Leaving Sydney, to Muswellbrook: Tuesday 22 May 2012 A clear windless sunny day and our GPS Genie led us out of big bold Sydney. I did enjoy Sydney and all its attractions! As I followed Dave in the traffic I was so thankful we had the GPS, and the speaker system for our helmets, as this has made finding our way around big cities and towns so much easier. We rode via Windsor and soon came to another beautiful part of the Great Dividing Range, the Wollemi Natio...

Train tripping Intrepids - 21st May 2012 Still squeezing all the value that we can out of the cheap concession travel, so we decided to ride as far south as these fares would carry us. Destination Kiama 120km south of Sydney. Kiama is pretty little seaside town with its main claim to fame being its Blowhole. It meant being a bit more organized and onto the train into Sydney a bit earlier as we had to change to the Country Service at Central station and as the...

Sunday 20 May: A day at the Sydney Maritime Museum. A lightly rainy day, so off we went by train again to explore the Sydney Maritime Museum on Darling Harbour. As usual we took ages to browse the whole place, very interesting. I now have a new respect for sailors; a look around a battleship The Vampire made me realise how hard a sailor's life must have been, especially in war time. Film footage of tragedies at sea in war time helped this impression. I have so...

Ferry to Parramatta and then to Culture: Saturday 19 May 2012. When Dave and I got back to our Shangri-La tent last night after our romantic night out in Darling Harbour and Chinatown we found our tent was surrounded by other tents and cars. An invasion! The morning brought us sounds of lots of happy children playing and singing, and we found we were surrounded by a big family of Indonesian campers, all related and having a bush weekend away from Sydney. They...

Taronga Zoo, Harbour at night and Dining in China Town - 18th May Trish has had her heart set on going to Taronga Zoo and in particular seeing the gorillas. As it turned out I'm glad she did. Our usual old folks tickets for $2.50 all day got us into the city by train then over to Circular Quay and the Ferry to Taronga. Prices for the zoo seem rather high at $44 an adult or in our case $31.50 for concession. A really expensive day out for families. Somehow we...