Monday 13th November This morning, after breakfast, we caught a bus to Neutral Bay, had a coffee & went on a ferry back to Circular Quay. From there we took another ferry west to Cockatoo Island, a unique part of Sydney's history. It is the largest island in the harbour & has been a convict prison, a sandstone quarry, girls home, a huge naval dockyard for the construction & repair of ships & is now a campsite with holiday accommodation & an...

Thursday 9th November Did some washing & packed before catching a ferry & a train to Central Station for the 10.17 to Lithgow over the Blue Mountains. The ride is quite impressive after Penrith as the train winds its way up to Katoomba, a famous tourist spot in the hills & then on a zig-zag up to Lithgow a coal mining town in a basin. Here Diana met us & whisked us off on a fascinating route to her property at Triangle Flats, a 200+ hectare a...

Friday 3rd November Anna took us to the airport & we had a quick & comfortable flight to Sydney. Jane tried to use her UBER app but it still thought we were in Perth & wouldn't get us a car from there to Cremorne Point in Sydney so we took a cab & were left at the address to find the unit. This proved somewhat difficult as we couldn't find a building with No 3 on it in this dead ended street. Eventually we found it having walked down to the fe...

Wednesday 1st March At sea again today starting with fog which cleared at about 10 am. After the usual sessions of Spanish & Bridge we had a fairly lazy day. In the evening we went to see the piano, violin duo present their last concert, which was excellent. Thursday 2nd March d*** woke early to see the lights on the coast & then dozed while we entered the Heads of Sydney Harbour, where we anchored about 2km out in the harbour, before the Opera House,...