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Rainbow in Canberra
Rainbow in Canberra
Is it not beautiful?! It was one of my first days down under, grey rainy day but I instantly felt warm and happy when this rainbow appeared, especially for me!
Just a short one because nothing happened and do only have few new pictures. I moved for the second time and am finally settled, yeahaa!! I live in a 1 bedroom flat in Hackett, which is right at the border of a nature reserve so that I have some wonderful hills as I look outside my windows. The neighbourhood is really quiet and peaceful with the exception of the noisy birds and the possums on the roof that sometimes wake me up in the morning It is 30 min by bike to ANU but I love it! The air is nicely [View Full Entry]

fladder - Schmitz | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: November 13th 2009 | 24 Views | [diary=452858]

Veggies of all kind
Sunset behind the mountains
Eucalypt everywhere

On our way to Canberra
On our way to Canberra
just like Canada
So we picked Canberra as our first road trip destination - not the most exciting place, but how can we not visit Australia's capital! Canberra is about 2.5 hours drive South of Sydney. It is a city and a state of its own. My first comment about this place: "Is this it?". Yes, this is it - small city, and potentially the smallest National capital we've seen. Being the national capital, one can imagine it's got the most Government funding on city development. This is a "planned city", meaning all the developments are planned from its inception. This is unusual in [View Full Entry]

SamiY - Samantha Yuen | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 22nd 2009 | 32 Views | [diary=447171]

The Parliament House
Inside the Parliament House
More oysters from Fyshwick Market

Hi Everyone, Since the last blog entry we have had a day trip to Burrum Heads and been back to Geoff and Maries for a few days and had a days fishing at Barumba Dam (about an hour from Gympie) and although we only had one day there we thought it was a lovely spot and will definitely return. Unfortunately I forgot my camera that day so no pics from there. We caught up with Neville and Helen (our Weipa tour leaders) and had a lovely night at their place for dinner. Then it was back to River Heads to get [View Full Entry]

Formo - John and Maree Forman | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 8th 2009 | 16 Views | [diary=434979]

Pelican
Shipwreck in Sandy Straits
Crocodiles???

For anyone still hanging in there we have a few more pics. After leaving Boondooma Lake with Geoff and Marie we headed to Inskip Point to have some time with Bruce and Jo. It is such a lovely place to camp You can have campfires, dogs and as much space as you need and all of this for just $10 a night and only a minutes walk from the beach. The weather was reasonable, although we did have a couple of days that were a bit windy and cool (I won't say cold, because most of you would probably laugh at [View Full Entry]

Formo - John and Maree Forman | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: August 8th 2009 | 35 Views | [diary=426312]

Barges at Inskip
Beach
Dinner

I couldn't come all the way to Australia and not see the Capital. Well to be honest i wish i hadn't! There is not much to do or see in Canberra. Canberra was a purposely built capital city. It's rather strange, very clinical and a bit like a ghost town. Where were all the people?! Not really much to say about it really. We stayed at a very basic motel but all we really need is a bed i suppose. We arrived at 9pm Friday night and just watched a bit of tv before going to bed. It had been a [View Full Entry]

Crocodile Dundee - Stefanie Douglas | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: August 5th 2009 | 38 Views | [diary=425480]

old parliament house
new parliament house
Kev Rudd lookalike

Seriously where? We got off our looooong bus journey through the country-side to be met with, not much. Canberra was a city designed on a big drawing board by some pompous architect as THE Australian capital. Result - a city of huge wide roads, lots of circular roads, ugly commercial buildings and the odd nice parliamentary building. Our motel was a little bit of a dive, imagine a 60's american motel crossed with that lovely Thavorn hotel in Phuket (check back throught the blogs for that review) . But it was fine, complete with TV and microwave, bonus. Needless to say [View Full Entry]

nicnac - Nicola Edward | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: August 3rd 2009 | 59 Views | [diary=424510]

Canberra museum, funky place
Go Broncos!!!
Parliament House

It all begins with preparation... I thought about waiting till I had left for Spain to start this blog but to ensure it's a full record of my trip I definitely need to start now. I've been given a 7 week training schedule from a trainer at the gym and it's killing me! Starts off with swimming on Mondays. Tuesday is an RPM class. Wednesday is a challenging 1 hour with a personal trainer who makes me feel like I'm part of The Biggest Loser. Thursday is a hike outside with hills (working up to 2 hours). Friday is a day [View Full Entry]

Lulu Marie - Luci Knight | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 31st 2009 | 30 Views | [diary=424023]


Could my friend's artistic impression come true? Let's hope not... DAY 26 Low on water, last meal was 4 days ago was rice full of weevils… Our tour guide, Redreego Hondurus died mysteriously yesterday. This is the 6 person to die on our hike… someone is a killer and everyone is suspicious… I think its Muzeemo, when Cindy went missing from camp 2 nights ago he was also missing, we went looking for hours to find her only for Muzeemo to mysteriously come from the bushes with scratches to his face… I haven’t slept for 3 days… too sca [View Full Entry]

Lulu Marie - Luci Knight | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 31st 2009 | 36 Views | [diary=424033]


Photos only - Samson [View Full Entry]

howenina - Nina Gan | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 29th 2009 | 18 Views | [diary=423280]


Samson waiting for food
Samson waiting for food
You want some cheese - wait until I take your photo!
Photos of Samson - blog testing [View Full Entry]

howenina - Nina Gan | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 29th 2009 | 20 Views | [diary=423431]

Samson being lazy
Samson on patio


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