Day 5- Saturday 27th July 2013 It's a Unesco World heritage site and i have to admit it is a very beautiful area of natural beauty which has remained remarkably uncommercialised. As promised i am now sat by the fire in the hostel resting my weary legs as the terrain certainly took its toll on them. We decided today to descend towards the valley floor- hint in the word descend as to what’s coming next. -a steep descent of over 900 steps which seemed more li...

Day 4 – 26th july 2013 Crisis averted! Last night we suddenly noticed that the laptop wasn't recharging itself and with only 30 mins power left and the prospect of 3 days tucked away in the Blue Mountains- believe me that was a crisis. Anyway an early morning trek into Sydney resulted in a new charger unit- seems to be a thread running through our foreign expeditions. Think this calls for some serious research when we get home in anticipation of future tra...

Day 3 25th July 2013 Another early start with the Gerbil. At 5.30 he was up- I’m sure he would have been spinning on his wheel had he got one-instead he was tackling the shower, cleaning his teeth and then annoying me (who was trying to get some sleep before the sacred ibis started his morning roll call) Needless to say by 3.30 pm we popped back to the hotel- he laid on the bed and nodded off.- leaving me to do the laundry. No difference there then. Anyw...

G'day from Down Under (the world that is not the duvet) At last i’ve managed to get a chance to sit and catch up with the blog for those of you, including National security, who like to keep tabs on our movements.   Well here we are in the land of sea, sun and surf- in the middle of winter. John soon discovered even Australia has cold weather. 17 degrees here in Oz -32 degrees back home. For those who remember his famous quote last time around tha...

Smile because it happened " Dr Seuss Well we made it back - 2 long 7 hour flights from Kuala Lumpur- one to Dubai and then another from there to Birmingham. Unfortunately Johns rucksack decided it wanted to spend a bit longer in Dubai and it didn't fly home until the following day so we had a slight delay in getting the rest of the blog finished. That being on account of the fact that the netbook charger was safely packaged in Johns rucksack, Anyway its now safe...