Tuesday, December 10

We've been in NSW for a couple of weeks, spending time with Robyn at Lake Illawarra, and weekends with Anne and Alan at Turramurra.  Marilyn likes to be in Sydney at this time of the year when her nieces and nephews are involved in various end-of-year activities. 

Apart from that, we sat around a lot chatting, haunted various shopping centres and travelled on public transport.  We had hope to be among the first to travel on the new light rail service from Circular Quay to Randwick but the starting date has been pushed up to December 14th so had to be content with a trip in the new Mwpetro line between Chatswood and Epping.  We were unsure how we felt about a driverless train but it was an interesting journey, and the up-graded stations at Chatswood and Eeping were impressive.

From Epping, we continued on to Central on the tired old line through Strathfield and we saw how much needs to be done to drag Sydney Rail into the 21st century.