Canberra

Libby and I went off to Canberra, Australia’s youngest city, it is a recent development, especially built to be the Capital. We found a room at a Best Western, single beds of course : P And went off to explore everything the city had to offer. We went to the War memorial, and that itself was a pretty amazing place inside, displays were amazing, we took longer in there than I imagined or had planned for.

Went to Blundells Cottage where I found Libby's missing witches cauldron, unfortunately we arrived too late to get inside and when they saw us in the garden, they promptly closed the curtains..hahaha

We went to the Carillion which is across Lake Burley Griffin, and consists of 53 tuned bronze bells, this was a very peaceful place,

Then to Mt Ainslie and saw the views over the city. Then we went back and went out for a meal, sheesh the plate was huge and I was stuffed, we’d bought stuff for a girlie night in, but we ended up fast asleep with full bellys.
Next morning we woke, and was promptly greeted by the repair men as our toilet kept running water, they came to fix it, but didnt, so Libby once she was dressed called the men back….great!! I was still wrapped in a towel and dripping wet from a shower, so whilst they fixed it, muggins here had to wriggle and dress under the sheets!!



Then we went off and visited the Old Parliament House and the New Parliament House, lots of photo opportunities, even if Libby wouldn’t have her photo taken anywhere near and of OUR royalty …I still don’t understand politics..oh well

Then we did the tour of Embassies, of course we had to find the British one first!! And yes I did my rendition of God save the Queen and Rule Britannia
And of course the USA being true to form had to have the biggest and most secured…
After that we made our way back, about 3- 3and half hours back to Sydney.