Day 25 & 26 Coffs Harbour to Melbourne

Early start at the youth hostel as we packed up and carried our gear to the station.  We had to make 2 trips, one to take the bikes and gear over and another to take the bike packing boxes.  We packed the bikes in the boxes at the station while we were waiting for it to open.  Checked in the luggage and train headed off at 7:40 am.

Travel on CountryLink was pretty good.  Fair bit of room in the seats and a smooth ride.  Not much to do on the train so we looked at the bush we passed through and read our books.  We both went through a few.

Eventually got to Sydney Central at about 4:30 pm.  There were no lockers for us to put our stuff in and the Luggage area was officious and unhelpful, so we headed off carrying our gear.  Our next train was not due to leave until 8:40 pm so we decided to kill a bit of time by going to a movie.  Went to the George St Cinemas and saw The Mechanic.  This is a remake of the original, made in the 70's, that had Charles Bronson and Jan-Michael Vincent in it.  Stick with the original, the one we saw was needlessly violent and was unrealistic.  Still it filled in the time.


We then had some noodles in Chinatown and headed back to the station.  The train was running a bit late, but we spent the time having a chat to a guy who ran a school outdoor education program and had just come back from New Zealand where he had take Year 10s on the Otago rail trail.


Got on the train for the long trip from Sydney to Melbourne and after reading for a while tried to sleep for as much of the trip as possible.  Many people on the train.  I didn't realise so many people traveled by train.


Had a bit of a holdup when we were about 25 minutes from Southern Cross station as another train had damaged the line.  We ended up being about 45 minutes late getting to the station.


We unloaded the bikes and luggage and Joe's wife Lisa picked us up and ferried us home.  Thanks Lisa.

Great to be home and loved the balloons and banner.