Canberra Tourists Unite

*please notice the duct tape above the wheel well at the front tyre

A couple of postings back you may have read that John went to Canberra and took a shortcourse for school. Because the airfare was inexpensive, I decided to tag along and sightsee.

I had a good time, I'm not sure why Canberra has gotten such a bad rap-- it's clean, the people were friendly and the restaurants were pretty good.

While I was there I did quite of bit of walking around and went on a day-long tour of the capitol city highlights...





The War Memorial was quite moving and I'm glad I got the opportunity to spend some time there. ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) Day was only about a week away, so many preparations were being made. ANZAC Day is similar to Memorial Day in the States.



I went to both the new Parliament and the old Parliament. For me, old Parliament was the obvious winner. The photo above was taken from the War Memorial, but if you look to the background you can see both old Parliament (big white building) and new Parliament (directly behind the big white building).



Overall, it was an good visit and I'm glad that I got to tag along. I can't think of a time when John and I would say to ourselves, "Hey, let's go to Canberra this weekend, they have the world's largest tulip exhibition...after the Netherlands".