I'm all snivelly today having inexplicably caught a cold! My head feels like it's in a vice, I can't stop sneezing and I got literally two hours worth of sleep last night so I'm not really in peak physical shape. But I'm attempting to nuke the cold with extra strength vitamin C tablets and I like to think that the Strongbow I necked last night might have contributed to my five a day... We're back in Sydney now, having caught the train from Katoomba this morning....

For the second consecutive evening I am drunk whilst fulfilling my blog obligations. I've moved onto the Strongbow tonight and it's like being back at home... We've had a smashing day today, exploring Katoomba and visiting the Blue Mountains. We started off by wandering to Echo Point, from which we took in the awesome (only word for it) panorama over the Jamison Valley, looking out at the Three Sisters. It was just incredible with a carpet of trees hundreds of m...

I'm in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains, full of cider and thai green curry and am consequently a very happy bunny. We left Sydney this morning absolutely comatosed from lack of sleep and so wrote today off as a casualty of travelling, saving our sightseeing for tomorrow. Therefore there's not a lot to report. Katoomba seems really cool - it's only a little town in the mountains but there is a disproportionately large number of cafes and secondhand book shops whic...

When I woke up this morning I could see the sun peeping through the blinds... and it stayed out all day! As predicted, all of the sights looked a million times more attractive and we played a blinder by postponing our trip to Manly until today. This morning we strolled down to Circular Quay to get some better shots of the Opera House and it was definitely worth it. With the light reflecting off the different tiers of the roof it looks so sexy (strange word to de...

The sun came out for all of about an hour and a half today and whilst it was there it was glorious! Unfortunately, when we got up it was grey and rainy again so we postponed our trip to Manly until tomorrow, in the blind hope that things might perk up climate-wise. We decided to wander into the Inner West area of Sydney under the premise of finding a book shop but really to see another area of the city. I had a bit of a funny turn again though so we had to go si...