Day: 13 June 2010
Adelaide
We enjoyed our day traveling from Broken Hill and the time seemed to go quickly. The country side changed along the way from arid salt bush country near Broken Hill to green grass around the pastoral area of Peterborough and extensive market gardens just north of Adelaide. Just before arriving in Adelaide, we stopped in […]
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Arriving in Broken Hill
Well, after a very bumpy ride overnight which made sleeping very difficult, we arrived in Broken Hill at 6.40 this morning. It was very cold (1.8c) and I decided to walk along the platform and count the number of carriages on the train. This turned out to be difficult to do as the train was […]
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Leaving Sydney on the Indian Pacific
Our train left Sydney this afternoon at 2.55 pm. We spent a day in Sydney yesterday doing some shopping and then had a wonderful dinner with Jill & Derek King and Graham & Janice Chalkely who we met on our Rhine River Cruise. Jill made a wonderful meal and we chatted until quite late before […]
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