Backpacking in Australia: Top 5 Sights in Canberra
As the six year mark on my last few days in Australia hit home this week, it is time to reflect on one of my favourite cities in Australia – the capital city itself. Canberra.…
Monday’s Money Saving Tips: FREE Museums
Never underestimate the amount of FREE sightseeing you can do. Did you know that there are FREE museums all over the place, you just need to do your research beforehand. I used to go to…
Backpacking in Australia: Canberra in a Nutshell
Canberra – Proud Capital City of Australia. So what was it like? In a word, inspiring. In lots of words – what you’re about to read. It would have been fairly dumb to leave the…
Backpacking in Australia: Watching Karisma Katz Live At Eucalypt Lawn, Canberra
Nobody turns down a free concert do they? Well, I don’t. Though on this occasion, I almost did. My mate Neil has a knack of spotting random things happening nearby. He reads newspapers and magazines…
Backpacking in Australia: Visiting Canberra’s Carillon
What is a Carillon? I’m not really sure and I’m not going to look it up in a dictionary, and the first time I’d heard that word was January 2010, while in Canberra, Australia’s under-rated…
Backpacking in Canberra: Australian National Museum, Art Gallery and Bonsai Garden
There are so many FREE things to do in Canberra I was finding it hard to believe. On the north side of the city, where the Parliament lies, beyond lake Burley Griffin, there are all…
A Random Barbecue In Aranda *
The barbecue in Aranda proved to be another random and special night. Aranda is a suburb or area in Canberra. Canberra is a big city, taking up a large area, but everything seems so far…
Backpacking in Australia: Visiting the Australian War Memorial in Canberra
You hear talk about it when you’re in Australia. People that hear you’ve been to Canberra will say “oh, did you go to the war memorial?”, so you’ve kind of got to go there, just…
Backpacking in Australia: Australian Parliament House, Canberra
A trip to Australia’s Parliament House was in order when I was backpacking in Canberra in January 2010. I have never been inside my own Parliament! Neither Belfast’s Stormont nor London’s House of Commons or…
Swimming at Casuarina Sands, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
While staying in the ACT (Australian Capital Territory) we ventured outside of the actual “Canberra” area only a few times. The ACT is more than just Canberra believe it or not, even if the rest…