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- Canberra
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Canberra Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Canberra, Australia
Second visit to Canberra
... etc. Was quite interesting, but not as big as I hoped. (But then again, it was free.) All in all, I saw a lot more of Canberra than last time. Unfortunately, I had to cancel my plans to visit Melbourne, I would have loved to see more of that city too. But ...
Sydney to the Snowy Mountains
... wife Amanda. Ours was a 14 person bus pulling a trailer for all our gear. Our first stop was the capital of Australia Canberra. Rather interesting story of this city. Way back in 1901 all of the various colonies in Australia decided to become ...
Canberra
We arrived into the capitol city of Australia. Went to Mt. Ainslie lookout and the Canberra Space Dome and Observatory. They had us sit in comfortable chairs, then turned out the lights. Next thing I heard was snoring in the crowd! I just can't say ...
National Museum of Australia
Today we went to the Museum.... what a disappointment.... very comtempory building (which looked cool).... the artifacts inside the building were ok too, but the layout of the building was so bad... you missed bits of the exhibition, you went up levels ...
Canberra
... I must say!! Lucky for me, he decided to give me a break down of the poisonous spiders that inhabit Australia. Interestingly, in Canberra there really aren't any- BUT there are TONS of spiders!! And he made it a point to show me just where ...
Australia Day (and Burns night!)
To celebrate Australia Day my friends and I went to the Parliament House gardens to watch the Australian of the year ceremony and concert. I must say that I felt rather torn as Thurs 25th Jan is Burns Night of course! I wore an Australian flag ...
Black Stump
... and met heaps of fun people that im sure i'll look up on myspace later. I dont know where else i could have danced the night away to a band like the "outback hippies". All in all, Australia is getting better and better....and im not even in Sydney ...
Canberra
... heading to Canberra to spend a few days with the family. This involved flying form Cairns to Sydney then into Canberra. For an international airport, Canberra has very few direct flights!! We arrived safely to a slightly cold cloudy day, ...
Happy Christmas
Happy Christmas, here are a few photo's etc that are on various memory cards but would not upload due to slow server speeds, enjoy. Love, health and peace to you all. Mac, Mable, Carol and ...
Sightseeing i Australiens hovedstad Canberra
... tilbage i bilen igen kørte vi op til udkigspunktet på Mount Ainslie. Her fik vi os en flot 360 graders panoramaudsigt ned over Canberra, afgrænset af bjerge omkring. Byen lå flot i solskinnet med sine rette, lige linjer med veje, parker og søen, som ...
Meeting Place
... . Its name even means meeting place. Purpose built almost entirely from scratch at the time it is still along way from being Australia's premier city. Being pretty interested in history and politics it was an obvious stop to make whilst I was here. There ...
Capital Territory!
... stop them... Another uneventful drive apart from more scary Auzzie drivers - really have no lane discipline! I actually decided to stop before Canberra in a place called Yass - there I found a nice motor inn and had a relaxing nite in front of the TV - ...
Blehk
... drinking tea. Unfortunately this has coincided with us receiving a lot of really awesome recommendations for places to explore around Canberra. There are Kangaroos in the forests of Mt. Ainslie, whos shadow we currently reside in. A little further south ...
Cloudy in Canberra
... and went to the national gallery and museum (both worth doing, some nice stuff in the art gallery in particular). Canberra has a shocking lack of signposts making it very difficult for someone 'directionally challenged' like myself to find my way around, ...
Bush Walk 1
... and rounded ears. Needless to say it was a spectacular afternoon. Afterwards we explored the War Memorial and learned about Australia's Military history. Something I had been curious about for a while but had never made a formal inquisition of. I will ...
Australian Capital Territory
... We free camped that evening on our way to Canberra and "bush tucker Jonno Reesy" got an excellent camp fire going! Canberra is the Aussie b*****d child of a Swindon/Milton Keynes marriage. Purpose built to house the Australian Parliament it ...
Canberra, Capital of Aus
... first going to the National Australian Museum. That was pretty good and had different exhibitions on Land, Fire, Sea and the history of Australia. Following on from that we went to Royal Mint of Australia were all the cash is made and we even got to make ...
Canberra - The Nation's Underdog
... influential people in the country bitch and humiliate their rivals like teenage girls, ON LIVE TELEVISION - really sets Canberra and Australia apart (It tops The Jeremy Kyle Show and I've seen that live thrice). We followed this with ...
Canberra
... shades of red and orange. Even if the capital does not look great, there are still a a few things to visit. Canberra became the capital of Australia because Sydney and Melbourne could not find an agreement: they both wanted to be the one! We took a ...
Resolution
... and making it an apartment on wheels is so popular that every other station wagon to see for sale on Gumtree.com.au (Australia's craigslist) is already retro fitted for it, and comes with camping gear, maps and even some entertainment things, bikes, ...
FAREWELL PICS
Hi everyone!!! Welcome to my first entry! Will be backtracking a bit-back to our farewell in early May at Meche. Thank you to everyone that came it was an awesome night!!!! ...
Canberra
... too hot in the day to sit outside. The centre of the museum consisted of a garden which was a concrete abstract map of Australia. Chris expected to see a garden but no-one gets lucky 100 percent of the time. In the afternoon we visited the Black ...
Børnenes dag i Questacon
Af Lars Vi stod op, da vi vågnede, dejligt med en morgen uden vækkeur. Silje havde set en af de brochurer, vi havde hentet fra turistinformationen om Questacon(svarendende til eksperimentariet i København). Der ville hun rigtig gerne ind. Hun ville ...
Super-sized Milton Keynes
... a town-planner made real in the early 1900's and it works ok but feels a bit sterile. We visited the National Museum of Australia (ok as museums go) and the Parliament building. The latter was built into the side of a hill - rather clever and ...
Traveling to Canberra
It was a long drive to Canberra, about four hours. I saw kangaroos watching cars pass on the side of the road. I found it very unusual because I'm used to deer instead. After this long drive, we went to the parliment house which I found quite similar to ...
Capital City
Since we were asleep by 9 pm, we were up at 6:30 and left the Snowy Mountains for the Australian capital, Canberra. Apparently, many years ago, the Assuies could not decide if Melbourne or Sydney should be the capital, so they just started up a brand new ...
Facts about Australia by Owain Rose
... , and from which Alice Springs draws its water supply. Some of the highest, lowest, oddest and interesting facts about Australia. Highest Mountain: Mainland: Mount Kosciuszco 2,229 metres. The highest point is Mawson Peak on Heard Island at 2,754 ...
The wheels of government
... between places was beautiful. A bit hot but not unpleasantly so. First stop was the New Parliament House - the seat of goverment for Australia since 1988. This is set on a hill, surrounded by a circular road and from the outside looks a bit like a ...