Canberra Motels

Wednesday 30th June - Blue Mountains - Canberra Headed off this morning in the knowledge that we know now that 'Manchester' means linen - we spotted the sign in a supermarket and asked. About a 300k drive to Canberra with a cold windy day, barren brown ...

... open til 10 am, so we decided to walk to the other sights first. Actually, our very first stop downtown was at The Canberra Centre (mall) for cappuccino. I also made use of an internet terminal to send dad an e-card and to find the reservation number for ...

... … To our very great surprise we pulled up to a sunny, dry camp ground, with bathrooms that were better than most Canberra motels (!), a market, bar and café on site, internet access and the best cappuccino so far in Italia! Hooray! Called home, and ...

... ;         * Thursday morning. 5AM. An alarm is piercing the silence... Destination Canberra! Paris, London, Beijing, Madrid, Tokyo, Rome...just hearing the names of these capital cities stirs a little buzz, ...

... ; Getting close to the Capital city, I was amazed how quiet the road was but when we got there, we realised why.  Canberra is small, so small, the centre consists of one main road with roads coming off the sides top, middle and bottom, drive further ...

... we arrived into the city centre. We drove around the peculiar ring roads until we drove ourselves into the parliamentary buildings. Canberra has a very unusual layout; being such a modern city someone was clearly just given free rein to design things to ...

... in Far North Queensland - Getting to Hope Vale, and a bit of what goes on We didn't come directly to Hope Vale from Canberra: our two regular Virgin Blue flights delivered us to Cairns via Brisbane, and we had about 24 hours to kill in the Tokyo of ...

Our adventure in Brisbane does not really start there, but in Canberra, at the Parliament House.  While waiting in line at the security check before entering the Q&A session, one of the gentlemen waiting in line with us asked where we are from ...

... car rental and hotels/motels Nov 1 (Sat) - Nov 5 (Wed): Melbourne Nov 7 (Sat) - Nov 10 (Mo): Alpine National Park and Canberra Nov 10 (Mo) - 19 (Wed): Blue Mountain National Park and Sydney Nov 23 (Sun) - Dec 5 (Fri): Brisbane and Great Barrier Reef ...