Hi, and thank you for allowing me to join this forum.
We are planning to travel from Bowraville NSW mid north coast, to Canberra ACT, end of March and returning in April (heading to first grandchild's first birthday )
We do not wish to travel through Sydney or greater Sydney...the roads!...the traffic!
Need advice on the best route to take, particularly avoiding big mountain climbs like Waterfall Way and Oxley Hwy.
Thought maybe head off the Pacific Hwy and going down Putty Rd (but no idea if that is suitable for towing a van!
This is our first time of "proper"touring since buying our 30 y o Viscount. (we did a 2 night practice go at Urunga last year). Our tow vehicle is a Nissan X Trail.
Suggestions welcomed for over-nighting or 2 x ove-rnighting along the way also appreciated
G'day Maz666, and welcome to the forum. I'm still in WA so cannot help much worth your inquiry, thought do suggest maybe putting it in general as there are many who don't check out the intro area. Will say however that there are plenty of great folks and good advice to be has here.
Welcome to the forum maz666, - as you know Sydney now basically extends from the coast to the mountains it's difficult to bypass it without crossing the Great Divide which usually means climbing some hills. You can use the Putty Road but you are still going to hit Sydney's western sprawl at Windsor. If your intending on backtracking to the Putty Road from Hexham instead of taking it I would just stay on the Golden Highway and go out through Mudgee, Bathurst, Cowra, Yass to Canberra. Stay a night at Mudgee and sample some of their fine, foods and wines while you are there. It would be a bit shorter if you used the Waterfall Way across to Armidale then the New England to Muswellbrook but you will still get to the Golden Highway via Newcastle with no real climbs or windy roads to worry about. The choice for you will be either negotiate some traffic in Sydney's outer west or do the extra kilometres required to bypass it - I suppose it will depend on how much of a hurry you are in. Safe journey and enjoy your trip, we will be heading out to the Mudgee region from Newcastle ourselves sometime in March.
Ooooow the Devils number 666 will watch with interest
Woody
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I remembered reading somewhere that the so called devil's number was not actually 666 so I went and found this on a website. No idea whether it's valid or not but it's probably what Stephen Fry was referring to.
"In 2005, the number was revised, or should have been, to 616 because of a discovery made in an ancient Egyptian dump just outside of Oxyrhynchus. A large collection of really old papers, most of them unreadable, were discovered. Among them was a piece of a third-century manuscript that just happened to be from the Book of Revelation. In this piece, as well, was the new number, 616, given as the number of the Beast".
This isnt just some random number either. According to Professor David Parker, numbers were often used in ancient days to disguise the name of an enemy. In this case, 616 probably refers to Emperor Caligula of the Roman Empire, the non-Christian ruling power in the world at the time.
So 666 becoming 616 is significant to the interpretation of the Book of Revelation, lending more credibility to the idea that its not a prediction of an actual apocalypse yet to occur, but a political criticism of the Roman Empire, hidden in symbols and numbers to avoid an imperial response."
Good news is MAZ616 is probably still available - bad news is that people are going associate your plate to some model that was released by Mazda back in the 90s.
-- Edited by The Belmont Bear on Thursday 12th of January 2017 11:05:22 AM
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