City Walk Hotel Canberra

... is not an ugly nation when it comes to the fairer sex. I don't remember them being this good looking, Maybe there's just more young people about, maybe it's just cause I'm situated in the historic centre, but they are so striking it sometimes makes you stop, unable to do anything else but wonder how anyone could have the kind of features you just saw and be real. Perhaps if I spoke more Russian my illusions would be shattered, but I suspect not.

Took the camera out on ...

I thought I should write a little postscript now that we are home and have had one night in our own bed. It was quite strange to come home after 7 weeks overseas and especially to find that Canberra has finally had a wet spring and the garden has gone completely crazy - we have grass about half a metre high! It is wonderful to see the transformation of Canberra after so many years of drought although my hay ...

Hey Guys,

OK so here I am on Monday morning at 12.33am sitting up, on the couch surfing website. Looking for potential couches so I can save a bit of money on my travels which would mean I could spend some time in Canada on my treck back to Canberra, oh how I don't want to go back.

I'm freaking out a little bit because this is my first time away from home alone and ...

... visited the Bay of Martyr's, Groto, London Bridge, The Arch, Loch Ad Gorge and the 12 Apostles. We spend an evening at Apollo Bay Caravan Park and continued our way East the following morning. We were fortunate to have the opportunity to meet up with Margo and Ross Davey -- our long lost friends from the Reef Encounter. We spent a lovely evening with them at their home in Angelsea and enjoyed an amazing dinner, lots of ...

... t a lot to see in there - obviously most places are off limits - however you are allowed to wonder around alone, which we did. We also went into to watch Prime Ministers Question Time. It really was one of the most surreal things I have witnessed. For a start, it was weird watching all these people we recognised (from newspapers and TV news) but didn't have a clue as to what they did. Secondly, it's quite scary just how childlike the leaders ...

... time. Indeed, we found people particularly nice in Canberra. First, while waiting for the bus to Canberra from a tiny town called Yass Junction (the first part of the trip was by train, and I felt like a little kid when I saw kangaroos go bounding by--they have quite a vertical jump and easily leaped over four foot-high fences), Paul got to talking with this older gentleman from Canberra who was a wealth of information. From him, we learned that ...

... and Shark attacks! We went to a park with Sarah and her brother and parents and cooked up a barbeque, made for a great relaxing afternoon. Over the next few days we went to the old Lanyon Homestead, an early colonial settlement outside of Canberra, Parliament House, Old Parliament House and the museums. Parliament house was interesting and they have a water feature in a ground floor lobby which runs in such a way that if the ...

... I sat outside while Abby goes into get our tickets. There is a third scenic skyway, a cable condola suspended high over the Katoomba falls gorge. On the way over a door in the floor slides open to reveal a glass bottom. We decided to skip that one. Two were enough. She comes out as says, "she got a deal for all three." I say, "I thought we were only going to do two?", she says, "I know, but it probably won't be that bad". So off we go to the suspended Gondola. It was this large oval ...