Up in the air again

Headed up, up, up this amazing cable car. Found we were at the end of a long queue waiting to buy tickets for the cable car. We looked warily at the long, long queue that had formed to actually get on the cable car. I calculated it would take us 20 minutes in the payment line and another 30 minutes in the actual line. Roger calculated at least an hour and a half in each!!!

When we finally arrived at the counter we realised that we had to pay double price because we were foreigners..... what we didn't realise was that this entitled us to express service and we headed straight to the front of the line! Whoopee!

We headed up, up, up for 2o minutes so reminded me of time we went up the chair lift from Thredbo. We were the pommies who believed everyday in Oz was hot - no matter where you were and so headed up the chair lift in T shirts and shorts. Everyone was pointing and laughing as they saw us go up.... we FROZE hopping off at the top and heading straight back down again.

Lots of people were putting their bikes on the cable car and then careering down narrow, precipitous mountain trails to the bottom.

We were quite content to identify flora.... yeah lots of species of eucalyptus and then at the top it was fantastic to look at the volcanoes and see the vast expanse of the city. Walked for a couple of hours listening to the strains of the ubiquitous pan pipes... had fun imitating statues, unfortunately for me that meant a lot of virgin stuff and for Roger the conquering hero... oh well!