Canberra
Trip Start
Sep 29, 2006
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Trip End
Sep 28, 2007
Canberra,
Australia
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Now everyone treats this place as if its Skegness - "Don't go its crap", "maybe a day or two", or point blank (and this was from Canberrans!) "Its shithouse mate". I love it. Take Milton Keynes and make it hot. Its clean, organsied, theres shade, fountains, museums all sorts! Nothing to do with all the female blonde governement workers wandering round in trouser suits who cann't really handle their beer... Hmmm trouser suits... If only they had a welsh accent theyd be my perfect woman!
War memorial was cool but best of the bunch had to be the new $1.1 billion parliment house
Captain Cooks memorial water jet thingy
. On entrance to the rather grand foyer the first thing i notice is the vast expanse of beautifully polished wooden flooring.... Bear with me ive not gone all woody honest.... After all of 3 seconds debate (with my own common sense) my new (and franky Beautiful) Etnies trainers are off and im sock surfing the length of the Great Hall. I musta done about 11m it was fantastic. I have never ever ever sock surfed such a distance! The tour guide and the rather boring germans on my tour were genuinely horrified, as were various government officials looking rather bemused. I think they thought i was high... which wouldnt be too hard as firstly weed is legalised (to buy smoke grow or whatever) in the capital. Also the top of the parliment building is covered in grass. It wouldnt be that hard to sly a few happy plants in there... no-one would notice... Given the state of their parliment i imagine someone already has... In any sense in true political style i agreed to stop sock surfing so long as the Germans took a picture of me. The tour guide simply felt the need to supply me with endless pamphlets on the sorts of woods used in the construction.... like i care.. i done 11m! Avvit! Canberra is cool though. They have made a fantastic effort to make a city and its hard to belive that theres only 310,000 people here. Friday night composed of a country and westen style band who actually wore cowboy hats, said yeehaa and had buffalo horns on the drum kit
Grass on the roof of parliment house!
. I thought it was a piss take... its actually how they really are. Better than that theres all these government guys in suits dancing away like theres no tomorow, and 17-24 year olds all loving it! Too many shandys I imagine. Oh and drinks. You cannt buy pints... its Schooners or sod all... Paul: "Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps"
Barman:"No Pints only schooners"
Paul: "what the hell do i want with a medium sized fishing boat?"
anyway its cool but time to hit melbourne... supposedly my spiritual home...
PS On a footnote on my last day I returned to parliment to try sock surfing with different socks; The quantas flight socks... now the key is to get them inside out... i think i beat 11m... fan-bloody-tastic.
