Parliament House

Welcome! This is my travelogue for my internship in London, working in the House of Commons. Enjoy these photos and writings of my travels, please sign the guestbook, and don't forget to subscribe if you'd like to be notified when this page is ...

... pieces. But jigsaw pieces come in all shapes and sizes, and don't necessarily all fit together. The same goes for the Australian parliament house, the pieces are nice, but none of it really fits. The free tour was very informative - we learned about the ...

... are then painted gold. We went to park at Lake Burley Griffin and had some races on the grass. We then went back to Parliament House to watch question time.  I saw Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott.  All the politicians kept arguing and the speaker ...

   Upon leaving the Royal Palace, we stopped briefly to take a picture of the present Parliament House of Cambodia. I was informed by the guide that this House was donated by the Chinese Government i.e. it's construction was funded by them. ...

Dropped Mike at bus depot, Gerard and I did tour of Parliament House, then War Memorial, picked up Mike on out way ...

... important building called Portcullis House, which is a building that opened in 2001 to provide offices for 210 Members of Parliament and their staff, augmenting limited space in the Palace of Westminster and surroundings. This is where we were going to ...

In Canberra I had two radio interviews and several meetings. One was at Parliament sponsored by MPs. I gave my talk and found that the information was eagerly awaited. My hosts put me up at a very fine hotel. They rushed me there from the airport just ...

... until you've met my cousin and witnessed her 'crowd surfing' skills!!! HIGLIGHTS OF THE DAY: **Big Ben **Houses of Parliament **House of Commons **Westminster Abbey **Hyde Park **Declining the invite of tea and scones with the queen, for hot ...

So..... i decide to visit Government House to see the original flag given to Juyjuy by the main Independence man General Belgrano in 1802. I have a personal guide meet meet and tell me all about the history of the town and the flag (see the photos for the ...

... was spent visiting three Embassies—Indonesia, New Zealand, and then the Aboriginal Tent Embassy.  We also briefly stopped at Parliament House to take pictures and see the surrounding area.  All of the Embassies are housed in buildings and ...

Today we wnet on a tour of the WA Parliament House. The upper house was having air conditioning installed, so we were only able to see the lower house. No pictures are allowed inside, but you can go to www.parliament.wa.gov.au to take a look. Grabbed ...

... if you know what we mean!! Still we learnt a bit more about NZ there. We then walked along the quay and up to the Parliament house. Walked straight in to a tour with 2 other people. Our guide told us that we wanted to watch parliament in session just ...

... very different feel to everywhere else in Australia. The city was planned from scratch so is very organised. We started off at Parliament House, a huge building which dominates the area. We had a tour, seeing the two houses (similar to the Houses of ...

... least). So off to see the rest of the sites of Delhi, from the Mughal Emperors tomb to a huge Hindu temple, Parliament house, the Presidents house which would have to be the largest residence on earth, and even got to tour Gandhi’s old house and ...

... term loan!!!  We walked back to our hotel, taking in some lovely public buildings along Macquarie Street, Mint Building, Parliament House, the State Library and eventually crossing into an area called the Domain.  This is a public recreation ...

... how useful a statistic that is but there you are. The city still has many stone buildings built in the Victorian style- Parliament House and the Cathedral are two examples-but it has also many new buildings with a modern architectural style. There is a ...