Kangaroo Valley to Katoomba NSW: Thursday 10 May 2012. We woke up to find Kangaroo Valley shrouded in mist and it did look beautiful. Got away at 9am and rode through Fairyland to leave the Valley….the twisty mountain roads were awesome to see, with lots of emerald green and big ferns to grace our views. First stop was at Fitzroy Falls just out of town, but they wanted money to stay so we hopped on our bikes and left. Then through lovely mountain roads all ...

Canberra to Kangaroo Valley; Wednesday 9 May 2012 After a foggy Canberra start in the morning, Dave and I rode out of Canberra in the cold, through Queanbeyan, to Bungendore and Braidwood, both cute little old villages, via the Kings Highway. We stopped for a Subway lunch at Batemans Bay and it had got quite hot by then, so we stripped off our winter motorcycle gear to cool down. Then up the busy Princess Highway for a while and through Ulladulla (love the nam...

Budget Day 8th May Having decided to stay on for the Budget at Parliament House, the big day had finally arrived. In the morning we packed up the tent etc. and moved into a cheap motel unit at the Caravan Park. This would allow us to be out at night for the Budget and then up early without a pack up ready for the next adventure. We still had a list of things we could do in Canberra, so we decided to go back to the War Memorial and do the ANZAC Walk, which ...

Saturday 5 May 2012: Research in Canberra. Today Dave wanted to spend some time at the National War Museum checking up some research files for his dear old Dad, who served in the Navy in the New Guinea region in World War 2. There were people in the research section who were helpful to him, while I had a look through the Nurses display, finding out how incredibly brave and enduring the nurses who went to war were. They saw the poor wounded and dying soldiers a...

Thursday 3 May2012: National Art Gallery, Canberra Today we visited the National Art Gallery to get ourselves cultured. Lots of beautiful paintings and sculptures. An early colonial artist Eugene Von Guerard had a special exhibition; I enjoyed seeing his historical paintings, which shows what Australia was like before it got changed by white settlers. My favourite painting was a huge one by Brett Whitley…he sure had style and made it look good. We were taken...