To Mt Kuring-Gai
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Sat 5 Dec 2015 23:57
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Saturday the 5th of December and En
Route to Sydney via Mount Kuring-Gai
 Up we jumped this morning as we are off to
Sydney, very excited indeed. Bear went to collect our little
hire car and I packed a few things for the weekend including the
backgammon set – of course.
   A few new states to the
collection of number plates.
 Newcastle rail –
no more, you have to get the bus to Hamilton ten minutes away.
  Newcastle is all about old and new
buildings and old and new cars. Fashion is as you
fancy. Our first stop was at the local mall for a few bits and bobs. I couldn’t
help get excited at the glass and gleam.
 My very own
Santa.
  Well, colour me happy. We walked into Big
W and there they were. My original ‘action trousers’
have had a very heavy life over the years, I sail in them, do chores, bimble to
showers and I have to say they are a very real favourite item of clothing –
sadly, they are so thin they are beginning to be see-through. On my general list
and certainly not expecting to find them so soon – there we saw the replacement,
not only that but genuine Marvel.
  After gathering a few new bits of tinsel,
crackers and Christmas treats we bimbled off to the camera shop to get a
recommendation for a lens cleaner in Sydney. Along the way we stopped to admire
a traditional Christmas scene in a toy shop
window.
 Out on the motorway we passed a rail bridge, now used as an off-ramp for
cars.
  We loved the way the
road was simply blasted through of the sandstone.
 Very dramatic when we took an off-ramp.
 Our little B+B at Mt Kuring-Gai was owned
and run by a Chinese family. Wery, wery pleased to see us. Soon settled in, I
was allowed to beat Bear at backgammon. Don’t upset
me........Grrrrrr. Oh well, it has been a good day.
   For supper Bear chose a t-bone, veg and chips, I had beef chow
mien that came with a side of fried rice, at seven pounds a piece we
thought the meals were very good value. Time for a good nights sleep as tomorrow
promises to be a memorable one. The breakfast menu had a variety of things to
choose from, we both had bacon, egg and tomato, two
toast and a cup of tea for the princely sum of three pounds fifty. The cost of
living here is clearly so much cheaper than New Zealand and many of the islands
we have visited across the Pacific.
ALL IN ALL ANOTHER BUSY AND FUN
DAY
LOVELY SUNNY
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