Blogs from Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, Oceania - page 35

Whatever next? It's all a bit much for a young T-Shirt to take in. This star-studded, high-flying, jet-setting existence is beginning to make me feel a bit giddy!! For goodness sake, I thought it was exciting when I was first unpacked in Fox Studios to meet Hugh Jackman, but now I'm in Australia's Capital Territory and meeting none other than former member of the hit rock group "Midnight Oil" turned Member of Parliament, Peter Garrett. And look how nicely he signed me :o))) Next I'm off out of Australia for the very first time... to... HONG KONG!!! Keep checking in because more exciting news is coming soon!!!... read more

Yes in the land of sun and surf you can also go skiing. James and Tammy very kindly invited Luke, Jen and I to come down to Canberra for the weekend and to go skiing for the day at Perisher.... read more

It's been a while, hasn't it? Sorry for being so rubbish with this. We made to Canberra (the capital) this morning after entering our seventh state (one more to go) earlier in the day. First impressions of Canberra are pretty good although it's swarming with police. We've done so much since the last entry, it's hard to know where to begin. Some may already know that we've bought a van! We picked her up in Adelaide and despite a flat battery and the odd bit of overheating she's going well. She's an old girl (first registered in 1980) and in the hope that she lives as long as her namesake we have called her Helen (after Helen Daniels off of Neighbours). Speaking of Neighbours, we visited the famous Ramsay St, Lassiters complex (inc Bishop & Carpenter's ... read more

I can finally say I've been to all of Australia's states/territories! I spent this weekend in Canberra - which is in it's own state called the Australian Capital Territory. It's been the official capital of Australia since 1908 - although parliament has only sat there since 1927 (there were some delays in moving up from Melbourne thanks to the First World War) - are you getting the impression that I learned a lot during my 28 hours there? I took the 3.5 hour bus ride down from Sydney on Saturday morning - main highway the whole way there, so not a whole lot to see. I had wanted to get tickets for the Hop-on Hop-off tourist bus for the afternoon, but upon checking in at my YHA, I learned that they've cancelled the afternoon portion. I ... read more

AS Beza and I start the countdown to our trip around the world, we have started to prepare our "Travel blog" so we can keep our friends and loved ones here at home enthralled by our antics, experiences and the odd enivitable disasters. We hope that these entries are entertaining, informative and do not make you too envious. In the end this will provide a great record for Beza that she can keep in the years to come. We depart Canberra for Sydney on 11 September 2008 (yes I know, we did not make the connection at the time) and from Sydney to London via Singapore later that afternoon. AS we place entries and photos into this blog you will receive an email notification that we have updated the blob, so stay tuned. This is actually ... read more