Study Tour Highlights

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Cathy & I are in Australia although we’ve not been together that much.

Cathy came out on 1st October and has spent 4 weeks with daughter Nik and Granddaughter Solli doing all sorts of home improvement projects. I did my share too... but we’ll spare you the details..

I then went off to do a Railway Study tour, organised by the Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport (where I’ve been a member for over 40 years...good grief). We did a week in Sydney when I commuted into the City but stayed at Nik’s, and then a week in Melbourne.

There is no need to reherse the various seminars, visits to tram depots and construction sites etc., but we did do a few very worthwhile touristic things which I’ll summarise here and include a few photos.

A dinner cruise round Sydney harbour, on a splendid evening.

A behind the scenes climb up the clock tower at Central Station Sydney

A great steam train ride on a heritage line several hours out from Sydney

A 12 hour train ride to Melbourne included two rides in the cab... very cool

A coach tour along the Great Ocean Road - which CJC and I did back in 1997.

A tour of the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground, with dinner overlooking the hallowed pitch

A visit to Sovereign Hill near Ballarat.....back in time like Beamish but with a goldmine, stagecoach and much else..

More tomorrow including Cathy’s overnight train journey to MelbournE.

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Comments

[Christine]

Oz again?!
How many apostles are left?

[Travels with Cathy and Steve]

Yes...this trip was driven by the CILT study tour...too good to miss!
And it’s been 10 months since we were her last. I remember the 12 Apostles from 1997 ...there are only I now that I could count, but new ones get created as well as destroyed by time and tribes..