Today we left Canberra my new favourite capital city and set off for the five hour journey to the Blue Mountains which are world heritage listed. We left Canberra in glorious sunshine and drove for a few hours as the temperature increased and finally hit a max of 34C. We had planned to make a couple of stops but unfortunately we hit a road block where a woman had crashed her car on the bend, police, ambulance and the fire brigade were all around and we were originally told that the road should be open again in a few minutes. After about 20 minutes they admitted that they were having problems getting her out of the car and it looked like the flying doctor had been called for as the police went and stood in the nearby field, luckily a local told us how we could avoid this so we turned the car round, hoped that should would be ok this close to Christmas and started driving along roads that I don’t think the Sat Nav would have found but the guy that had told us where to go was confident would help us and he was right we eventually got back onto the route that we had planned but we had spent about an hour on the detour so we stopped at the next town to have some lunch then continued the drive and didn’t bother to stop in any of the other towns which was actually a good thing by the time we had stopped to buy some supplies and finally found the milking shed where we are staying tonight a storm came in which was a proper storm, thunder, lightning and torrential rain! Luckily we had unloaded the car and were settled by the time it set in but I don’t think we will be watching much TV tonight as we seem to have a TV aerial rather than cable, never mind they have a selection of films, a wood fire and we have plenty of food and drink so there are worse ways to spend the evening.
