take me to get to the castle for night fall - would also involve a 4 hour trek back! <br>However, despite this..... the motivating factor in making me turn around is that I still had my multi-use Scenic world ticket!!! If i didn't get back by 4:30pm everything would have stopped running. It was on the realization of a wasted $28 that i turned and ran back!!! - the whole way! Yep! Even over that landslide - which on ...

... route if you like. It was dark when we arrived at Katoomba, which is a beatiful little city within the Blue Mountains National Park so we did a little bit of food shopping and found a nice little discreet picnic area to park up for the night. Not that you can be discreet anywhere in a van of this size. Jan cooked us up some pasta and we sat inside the van for a while before heading off to bed. We tried sitting outside but it was too bloody cold up there. Why freeze when you can have luxury?

... pro nas to bylo spis jak ze sauny do studene sprchy. No a na konci prochazky to bylo vsechno zase naopak. Cestou jsme v podstate nepotkali nohu, takze to bylo cele takove mirumilovne... :-) Ke konci jsme se sice plazili a plivali krev, ale i tak to bylo krasne. Nejkrasnejsi ale bylo, ze na konci naseho snazeni byla kavarna, kde meli uzasne zmrzlinove pohary, kakze jsme hned hbite doplnili kalorie. Potom jsme se vydali do mestecka Lithgow, kde jsme stravili noc.

... smaller towns; I didn't realise that they were really as accessible as they are. Clearly I'm quite naive about this whole area, and I suppose my judgement came in part from the picture hanging on the wall in my grandma's house. It is a painting of the blue mountains, and gave me the impression as I was growing up that to go there you'd need a car, drive it to some forest car park, and walk along paths of rough ...

... craic as the driver was full of banter and explained that the bell was buggered on the bus so you had to stamp your feet if you wanted off!! Got off and tried one of the numerous walks that you can do around the mountains and valleys. It was really sunny and warm though and we were buggered pretty soon. Guy at the hostel was really sound when we got back and bumped us up for the night with a twin room he had available - i shotgunned the double bed ...

... I'm delighted to say that for the first time since arriving in Oz, the blog is now 100% up to date, I just need to add some photos. <br><br>I can't do that here because the PC blocks me from downloading the necessary software, but I hope to get the photos up ...