June 23, 2005
Going to the Blue Mountains on our way to Melbourne was not in our original plan in 2005. However, when we bought the Backtracker travel pass, which gave us two-weeks train pass from Brisbane to Melbourne, it came with a free return ticket to Katoomba in the Blue Mountains. Since its free, we included it as a day trip.
Fortunately, a high school classmate of mine offered their home for us to stay during our 2 night stopover in Sydney. So, when our train from Brisbane arrived in Hornsby, my classmate picked us up at the station and brought us to their place. We had breakfast with his family and right after got a lift from his wife who was on her way to work and uses the train going to the Sydney CBD.
We took a train going to the Sydney Central Station where we were to catch another train going to Katoomba. We heard earlier that it snowed their the night before, so were so excited to go there. This would be our first time to see real snow.
The Carrington Place is just walking distance from the Katoomba train station and this is where we first saw snow, ha ha ha
We also went to see the Three Sisters a famous landmark in Katoomba.
Note: This blog is based on our 2 week travel by train/bus in 2005 from Brisbane-Blue Mountains-Canberra-Melbourne-Sydney-Brisbane and the events are based on memory. Some omissions may have been inadvertently made.
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2 comments:
you had been to australia pala. student? did you work there too? how long you stayed there?
worked full time during the schoolbreak in december to fund our travel to new zealand, ha ha ha. but my wife did work full time for about a year.
the masteral program took me 1 1/2 years to finish at the University of Queensland.
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