Country Comfort Canberra

Join us from the comfort & relative safety of your desk for our ups, downs & (knowing Verdi) inevitable visits to A&E, as we travel to Australia and Beyond taking in the A to Z of what the world has to offer...on a budget!! We're planning on having the ...

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 ...

... when the man who's in charge of this country - good ol' Johnny Howard - made the controversial decision not to live in Canberra - preferring the million-dollar views offered by his Kirribilli mansion in Sydney.  Sigh. Sydney. Must focus on reason for ...

... has a whole lot of history attached to it.  But we won’t go into all the long details.  Basically, Canberra is located in the Australian Capital Territory and is the capital of Australia.  When Australia’s separate colonies were ...

... for the relative cool climes of Sydney at 31c. It was a relief to pass in air conditioned comfort from one attraction to the next. Did you know Canberra has the largest number of free attractions in Australia? Next up was the Australian War Memorial, ...

... anything I could possibly want within a few paces, work hours so much longer, and for far less, than myself. Nor, on a country drive, could I turn away from the simply clad, barefoot coffee harvesters. I know nothing more about their way of life, their ...

... at the back, then move forward to Murrays table. They are archaeologists from a dig up on the Euphrates, Australians from Canberra. One woman in particular takes umbrage at Murray's questioning if Canberra is really part of Australia.    Murray ...

... ; as you walk down the main street at around 5pm you could almost fire a shot down the road & not hit a soul, a bit like Canberra. But then again this is why we go to these places & the local corner pub served up some good food, for a 'healthy ...

My 4 month adventure at Australia's Snowy Mountains began with a bus ride from Sydney's Central Station to  Canberra in Australian Capital Territory (ACT).  I stayed a night at the YHA and managed to have a wander around Canberra's lake on a ...

... for no discernible reason. MP decide to do another run for 800,000 of cedis at the ATM. Talk to a young Aussie couple from Canberra/Melbourne, who are supposed to be on the crowded bus, but decide to do something else, and are still there when we ...

... historic buildings in about an hour and a half and nearly walked past a few of them. Alessia has been a little spoilt living in Canberra for the last few months because when we arrived at the 'war memorial' she was so ...

... we took another train to Bonn. This was the capital of West Germany and seemed modern and planned in the way that Canberra was designed to prevent spontaneity. The hostel we checked into was very modern and loaded with German youth which indicated that ...

... Hugh's archaic advice as gospel. As such I will make a point of researching old edition travel guides for future voyages. As the Canberra of Morocco, there is no compelling urge to discover the gems that await in Rabat, so we motor on all the way up ...

... a solid night’s sleep, we made our way through the lowland’s famous swamps to reach Dodoma, the Canberra-esque capital of Tanzania. Dodoma’s diminutive population and isolated location bore more than a striking resemblance to its Aussie ...

... road from Melbourne to Sydney in 2 days, a route we hadn't taken before, as we had taken the bus before through Canberra to get to Sydney. It was really pretty along the coast, with lots of tiny towns and bays. In Sydney we headed back to ...

... returned to Perth to say goodbye.  I flew back to Melbourne overnight, and waited for Elana to arrive from Canberra for another 6 hrs.  Airports, what places of purgatory and reprieve! Reunited with Elana, we propped our eyelids open ...

... can enjoy talks and films about current exhibitions and the galleries remain open until 9pm. At the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra (02 6240 6411; nga.gov.au) it is worth ringing in advance to check if they have any late-night viewings as they ...

... . In the enclosed viewing area we were excited to see that, according to the legend on the wall, we were 16,492 kilometres from Canberra. It was very late by the time we returned to the hotel and even the constant rumbling of the trains in the subway ...

So, on Thursday I tore myself from the great family feeling in Canberra and flew off to yet another country and time zone. I had been expecting a night in Singapore airport to be one of comfort and luxurious splendours (having read various reviews ...

... were quickly bound by the mutual goal and excited emails began to fly.  Five of the group were in Canberra and began weekend hikes up the local mountains together, one of which I was able to join in on.  The ...