Floriade Canberra

Canberra , Australian Capital Territory, Australia

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  • 1

    Canberra - A Visit to the Capital

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    ... Griffin, Commonwealth Avenue and Kings Avenue, the triangle gave us a lovely scenic tour of Canberra. We stumbled across 'Floriade' the Canberra Spring Flower Show which, much to his excitement, I dragged Dan around - the flower displays were based on a ...

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    Canberra: One Way Fitness Enthusiasts

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    ... places you wouldn't if you went direct in a taxi. so my journey to the AIHW took in the national University of Australia, Calvary Hospital and the Australian Institute of Sport. Did a not-long-enough visit to the Australian War Memorial (which is ...

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    The Nation's Capital

    ... , only directly to Canberra. Had to take it, merimbula could not afford another night. Getting to Canberra, i didn't take into consideration that the Floriade was in progress. Its the largest and most famous flower festival in the Southern Hemisphere. ...

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    Easy Canberra Days

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    Canberra is the political capital of Australia and we visited parliament house, the war memorial, the captain cook fountain, the NASA sponsored deep space relay station and a wonderful celebration of flowers in Floriade.   We've had an amazing ...

  • 5

    Wot no buses?

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    ... but presented in a modern format so was interesting. After walking back along the lake to the Commonwealth Park where the Floriade festival is held, we thought to spend the afternoon mooching amongst the flowers. We went into a marquee where a ...

  • 6

    Biscuits don't come free

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    ... 'decent' airline food anyway depending on your perspective. So hurray for CountryLink trains. Naturally being Australia there was announcements about ordering dinner, collecting dinner and announcements about announcements which were very entertaining ...

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    A Flowerful Day

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    Rhoda, another Filipina friend invited me to join them for a day trip to Canberra today to see the annual tulip festival called the Floriade. This year's theme - "Carnivale" We have a packed car with Rhoda, Riza, Bianca, me and Sid as our driver. ...

  • 8

    Canberra Flowers in Spring

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    ... with a tv surprisingly. It is in the middle of town. We decided to get straight on to the business of tourism. The Floriade is an annual spring flower festival which takes place in one of the large parks near the manmade lake. Free entry and ...

  • 9

    Canberra

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    ... in this blog.  I should point out, yet again, that I am a fan of architecture! As it is the Capital of Australia, Canberra has a number of decent restaurants, and since it was Helens birthday we went out on a couple of nights to expensive and ...

  • 10

    Canberra and Good Bye to Aus for now!!!

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    ... were also very nice and helpful. After lunch I caught the bus into New Parliament House. I should tell you that Canberra is the Capital of Australia - after prolonged wrangling of 9 years, Melbourne and Sydney could not agree on which one would be the ...