Where would you expect to buy tickets to go on a train? Did you say, 'At
a railway station'? That's what I thought. On our first day in Sydney, I
allowed plenty of time at the Richmond station to buy tickets or cards or
whatever travellers needed. The ticket windows were unattended. This was't a
problem because a sign in each window informed me that tickets were not sold
from the windows anyhow. Then I tried the machine and was told that I
couldn't buy an Opal card from the machine but could only top one up. With
nobody official looking bustling around, I finally asked a maintenance worker
who was tending the garden. He told me I had to go to Woolworths or Coles or a
newsagent. After a ten minute walk to Woolies, I was able to buy a youth's card
for Hudson and an adult one for me. I could have got a concession card instead
of an adult one, but I could only do that online and have it posted to me.
Today at Katoomba in the Blue Mountains, I really wanted to just have a
cable car ride. Was that possible? No, I had to spend $60 which would
take me on all the rides - the cable car, the sky rail and the world's steepest
railway. I guess I could have just had an expensive cable car ride but I had an
adventurous Hudson eager to do the lot. I was happy to do the cable car and the
sky ride on a gondola but a certain grandson called me a wuss - the same
grandson who wouldn't pat a little chicken last week.And yes, I survived the railway.
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