The Blue Mountains

As we’ve said before, sometimes places you’ve been looking forward to seeing fail to live up to your expectations, either because they’re really not all that good or just because you’re over-excited about it. However, like the waterfall in Laos, there was no sense of anticlimax when we went up to the Blue Mountains near Sydney.

We drove up to Katoomba (actually Bill drove – in the same way as we claim to have driven the Alaska Highway, actually it was Bill. Or Chris. Or Gavin) and then went down the Giant’s Stairway (900 steps - there were some eager idiots coming up on our way down) and along the path to the terrifying vertical train on a rope thing. The walk was good but all too short; it would definitely be worth spending a few days up this way and taking the time to hike for longer and explore more of the area.