Blogs from Australian Capital Territory, Australia, Oceania - page 13

We got up early, had a quick breakfast and drove of to Canberra. The Kings Highway took us up steep mountainsides with some hairpin curves and the landscape changed as we ascended and became more serene. We came to Canberra around twelve o clock but could check in directly and then headed directly down town. We started at the Questacon, a hands on science museum, and then walked up to the parliament houses. Very different designs but both are nice. After that we went to see the Australian War Memorial but we arrived only half an hour before they closed so we only looked at the grave of the Unknown Soldier. The closing ceremony with the lone piper was very moving. As we were looking for a place to eat Nils noticed that his mobile phone ... read more

I have had this little voice in my head very recently “Have you written a blog yet?” Actually I realised it was not a voice in my head, it was Andy! Ok, so I have been a little slack in a long while, but it seems that I don’t have too much of an excuse at the moment as I find myself with some spare time on my hands. I took the momentous decision to give up my job, it came to a point that the work life balance was no longer in existence, the balance was too heavy on the work side and it was affecting my health. A brave move but it was the best thing and the right thing to do. So, I have been spending my new found time catching up on ... read more

Big Love. Hi Bloggers, we must apologise for the lack of activity on Kangaroojacks blog, but time has just run away with us, so being mindfully aware of this I thought I would do a roundup of what has been happening since our last blog at Easter. This in not going to be produced in date order, I will just type this from the hip as it comes in to my mind. This weekend we have been to our favourite farm “Woodstock” near Nangus to see Helen and Robert, we arrived at about 5.10 and parked the truck adjacent to a refrigerated trailer as I remember that they were killing some animals and they were most probably hanging in the reefer unit. We walked in to the homestead and found nobody home, so we clicked the ... read more

Friday, 18th May 2012 Less than 2 days before we leave.... Got all the tickets and vouchers yesterday for hotels and travel – quite an impressive pile of paper!... read more

Yo! As I have directed some lucky people here, I thought there better be something for them to find on this "blog" while I'm travelling to my first destination. As I am lacking other content, I will instead go through my itinerary as it currently stands: China: Beijing and more (different) Great Wall, before getting on the train to... Mongolia: Ger camp-ing and Ulaan Baatar, then train to... Russia: Siberia (Ulan Ude, Lake Baikal), train, Kungur, train, Moscow, train, St Petersburg. (For those of you playing along at home, all that train adds up to the trans-Siberian railway). Then, Hungary, Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia. By then it will be European summer. I imagine summer on the Dalmatian coast will be horrible. To help cope with that pain, and fill in the time until a ... read more