2018 – Part 9 – The Carrington Hotel
Hotel Review: Carrington Hotel, Katoomba
The approach to the hotel is as iconic as the building and its history, a steep incline up to stop in the front courtyard that allowed us to check in.
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2018 – Part 08 – Journey from Sydney airport to Blue Mountains (Katoomba)
We need wheels!
Our rental car was offsite, and once we found our pick-up location the shuttle arrived in 10-15 minutes. Although it was breezy, for 11am it was warm, over 20C. I could take the challenge to see if I could handle this kind of weather.
Once we arrived at the rental car location we were assigned a Toyota Camry, and could have any colour so long as it was white. It was fairly new as it had a back up camera and both USB and Bluetooth connections for the stereo. Once we remembered that the driver’s side was on the right side of the vehicle, we filled up the trunk with our luggage, and began our trek to our first stop, a mall!
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D-Day beaches
Our final full day in France had two goals in mind: visit D-Day beaches, safely return to Paris and if time allowed drop by the dollop of Americana, Disneyland Paris.
We were up early to make the most of being outside before another hot day squeezed the energy from us.
Mont Saint-Michel
After sleeping in, our day no longer include the hour long commute to the Le Mans track. After attending the 24 hours of Le Mans I had two distinct thoughts:
24h Le Mans Finale
The heat from Saturday continued into Sunday. We arrived at the track late in the morning, a little before 11am. Before I caught the Porsche #2 celebrating after taking the checkered flag a lot occurred.