All of us are now back together and finalising the packing to get home .. Checking the bag weights, we are just inside our allowance even with all the goodies and coral !! Luckily John's wonderful old "Holden" swallowed up all the luggage into the boot and off we went to the airport.. On the way had to make a quick stop at the "camper van depot", to retrieve the sat nav bracket that we stupidly left in van on return.. This done, it's off to the airport where we...

So poor Lis had to go to work and the rest of us headed for Sydney for our city visit John and The Aus4 went to Manly on the ferry Queen Mary 2 was in the harbour which was fabulous to see :-) It was 31 degs and beautiful sunshine at Manly beach and we had lunch in the sunshine soaking up every ray we could before coming back to England with - temperatures :-( We made our way back to central station to meet Lis and booked in to our amazing apartment which Lis...

Today we had to return the camper That all sounds very easy doesn't it? The decision to use this company was yet again confirmed to be a wrong one ! They had moved location 6 months ago but had given us old paper work which had the old address on This sounds trivial but when you are driving a 6 berth camper , with a car following , in a city around the international airport area where the sat nav at one time drove us into a building site , it took us an hour to ...

Yes the sun did shine and so we hit the road early and made it to Katoomba It was so worth the wait The boys were in their element taking photos and the views as I am sure you will agree were breathtaking Actually the sun shone ALL day and it was about 26 degs ......perfect! We are now back at John and Lis's making our plans for our few days in Sydney Our adventure is nearly over but the memories will be with us forever xxx

Today started with more rain , so no swimming but we had a good walk around the beautiful site before we left I hope you will see from the photographs how colourful the trees were and what a lovely location the site was in ....the wildlife seemed to like it too! We decided to head on down towards Coffs Harbour to see whether we would be able to use the Pacific Highway to get back down south as it had been breached in several places during the floods and we had ...