Down under travelling

Free tram zone in the main central business district is free!! What a novel idea. Spent lots on the Opal card for our travelling around in Sydney so this was appealing. Passed by carts again and met one sister who knows someone I had become acquainted with on the internet and was hoping to meet…

Morning passed by quickly with nothing much at all but had someone to meet at lunch time. Friend of a friend of a friend…. A connection that went around the world. Anyway, lovely to meet Stella and we easily became acquainted. Spent some time eating and sitting outside enjoying the weather. Lovely shady spot in…

On to the next venue. Sydney to Melbourne. Researching, I thought a train would be good so we could see scenery since we had decided not to rent vehicles this time. However, it seemed all the times were for overnight…. So! Air it is! At 1 hr and 10 minutes (plus all the wait time…

After spending some time in the city it was time for a little coastal scenery. What better than to spend an afternoon enjoying the much talked about Bondi to Coogee (or the other way around as we did) scenic walk. At around 6km and not too difficult, we thought we could manage. Even though it…

By mid afternoon we were feeling ok to go out. Since we had a concert to be at by 5 pm we decided to wander the botanical gardens beside the opera house. In the area of the gardens there is a heritage building. Government house. Old and beautiful architecture. I love old doors and windows.…

I will begin by saying, I don’t know how to make this blog private…. Not techie enough, so if I have readers who find this, I’m posting mainly for friends and family. Up to you to enjoy or not… Today was a planned tour of the Australasia Branch of Jehovah’s Witnesses. It resides at Ingleburn…

We decided to save a few indoor things for when it rained…. But other than a little sprinkle overnight it was just cloudy and a little windy. Anyway… we kept to the plan. Took the train to Haymarket. closest station to Paddy’s market. Pretty crazy, busy place. Lots of cheap deals but also some just…

So, when doing the research to travel here I had to learn some of the lingo. Not, ‘G’day’ or ‘good on ya mate’ or any number of local ways of speech but even what they call their downtown core of their cities. So… CBD stands for Central business district. Learning the train system take a…

First day we simply got settled in our hotel and bought a few groceries in the neighbourhood. Napping played a prominent part of the day. So the first full day we decided to take the ferry from Circular Quay to Manly beach. The ferries that go from circular quay go right by the famous opera…