Olims Canberra Hotel

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Oh – by the way, if any of you are interested in renting Jean-Jacques and Brigitte’s house in Sète, you can find all the details as well as some pictures on the web at http://www.holiday-home.com/objekt_e.as px?OBJ=20246 (hope the link works).

01.05.09: We are tired this morning again. Must be the travelers fatigue hitting back!! We stopped for gas on the way to Canberra and took the wrong way back. For 30km, we didn't realise we were driving back towards Sydney!! What tools! It was a long drive. It is crazy how we jumped into Autumn! From one day to the next, leaves were falling down and covering the trees with a wonderful shades of red and orange.

Even if the capital ...

... inside. Then I went on to Parliament House. The current one is built into a hill, literally. You can walk up the hill and be on the second floor of the building. Of course, you can't go inside up there because you have to pass through security. And it doesn't look like much from the outside, but the building is actually very impressive. It's actually 5 buildings, with a total of 8,000 rooms, all ...

... naechsten Tag hab ich mir ein Buch gekauft (ich muss wirklich krank sein !! :-) )und mich in den nahegelegenen Glebe Park gesetzt, wo mich gleich ein Vogelpaerchen angegriffen hat, weil ich ihrem Nest zu nahe gekommen bin. - Paddy - Andi und ich sind also auf Tour gegangen. Wobei man in Canberra eigentlich nicht so viel entdecken kann. Klar ist es die Hauptstadt, aber sie wurde eigentlich auch nur gebaut, weil sich Sydney und Melbourne nicht entscheiden ...

... believe our eyes but we've both noticed this independently so we think that there was no doubt about what he was doing; it seems that the bad habits from childhood stick even when one gets elected to Parliament :-) While we never expected to spend too much time at the Parliament, we spent there all afternoon enjoying the verbal duels and, at times, laughing ourselves to tears. The only regret we had was that cameras were not allowed in the room, so all we could do ...

... der var blevet opmærksomme paa vore søgende blikke kunne nu oplyse, at klubben for faa maaneder siden var flyttet til nye lokaliteter længere nede i St. Kilda. Vi fortsatte vor vandretur og endte da ogsaa foran en gammel og temmelig tilrøget pub i den mere livlige del af St.Kilda. Den var nu blevet ophøjet til St. Kilda RSL. Desværre bestod den kun af et rum med bar og pokermakiner, hvortil personer under 18 aar ikke havde adgang. Saa for at faa stillet sulten ...

... Sydney Swans and the Melbourne Demons where met some very socialbe Aussie boys who were drinking heavily and only too happy to explian the rules of the game to us. Needless to say all we were interested in was cheering on Tadgh Kinnelly! We flew off after to take in the market, The National Mint, Parliament House and the National Library! Tourism exactly how we like it - informative and short!

... when our next bus leaving for Melbourne!! Back to hostel, & only activities they offer for Canberra is a bus (which you have to pay $25 for) to explore the 'exciting' museums & parliament buildings etc etc etc....I mean, please...do we look like parliamenty people?? No I don't think so! Choosing to decline the Explorer Bus, we instead read our books & had an early night. However...one funny thing that managed to ...

... hill where, as we were driving past the old parliament house we heard some very loud music. On the lawn inbetween the old and new parliaments is a big stage. With only a handful of people around we head down the mall and park up maz in the drive - half expecting to get moved on or towed away we get our very own preview of the Australia day concert being beamed to the nation live tomorrow night- on stage now- thirsty merc followed by ricki lee - both big names currently in oz - but of ...

... On the way we saw some guys wearing big somberos so we nicked them for a bit to take photos. By that time I was pretty ****** so we went home. It was a cool night. Xmas day - woke up not feeling too lively - the weather wasnt great so we didnt rush to get to the beach. We exchanged pressies, Charlie got me a really good book and I opened the ones I brought with me from England - thank you Dad, Nikki and Chloe and Lucinda ...