Meet me in the Blue Mountains!
After our detour via Brisbane, we arrive one day late in Sydney and immediately set off to Blackheath in the Blue Mountains to meet my long time friend Madeleine. She has a surprise for us, a most interesting place for us to stay. Redcliff is a mansion literarily built on the edge of the Shipley plateau. The house is enormous with many rooms and decks overlooking the Kalimbla Valley, with nobody else around. Europeans only discovered the Blue Mountains in 1813 and it took them 24 years to find a way across the mountain. There is much to see and enjoy. We start in Katoomba and surroundings visiting the Three Sisters and Echo Point. There is also a Wine Festival in the historic Carrington Hotel with winemakers from regions I had never heard of from nearby towns of Orange and Mudgee. I very much like the Shiraz and Pinot Noir from the Burnbrae winery.
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