On the Road

We left Brisbane on Tuesday morning and, after a couple of fights with Sheila (our GPS), we eventually found ourselves heading up to the escarpment town of Toowoomba. Beautiful gardens, chocolate box pretty houses, very cute. We were loving the Australian countryside - I have loads of pictures of the scenery. We invented a game: Which South African town does this remind you of? We had Swellendam, Greyton, Riversdale, Potch, Boksburg, Orkney snork nie and a few others. Truly, its hard to believe just how similar so many of the places are to familiar SA towns.

To further get into Aussie mode, we "treated" ourselves to a Slim Dusty CD - and had Asutralian country music pumping though Bruce's speakers. Keep on truckin'!!!

Sheila has been a little touchy today - we have had a few tiffs with her. Andre tried to tell her to go to a town, and she insisted on a street address - here is a picture outside the house she directed us to - I insisted that we drive directly to it! Andre is re-programming her for Sydney here. We had a little moment at one point: driving off the highway to find a petrol station, Sheila got very upset with us and kept saying "RECALCULATING", through gritted teeth. Then she said, "Please stay on highlighted route," in a very strained and annoyed tone.

We started to ignore her, and she lapsed into a sulky silence.

Driving into Sydney was really magnificent. We managed to drive over the Harbour Bridge at only our second attempt. I snapped this pic of the Opera House through the back window of the car - we will do a more thorough look tomorrow.

Thanks for all your comments and messages on the blog, Facebook and email. I know some of you are battling to post on the blog. I have tried to open it up - and seem to have managed for some of you.

Good night from Sydney.