Somerset Darling Hbr Sydney

... away from our hostel by some the road being closed with loads of fire engines we decided to bail out and start walking but the bus driver kept going for another km in the wrong direction before letting us and the rest of the passengers off. So we walked all the way back to our hostel and it finally took us over 2 hours to get back instead of the 20 minutes it should have taken. Nevermind we just cracked on with tea and headed for bed. <br><br>Gaz &amp; LJ

... night we would sit by the roadside, with painted signs from broken down Mcdonalds boxes propped up by our backpacks, throwing stones at empty glass botlles. We called it work. Our job was to go somewhere. <br><br>We got given money by schoolkids who felt sorry for us. Then they cam back around and had to give us the courage to cross the highway which we were stuck on the wrong side of. It was the beginning of our trip and we were pale faced and daunted ...

... we plan to head north to Brisbane. <br>We headed off towards the Opera House and went via the Park to check up on the Bats we found yesterday evening. It was the middle of the day and they were all out and about some sleeping and some flapping around look for some poor soul to suck their blood. Something we've noticed is that the parks are always full of people playing sport, no wonder their such a good sporting nation their all bunking off work to play ...

... 3 full days watching &#8216;How I met your mother&#8217;!<br>Whilst we were staying there we made a couple of excursions back into Sydney. First to see Steve, another cousin of Ang&#8217;s, who lives with wife Amanda and son Solomon in a northern suburb called Chatswood, quite nice actually, good potential for us next year. Anyway we were sat there enjoying a cup of English Breakfast and I looked round to see what I thought was some kind of Albino Eagle sat on the balcony. It turns out ...

... movies and food which made us felt very enjoyable! Eventhough Mommy was still feeling sad that the other 2 families didn't join us for the trip. We knew that they were also equally upset but for health concerns, we understood and respected their decision.<br><br>Finally we arrived at Sydney International Airport around 8.45pm and after checking-out and collected our rental car, by the time we reached Hotel Ibis Sydney Airport ...

... I suppose it's a lot easier when the displays are in a language that you actually don't need to use your dictionary to translate. I also drank a lot of tea in Sydney as my hostel had free tea. FREE TEA! Now, for anyone who knows me vaguely well you will realise that tea + the word free = a very happy Shona. <br><br>Whilst in Sydney I also met up with a guy who Lisa and I had met during our Inka trail. He invited me to his ...

... keen to sort it out. We made our way to Blackheath camp site & plugged-in, unloaded & topped-up (things you have to do with camper-vans, apparently). As we were plugged into the mains, our microwave worked, so we didn't starve. Preparing the van for sleep was a bit of a procedure, the seats & tables had to be re-arranged as beds, Diane & Rodney had to climb a ladder & crawl into the little "hutch" above the cab. We had to get dressed in shifts in the ...

... make things MORE appealing, but they still reflect on a degree of less control and more "commericialization," if you will. Then there's the simple fact that some of the best things in New Zealand are guided, such as hiking on the glaciers. I loved the Franz Josef glacier hike, definitely a highlight of the trip. But that day I was in a group of 11 that was a subset of a group of 55 that was one of two full day groups that was also on the ...

... has a huge collection of teapots displayed all around us). We buy a couple of gifts in one of the boutiques before rejoining the next hourly bus. We stay on this until "Gordon Falls". Here is the start of a 1 hour walking trail - perfect since the bus comes round every hour. We start down the path toward "Leura Cascade" where we'll meet the bus again. This is a really breathtaking route along the cliff with wonderful views of the Blue Mountains. We are ...