Blue Mountains Budget Accomodation Katoomba

... Visa touriste – c’est valable pendant un an mais on ne peut passer que 3 mois d’affilée d’un coup… et tout ce qu’il faut pour renouveler le Visa c’est quitter le pays et y revenir)… Bref, je commence donc à me demander ou je pourrais aller pour renouveler mon Visa. Quelques heures plus tard, je reçois des nouvelles d’un ami de Nouvelle Zélande… et pourquoi pas retourner en Nouvelle Zélande pendant quelques jours et ...

... his wifes naked girlfriends (weird!). We drove into town and sampled some of the local fare by ordering take out 'ring burning' pizza and 'breath stinking' garlic bread, nice! We ate it in front of the open fire in the lounge with a few glasses of red (well, it was Friday night after all!). off to bed with our electric blankets, coooozzzzzyyy!

Saturday morning we woke up to beautiful sunshine, a little fresh with the wind but not too cold. Our hotel was a ...

Given the gentle day yesterday - I wanted something with a bit more bite today. I decided to head back down to Echo point where i would look into going on the the steepest train decent in the world :-) and then walk back up. On arrival at 'Scenic World' there was a deal on - basically for $28 I could churn my stomach in a whole host of different ways! The 'scenic train", The 'Scenic Cable' (I love the Australian imagination for naming things...new south wales/ Newcastle/the ...

... dead roo in it not so nice. Then to get out of the canyon we had to climb a tree like Tarzan, and then push our way through the bush up a hill, i thought we were lost but i was wrong when we came out of a bush and the bus was right in front of us. Big black cockies = Big black cockatoo, haha i had to ask the guide what he meant when he said that. We got back earlier than expected so i walked back to the Yha and fell asleep on the sofa waiting for the bus to arrive.

... for gas. When we tried to restart the car, nothing happened other than the batttery coming on. We tried this for about 10 minutes and we examined the engine, but nothing was happening, not even a click. Fortunately, the guy pumping gas next to us saw our plight and took a look. He determined that the car was immobilized. Apparently, the panic button on our keychain also immobilizes the car, and we had managed to immobilize it. So ...

We got back to Katoomba, got changed, I finally had a shave after about a month and then I left with Stu and Jo to Sydney, the other boys will follow in a couple of hours. the train return is only $20 and takes 2.5 hours - not bad really so we will ba coming back to Katoomba at some ungodly time in the morning.

... a starter of thai red curry pork balls, which were delicious followed by shredded Asian chicken salad AND chocolate muffins and ice cream. All very nice. Saturday 11 th October - Al's Bday The day was kicked off perfectly by Anni with B'day blue berry pancakes followed by present opening. We also managed to speak to lots of family and were lucky enough to see Isla (Mark & Sarahs 2 nd ) too, she is very ...

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Hooking back up with Ben here in Sydney has been tons of fun. I mentioned that I was going to head out of the city for a few days to get some serious hiking in and he was keen to come along. He showed up at the train ...