Canberra Hostels - Reviews and Rates

We are now in Canberra.On from Beechworth we stayed a night in Lake Hume caravan park in Albury,a night in Riverglades caravan park in Tumut.We also stayed in Corryong for lunch. After staying a night in Riverglades, we drove around for two and a half hours to Canberra and now we are staying in Canberra Motor Village for a couple of nights.The w...

Arrived safe and sound in Oz. Unfortunately my entries into the diary have been poor as I have not been able to access the net much. I had a wonderful time in Fiji - which happens to be the tropical paradise that eveyone thinks it is! Just been to get my registration for nursing sorted so I can start working as a nurse. Although I must say that ...

Only two days to go! The excitement (and nervous anticipation) is killing me!!! Be sure to check out the features of the Travelpod site, you can subscribe to be automatically contacted each time we update our journal by clicking on the "Get email updates" underneath our photo in the left margin. Consider doing this if you are interested since we...

When we arrived in Canberra we set about firstly finding a camp site and booked into the closest one we could find. Unfortunately this appeared to be a camp site with a lot of long term residence aka trailer trash, but it had a Barbie so who were we to argue. We also managed to discover that you can buy 4 litres of wine for 15 dollars in a bottl...

On Wednesday I caught the train from Sydney to Canberra and have since been in the warm and welcoming company of my friends Tracy and Nick and their two boys Bertie and Jasper. It has been another wonderful departure from the usual travelling lifestyle for me - and I've loved the dog walking, the cluedo and i-spy playing, the back yard hot tub, ...

While they were here visiting, I took my parents to see some wildlife, first up Mt. Ainslie to look for kangaroos in the wild (we saw a million, naturally) and then out to Tidbinbilla. Some of the artifacts from the fires that they have are amazing, the almost entirely burned Coke machine and the US Secret Service badge were my favorites. Then w...

Hi again all, Well if we ain't spoken recently, G'day! Just to keep you updated, we left Sydney on the 6th April to begin our road trip toward Port Pirie, South Austrailia, where G has a locum job lined up at the beginning of May. First stop was Wollongong, around 2 hrs south of Sydney, not much to tell just a short stop off before crackin on, b...

We have referred to the Lonely Planet a number of times. Do you realise that this company was started by an Australian couple, Tony and Maureen Wheeler, in 1973? I imagine England (him, from Bournemouth, an engineer with an MBA from the London School of Economics) and Ireland (her, a stewardess from Belfast) claim them as their own but they are ...