Friday, 18 July 2008

Old Jamie, New Top Gear, Yellow Jersey, Blackheath

With the 'Term of Death' just around the corner we took a little retreat this week to Blackheath (in the Blue Mountains, past Katoomba).

The place we stayed in was both cheap and brilliant. Blackheath is a bit touristy, but it's quiet. Apart from cool things like a gas heater, electric blankets, etc., it also had Austar. Now, let's be clear, ordinarily I wouldn't really care about Austar. However, daily doses of old Naked Chef episodes were just fantastic.

What else did we get up to? We took a short bush walk (about all that Kate could handle these days!).

We read a bit... well, Kate read quite a bit. For the first time in ages she was able to polish off an entire (rather fat) novel in just a few of days! Hoorah for holidays :)


German beer. A few delicately made choclates...


And quite a lot of Le Tour (for me, anyway). I've definitely seen much more of this years Tour than I have of any previous years. If nothing else it has got me really pumped to come back to Tassie and do more riding. (It's hard to get excited about riding around in Sydney. The prospect of riding up and down Mt. Wellington, on- and off-road, is much more enticing).

2 comments:

Mikey Lynch said...

nice to see the photos as always guys! and nice to know chocolate was part of your adventures!

Kate (Pablo's mum) said...

I tried to watch Cadel's final time trial thingy, but I fell asleep. Turns out it didn't matter anyway. Looks really pretty up Katoomba way. Hope y'all are doing well up there.