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I’ve gone a whole month since my last blogging. Yes it’s the new year and we’ve had Christmas too. It’s been a busy time too, with a trip down to Ocean Grove though most exciting of all, to Sydney.

First of in Sydney, I did the usual. I walked down through the Sydney Royal Botanical Gardens to the Opera House, also where I could see the Harbour Bridge. I then took a ferry under the Harbour Bridge to Darling Harbour, though via Balmain. I got some great shots on my digital camera, only to realise that I had it set to the lowest resolution! On Saturday night I caught up with a friend and her friends to see the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the Domain. On Sunday I checked out Bondi Beach with a few other people.

Probably the most exciting thing I did was on Monday when I took a train up to Katoomba in the Blue Mountains. I did a walk down the Furber Stairs from the Katoomba Cascades then took the Scenic Railway back up. I then did a walk from Honeymoon Lookout to Echo Point where the Three Sisters are. I was a little disappointed by the over development around Katoomba since the last time I was there 14 years ago. For example, Echo Point is more or less a bus terminal now. The train trip up there was interesting in its own right as well, especially where the train enters the mountains. You see some very nice bush and the train goes through these deep yet narrow cuttings. You also see Glenbrook station which happens to be the station used in Spellbinder. Once up in the mountains you get some spectacular valley views though it does seem fairly suburbanised again after this point though not necessarily all bad.

On the last day I took the ferry over to Manly, though the weather wasn’t that great. Still it was a fairly nice trip to make before heading home to Melbourne.

On returning home I discovered that the storms had killed the hard disk in my mail/www/jabber server. I wasn’t too keen to fix it for the first day or so, however, after a few days I did a new install and miraculously the hard disk started working for long enough to recover my data.