Aghhh! It's our last day in Australia. This morning we were all up early and Catherine left first to meet her travelling companions for the last time before they all flew out. Pete and I had booked on the Bonza Bike Tour. A guided bike tour of Sydney. It was brilliant, there were 12 people on the tour 4 from Canada, 2 Switzerland, 2 Germany, 2 UK, and 2 Australia. The guide was very good and informative, he also gave us plenty of breaks, which was good becau...

Oh my goodness I don't know how we have done it, but we have had another cloudless day. Today we walked to Circular Quay and caught a ferry to Manly Beach. We decided that as we have a bike ride tomorrow we should do a bit of training. We found a rental shop that was doing a good deal and rented a couple of bikes, initially for 2 hours, 4 hours later we returned them. Following a map we tried to follow a path around the coast - unfortunately no bikes were allo...

Today is Anzac Day in Australia a public holiday. This is a day when the troops of the 1st world war from both Australia and anew Zealand are honoured across the country. The serious bit starts at dawn with memorial services starting at about 5.00am then the armed forces parade through the streets with bands. In Sydney there was a fly past of 3 airforce planes. Then everyone goes out and drinks themselves daft, and plays 2up in the pubs, a game the troops use...

Woke up this morning hoping for nice weather, couldn't have got better. Wall to wall blue from dawn till dusk. So good we couldn't even play spot the cloud! Got picked up at 7.45am from the hotel for a trip up to the Blue Mountains. What a fantastic trip. It started with a visit to a visitor information centre where there was a presentation by some Aborigines (all done for the tourists, but hey that's what we are). From here we got our first view of the Jam...

Well here we are in Sydney. A very seamless transfer. We have found a chain of food shops in australia called Pie face. I know it is the nickname given to Pete by Catherine and her friends. Anyway they sell pies strangely enough also this yummy raisin toast, so when we have an early start we have been buying raisin toast for breakfast and making a brew in the room, saving us at least 20 dollars a head. So in Brisbane. We stocked up with the raisin bread and h...