Blog 7 Blue Mountains, February 21st

We said our fond farewells to David Elizabeth and Alf on Friday morning. Heres a shot of Alf aged 88, looking good.

We had a great time with them on the beautiful beaches south of Melbourne and were surprised to find beach huts.

Our friend Alan Coleman picked us up from Dandenong and we had a day exploring the city finishing up in an authentic French restaurant for dinner. As you can see from the pictures a good time was had by all and Alan booked us into the RAC Club in Melbourne for the night where Sue took advantage of the large swimming pool and spa.

It was very luxurious but next morning we flew back to Sydney to collect a hire car for the next part of our adventure to the Blue Mountains.
It was quite what we had expected, as we drove out of Sydney it started to rain and as we drove higher the rain was coupled with dense fog so we could see absolutely nothing of the supposedly wonderful views. We couldn’t even find a cafe open for a cup of tea until we were nearly at our destination, Blackheath. When we did find one it had run out of bread for sandwiches, so we settled for a meat pie and a scone, with “plastic” jam! Not quite what we were expecting. We drove on and as we approached Blackheath out of the murk Sue spotted the “St Mounts Boutique B&B”, our destination. Not sure ‘boutique’ quite describes it, definitely old and rather shabby, probably dating back to 1900 or thereabouts and looked as if it hadn’t been decorated since then! Some contrast to the RAC Club, but it did turn out to have the only decent restaurant in the area. Dinner finished by 8.30 so we went to bed early in the hope that tomorrow might be a better day. We shall see, log on for the next episode as John & Sue explore more of Oz.

Sorry for the lack of pictures today, I'm having roublewith the local server, will try to add them tomorow.