Comfort Inn Downtown Canberra

... Eiffel Tower, full-bodied reds al fresco in picturesque villages on the Amalfi coast, sangria on the streets of Barcelona, steins at Oktoberfest, schnapps in Austria, ouzo in Greece.....mmmm, my shout. We plan to do them all - and more. [May have to consider naming this blog "a world of booze"!]<br><br>After covering your A-Z of universal beverages, we returned to reflect upon the present surroundings. We realised: As much as we're looking forward to sloshing ...

We have driven up the east coast, scince our last blog, visiting little towns and beaches. We have enclosed a picture of Camel rock at Bermagui, having spent lunch at the beach. <br><br>It was then a 3 hour drive from Batemans Bay to the capital Canberra. We spent a few hours looking around the city, which is based around the lake that has a massive ...

... for dinner. She had invited me over for dinner and, to celebrate my arrival, decided to cook some kangaroo steaks&#8230; AMAZING! It&#8217;s a red meat, but has very barely any fat and is quite tasty! I&#8217;ll definitely be buying some more while I&#8217;m here! On my way to her house, I saw my first (live) kangaroo.. I was sooo excited!! It was about 5-6 foot tall and was about 5 feet away from the car. I got back home around 11pm and proceeded to pass out for the next 10 hours!

Another late start and off to Questacon! Went to one of their shows and of course, John was picked from the audience to get on stage. He had to hit a ball with a racquet with the guy running and the show and of course John took it very serious and refused to lose (it wasnt a competition). The packed audience enjoyed his competative side. We spent the morning ...

... outside in a hut, they are good craic. Beside it is a nice rose garden (designed by Broinowksi) which was not in bloom yet but from where we could hear classical music being played from the Carillon across the lake. Then directly behind the old parliament (which is now a portrait gallery) is a another walk up to the new parliament which cost the Aussie tax payer au$1.1billion and has a cool grass roof which you can walk up and look over to Mt. Ainslie and see the war ...

... fordi den spændte over alt fra billedkunst, film og musik til design af køkkengrej og tøj. Mia og Chiara var sammen hele dagen og aftenen med. ( MIA) " Vi startede med at tage hjem til Chiara .Vi satte mormor og morfar af ved den nærmeste station og saa kørte hendes mor os hen til det der gerne skulle være den sydlige halvkugles største shopping center kaldt "Chadstone". Vi gik rundt og kiggede paa tøj og sko og fik ogsaa lidt at spise derinde. Efter det tog vi ...

... started passing through an area with large lakes, not connected to the sea. Here there were pelicans and pied shags, all perching or fishing in the forest surrounded waters. A detour took us through the old village of 'Tilba Tilba', which has been preserved by the National Trust. Onwards and the forests were becoming thicker, with only the occasional sight of any fields but plenty of forest fire damage. The road stayed inland and ...

... welches den groessten Teil des Hauses umfasst und so die kalten Naechte in Canberra zur Winterszeit ertraeglich macht. Es fehlen aber Doppelglasfenster, Isolation in den Waenden und warme Sachen (weshalb die meisten Canberrianer mehrere Lagen Pullover und T-shirts tragen). Am Abend teffe ich dann zum ersten Mal meinen Hausfreund Guy, der bald mein bester Freund in Australien werden soll.

... with her) I know we were like WTF as well!!!...What was even funnier was that while she took to calling Laura 'special' she was in fact the one sitting with 4 make up pads stuck to her face for 45 mins before she remembered to remove them! Although Joy deciding it was appropriate to go into hysterics and laugh in her face when she saw this may have been a bit tactless but hey...she started it by calling Laura Special!! Saturday ...

... we didn't have a clue who they were until we got chatting to jim the security guard the proud owner of todays plate of the day see photo - no it doesn't belong to the prime minister as we thought but jim will sell if the price is right! Jim tells us we can wander around the new parliament building so we go take a look ending up with our very own tour guide Judith (who has been to the houses of parliament in London so was very gracious to us when she realised we were poms- going out ...