Travelog for: SebastienLGreen

...in route to the Blue Mountains now... lots of people visit this area anytime they go to Sydney because of the beautiful nature that surrounds them. Since it's just on the extreme outskirts of Sydney it's a popular destination for tourists...






Now that we've entered the Blue Mountains, as you can see there is LOTS and LOTS of trees and lots of hills... and lots of small little towns... the driving up and down, up and down, our ears popped a lot. It was quite uncomfortable. But closer to the Sydney side of things is a small town called Katoomba. Katoomba is known as the 'Heart of the Blue Mountains'. It's a gorgeous little town, and it seemed quite touristy at the time we went there... Sara said she thought it might be because the pope just left town the day before, and therefore all the tourists now decided to take a bit of a tour around the famous parts of the outskirts of Sydney...



...as you can see lots and lots of cars...






...finally we got to our destination... sadly since it was so busy Sara couldn't take individual photos so Sara just got a photo of something called the 'Three Sisters'. It's a very famous rock formation, if people go through the Blue Mountains they have to stop off and see them. There's also lots of trails to take around, one of them Sara said was extremely steep and hard to climb down, let alone up. So we only spent a little bit of time there, and then we were back on the road...

...Welcome to Sydney... after 3-1/2 to 4 hours drive we're FINALLY here. Sadly Sara says we can't really see anything famous like the harbor bridge or anything... but we suprisingly got pretty close to the famous CBD of Sydney... we had an appointment at 230pm, so it sadly was just that. We did see the famous hospital called "RPA" which is known as Royal Price Albert Hospital that's got a TV show named after it, and is obviously filmed there as well. One of Sara's favourite TV shows. But this wasn't at RPA but more a smaller clinic that is owned by RPA... anyways, here's us navigating around Sydney...


Although it seems like it should be pretty simple and straight forward... you can easily get lost, especially if we're getting close to the CBD. Sara told us about the story a few years ago that Daniel and her were trying to make it to Cronulla (South Sydney) and ended up in Glebe (which is near where we were going - in South Sydney). She told us how they ended up going over the harbor bridge around 3-4 times since they couldn't get off it and had to go back across before turning around. I'm so glad we didn't get lost though... here are some sights from around Sydney... :-)






...and now, we're in Parramatta, we have to get on Parramatta Road which is a huge major road, we've technically been driving on it the whole time but it was called the "Great Western Highway" it goes all the way to Dubbo, so it's a main highway through the state... it was amazing to see the difference between Orange and Sydney, I mean, I knew Sydney was big... but man, there are sure a lot of palm trees as well. :-)


...and now we're almost to the appointment, so here are some more sights around the area we were driving around...


...oh wow, we're getting close... although we couldn't personally go and visit it there's the CBD in the background, can you see it? It's pretty small but you can see the huge buildings on George Street (which is the main street and most famous street along with Pitt Street in Sydney... how cool! I just wish I could have seen a bit more... maybe someday...) here's a close up... :-)


...sadly when we got out of the appointment it was almost 530pm and we couldn't stay much longer. With a cranky child in the back seat and to be honest we were all a bit worn out... it was time to go home... here's the traffic on the road just as we were leaving Sydney...


Well it was a long and busy day, but I hope to go back here some day and visit the more famous parts of Sydney. Maybe my next host will take me on a ferry even around the harbor? Who knows, it was pretty awesome anyways. :-) I hope you enjoyed my trip, I'll update again soon! <3

Hi everyone, I arrived in Queensland and love it here.

This si my hosts third attempt to update but she is having trouble downloading my photo's, so I will tell you what I did,.

I went in the car to Brisbane to work with her and drove over the Story Bridge.
We had lunch at Kangaroo Point overlooking the Brisbane River and watched the ferries and boats.

These photo's are crizle's office, and Brisbane River where we ate our lunch from work.

Early September I stayed on the Gold Coast. It was lots of fun, I went to the beach, and walked to the border of two states, New South Wales and Queensland.
I stayed in a tall apartment overlooking the water.

Photo's of Gold Coast.
The beach just after dawn and our apartment.

I have just had a wonderful holiday driving from Queensland, through New South Wales and Victoria.
Unfortunately some of the photo's were put on a disc which won't work properly on my hosts computer, but I hope you like these ones.
Victoria is a beautiful state and I went to some beaches there, travelled the Great Ocean Road and visited Bendigo Pottery amongst many other adventures.

Continuing my trip, I travelled from Victoria up through the Snowy Mountains Highway to Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.
From there I went to Sydney and the Postcrossers Meet-Up.
I then went to stay at a little place on the NSW coast called Hawkes Nest and liked the beach there.

For my last weekend here, we went up to the Sunshine Coast and I was able to visit the funny Ettamogah Pub, Caloundra Beach for lunch, and best of all, achieve one of my goals.
Yes, I went to the Big Pineapple in Nambour.
It was great fun. I climbed the spiral staircase inside and went all the way to the top.

Today I had to farewell my host and all my Toy Voyager friends and set off alone on another adventure.
I have had a wonderful time in Australia.