Palais Royale Blue Mountains Katoomba

... The walk back up the cliffs looked demoralisingly steep, but only took around ten minutes to scale, which surprised me.

After, I went to Faulconbridge, taking a forty minute walk to the Norman Lindsay Gallery, a famous painter who was viewed as scandalous for his main theme of nudist pictures in the 1930s. I saw the film "Sirens" fifteen years ago when it was released, and having realised that film was about ...

... back up again – we were all puffing away. Very unfit and too many cooked breakfasts I fear!

Afterwards we headed off to Scenic World and took the world’s steepest railway down to the bottom of the valley. We all loved this train as it was a bit like a theme park ride and very steep, in some parts 52 degrees from the horizontal. It was seriously steep! At the bottom we had a good walk through the rainforest and ...

How many different forms of transport can you go on in one day? Six isn't bad. This blog entry is dedicated to John McG.

Becky started to day off well, her wobbly tooth came out whilst eating her toast this morning. She was pleased about this as she had been informed by one of her friends that you get double when you are abroad.

1. Caught the bus from Leichart to Central Station in the City.
2 ...

... the Inca Trail, which I did once and LOVED so much that I almost bought a cheap Spirit Airlines ticket to Peru when my coworker Jenny Sullivan got back from her trip because her pictures made me so badly want do it again), but that you are also constantly "missing," if you will, the fun times you just had... Man, NZ was fun. Which reminds me...the obligatory Milford Sound shot is not on the blog yet...so it's here. But ...

... start considering i have two days of activity in front of me. The view from the track is of a beautiful rain forest, starting on a high slope and trailing off gently into gorgeous green valleys. You can hear the distant sound of small waterfalls a constant siren of crickets and chatter of gliding birds. Its overwhelming. I dont think I can really put a proper image into your head I what I saw, but the feeling it gave me was of calm and happiness. The track wound its way around to the ...

... they have fireworks in the sky, but they also had these flame thrower things on the ground (out of the reach of people of course) that spat fire.  I was most certainly impressed by the fireworks in front of us, and could also see some from further down the harbor that were going off at the same time. Getting back to our hotel, which was on the block directly next to where we were standing, was horrendous.  The thousands of people trying to all go up a few sets of stairs at once, trying to ...

We went to the Blue Mountains on a day trip from Sydney on a 2hour train ride. The famous rocks are called the 3 sisters that you will hopefully see in the photos. It was really cool to be so close to Sydney but be somewhere that is so different. We went on a cable car that had a glass bottom which went over a big gorge ...

... he was in training for a bike race. Perfect, my plans for a weekend in the wilderness with no punishment to the liver were coming together. Little did I know how great the weekend would be and how plans would be altered a bit... I took the 3 hour train ride out west to the mountains and when I arrived in the foggy mountains I was greeted with a big smile from Brett. He wasn't going to get off work until 5 so I had about 2 hours to check out ...

... bottom, so you could look directly down over the trees as we sailed hundreds of feet above them.



This was the view below us as we soared over the canopy.



It's been raining here for most of the last few days, so the waterfall in ...