Hotel Heritage Canberra

... exhibit at the National Gallery of Australia of paintings from the Musee D'Orsay in Paris.  Found an excellent package at the Heritage hotel ten minutes outside of the city  (203 Goyder St, Narrabundah) - a ticket to the show (cost $25), a ...

... to be seen! I did go and pat a stuffed one, but I don't think it was as good as the real thing. We arrived into Canberra and headed down to the lake and parliament area. We had a little stroll, tried to name all the flags and then spotted, shining in ...

... to be fertile...and of course miners seeking  gold, lead and silver that were found in the valley.  Whereas Canberra had a very different begiining.  After Australians voted to  become a Federation it was decided that the Federal ...

... I turned out every bag, put a smile on my face and went out to meet my hosts, a brilliant professor of chemistry at Canberra's prestigious university and his wife, a well known historian. We dined with one of the foremost economists in the world who ...

... up for my flight home. Terminal 3 at Changi Airport is huge and Singapore airlines booked my bag right through to Canberra. I wandered around duty free and bought a few things and had something to eat at Burger King and then ...

... for itself many times over.) Derided by Bill Bryson as boring and similarly by some of the australians met, Canberra was formally established in 1927 as the home of Australia's parliament. In my opinion.....because I like things like ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... war, where it is rumored Eleanor Roosevelt and Bob Hope landed. For dinner tonight we decided to go eat at the Heritage Park Hotel next door. I had peppered snapper filet with mashed potatoes and carrots. It was delicious. Right now I am watching BBC and ...

... . We stop and have a look around Adelaide cemetary right on the edge of Villers-Bretonneux, from where the Unknown soldier laying in Canberra was exhumed.  Suddenly the skies open up, and it absolutely pours with rain as we head off for the city ...

... street to the hostel (another 50 min walk!) and made some dinner before packing the bags again ready for the off - to Canberra the following evening. Day 5 Another early start in order to be packed and ready to check out by 10am. After being ...

... long enough to form a real opinion, I at least thought the city was fascinating from a design and architecture standpoint. Canberra is a purpose-built city... a hundred-odd years ago Melbourne and Sydney were fighting over which one of them should be the ...

Since the last entry we have been to; Camden, Wollongong, Lake Conjola (NSW), Canberra (ACT), Mildura, Adelaide, Port Augusta, Coober Pedy (SA), Erldunda, Kings Canyon, Uluru and Alice Springs (NT). We moved inland from Sydney to Camden to avoid the busy ...

... a very good bore. The theory is that the water will soak back down to the water table. We also visited the Australian Workers Heritage Exhibition - opened by Bob Hawke while the Stockman's Hall of Fame in the next town, Longreach, was only opened by HRH ...

... Hobart (pop. 200k) is really easy to navigate as it has a grid system of one way streets, we stayed in a lovely heritage building guesthouse http://www.macmanor.com.au/ on Macquarie St., the only minute criticism I'd have is at breakfast they serve eggs ...

... once crowned, and from where they ruled (Durbar means “palace”).  The whole square was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1979. We were here, in 2001, when jeeps started arriving with officials in fancy white uniforms.  We ...

... place for another swim. We had a quick stop at Nowra at lunch time and then again at Berry, a lovely country town with a heritage main street. Being a Wednesday, the traffic back into Sydney was fine so we had a pleasant trip home, a bit sorry again that ...

... was half the reason we booked there - for the craic as we'd say in Ireland - and the building itself was a gorgeous old heritage one, especially nice on the outside, complete with balcony the width of a two lane road. It was originally built by a James ...