There was a parrot in the camp this morning! The cheeky little fellow was after my breakfast and ingored all requests to keep out of the van! He would have landed on my shoulder had I let him and certainly wasn’t shy! We bid some fond farewells to Sydney and continued our travels northwards, feeling… Read more

North Ryde, our local train station, was once again spookily deserted of people as we descended down to the platforms.. A train ride over ‘the bridge’ and a connecting bus soon put us down on the sands of one of Australia’s most famous beaches – Bondi. As far as beaches go, it was a ‘beaut’… Read more

For those with the time, inclination and motivation, there is a little bit of rock climbing to be found around the Sydney area: the best of which is at Narrabeen. There is a mix of bolted and trad climbs as well as an Australian type of bolting called carrot bolting. I’ve never come across this… Read more

We’re out of the mountains now and have spent the day (and well into the night) exploring in the city! Surely no trip to Australia would be complete without a visit to this most famous and iconic place. We had a fantastic introduction to the city, by walking across the harbour bridge. We’d left the van… Read more

A crisp winters morning was what greeted us today. Still, if the haze of clouds would only part, there was a chance that we might get some climbing done. Optimisticly, we set off to the of cliffs Upper Shipley, wearing almost every layer of clothes that we’d got.  It’s an impressive cliff and very well… Read more

Learnt on the news tonight that the area of Australia that we’ve just driven through, has been experiencing the worst weather it’s had in years. Luckily, we got through unscathed, although we did have to dodge plenty of fallen trees on the inside lanes of the freeway! Fields were flooded and we were constantly buffered… Read more