Katoomba Stories


Blue Mountains

Well, we had a lovely weekend in the Blue Mountains. The ride up there proved to be unbelievably cheap - just under $8 for a 2 hour train ride - and got prettier the further we went. It didn't take long out of Sydney before we were surrounded by trees as far as the eye could see. We felt the temperature dropping a little the further up we went - it was ...


French girls and other mals a la tete

After Glebe, I moved to one of the central YHAs where I stayed in a reconditioned railway carriage on a disused platform next to the real station. Cute. But no picnic when trains came in and sat on nearby platforms revving up. That wasn't the only noise. There were 2 French girls in my 4-share room and from the amount and spread of their crap across the...


Blue Moutains

Today I went on a day trip to the Blue Mountains with a group of international students from UOW. The Blue Mountains are located about an hour west of Sydney and are part of the Great Dividing Range. These mountains have fantastic scenery, excellent bushwalks (aka walking trails in the woods), and heaps of gorges, gum trees, and cliffs. They are called...


Blue Mountains

Blue Mountains The Blue Mountains National Park covers a million hectares, just to the north-west of Sydney. After an easy, scenic couple of hours' drive, we arrived at Wentworth Falls and had our first view of the many ridges and canyons covered in gum forest stretching as far as the eye can see. It is a beautiful and dramitic landscape with toweri...