Sounds like a fantastic trip! Look forward to the photos! Cheers, Christine
> On Nov 1, 2014, at 2:18 AM, David Mann <[email protected]> wrote: > > G'day cobbers, > > A few days ago I returned from a very enjoyable trip to Straya (as the locals > call it). I had to wait before resubscribing as pdml.net had reached its > bandwidth limit for the month :( > > We started with just over a week in Melbourne where I ran the half marathon > in the running festival. Biggest race I've ever done, 11,000 people were > doing the half. I'm used to the field thinning out a bit after the first > couple of km but this was wall-to-wall runners as far as I could see, both > ahead and behind, for the duration of the race. I ran easy for most of it as > I'd been training through injuries and didn't want any major flareups. > Nevermind the sore feet from all the sightseeing. > > I loved Melbourne, it reminded me a lot of home but it feels more like what > Christchurch should have been. Next time I might organise a day-trip to > check out Geelong. > > After Melbourne we took a train (The Overland) across to Adelaide where we > spent one night before hopping on The Ghan which is one of the country's > great rail journeys. It takes 3 days to head up to Darwin with excursions in > Alice Springs and Katherine. We spent two nights in Darwin which I really > enjoyed, then flew down to Sydney for 3 nights there before returning home. > > I really wish we could have spent more time in each of those locations, > especially Adelaide and Darwin. I am really missing the weather. Our last > day in Sydney was 33°C, the next day back home got up to 11 (today's 25 > almost feels warm enough). > > Photos? Don't hold your breath. I've downloaded them but haven't even > looked at them yet. > > BTW be careful if putting your travel schedule into your calendar. My wife > put ours into a Google calendar and each time we changed time zones it > attempted to be smart and shift the times - it even did this with full-day > events. Which would have been great if she hadn't entered everything as > local times! (I don't know if this is Google's fault or Apple's, at least > it's not mine.) > > Strewth ya bloody galah, > Bruce... I mean Dave > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
