7am – 8am PA wakes us up requesting we show up for breakfast. Would have been nice for them to give us a bit of notice. Hastily get dressed and head up the corridor for breakfast. See sunrise over outback Australia – quite interesting terrain. Stop to drop off mail at a siding where some … [Read More »]
Archives for June 2004
Indian Pacific Day 2
6:00am – got woken up by the train manager on the PA system wishing us a good morning and to let us know of the days plans. We were due to arrive in Broken Hill at 7:10am, but due to a delay at Ivanhoe while we waiting for an oncoming train to pass, we woke … [Read More »]
Indian Pacific Day 1
1pm – Chose not to lug our bags down to the railway station to catch the train to central – would have just been too painful with all this stuff. This is a celebration, so we’re going to do it comfortably ! Call for a cab instead. Silver Service, naturally. 1:30pm – checked bags in … [Read More »]
Holiday Prologue
Our 10th Wedding anniversary was on the 11th June – to celebrate we decided to take 2 weeks holiday and travel to Perth on the Indian Pacific – one of the longest and most fascinating train trips in the world. Of course, not being one to do things by half, we chose the most expensive … [Read More »]
Holidays !
Yay – finally have two weeks holidays starting today. I really need this – a chance to get away from work and everything that is bugging me there at the moment. I won’t post details about what we are doing or where we are going yet – I’ll wait until I’ve got some reports to … [Read More »]