The Statesman Hotel Canberra

Scene: Balcony at our place, dusk, perfect 25 degree weather. Glass of chilled vino in hand. Unwinding on a Monday evening.

While enjoying the aforesaid vino, Kyle and I got to chatting about the many exciting and undiscovered places we might wet our whistles on our travels. Like....Singapore slings in Singapore, forbidden and overpriced desert beers in Dubai and Egypt, pints of room-temperature lagers and ales in London, Guinness in Dublin, champagne under ...

... world's most famous cities just watching the locals on get about their daily lives.
Of course seeing the world has me chomping at the bit, but seeing the people of the world, now that's the experience for me.

So anyway, where are we going?

First up is Singapore, then Dubai, Egypt, Europe, Iceland, and North America. No idea how long we'll spend in each place, but that's part of the experience right?

So that's my first blog.
Ciao,
Kyle

... bag of frozen veggies goes for around $2). The labels are somewhat different however as most items don’t show the calorie content… even though I picked mostly "light" products per the labels, I realized once I got home and converted the labels that some of these weren,t so light after all!! Ah well, I’ll know for next time!

After the supermarket I went back to the hotel for about an hour to get my stuff unpacked, before heading out to Sonia’s ...

... be put down. Belinda was really very upset and missed having an animal around her, particularly one that is very partial to lots of cuddles and Neisha fits the bill purrfectly for her. Wednesday night off to the Pizza place down the road with Belinda and Gary for dinner - another fun night, great pizzas, good company and some very nice wine - then home on Thursday. Booked the van into the Kiama Caravan Park just up the ...

... in Australia sadly. After all that and because it was getting late, we decided to bite the bullet when we saw a taxi in the next street and jumped in. The next morning we got up and walked the half an hour walk to Kevin Rudd's house better known as the Australian House of Parliament. The building itself is a modern affair with its front façade designed with two diagonal steel buttresses meeting at the top of building. The building is surrounded by ...

... which I think was open til 5am and was full of alco-poped teenagers dancing, but am not that sure. Moving swiftly on the next day's task was the 5km walk to the war memorial (and 5km back) via the other side of Lake Burley Griffin which also has globe sculpture in memory of Capt. Cook too. Further up from that after a 'danger shallow water sign' ???? its easy to enter Commonwealth park and the see the annual flower show 'Floriade' (mid sept-oct) which is all very nice but ...

... og spiste pizza og snakkede en masse. Da vi var færdige kom hendes mor og hentede os og vi tog hjem til hendes for at se en film. Da den var færdig samlede jeg mine ting sammen og blev kørt hjem ingen. Saa havde vi ogsaa været sammen i 12 timer lige ud." Og saadan blev klokken næsten 23 da Chiaras mor og Chiara kørte Mia tilbage til hotellet Fredag den 4.juli Den sidste dag i Melbourne. Efter morgenmaden startede Mia dagen med at gå op i hotellets fitnesscenter og ...

... detour to the coast to see 'Malua Bay' and a quick walk on the beach at 'Tomakin', where there were fabulous folded rocks on the cliff sides. Passing through the seaside town there were more of the coloured parrots and a big flock of crested cockatoos. The bell birds we had heard in most of the forests on the way. After lunch at 'Batemans Bay', we turned north west on Hwy 52 to 'Canberra', Australia's capital city. We climbed steadily ...

... March We were glad to get up & check out at 10am - only 8 hrs to pass in Crapberra! Again we went for a walk around the city hoping that maybe yesterday was just a 'tired day' and maybe, oh maybe, we would stumble upon something that might slightly excite or tantilise us........but nope!! Hence, we reverted to what we always do when we are bored...grabbed a book & settled ourselves in Starbucks with a large coffee! Tried ...

... her way to show us round the house of representatives and the senate - trying to explain the oz politics system as we went!). still stunned by what is happening for us today we are strolling through the corridors of power when we come across some people we met back in perth at the start of our trip - chris and Katie from somerset- dan emma and ryan will remember these guys with the land rover shipped out from the uk! We spend a very entertaining hour catching up with this couple's trip ...