Canberra 3rd day of sightseeing. First thing in the morning we were on the phone to the Sargent at Arms' Office at Parliament House to see if we could get seats in the Public Gallery on Budget night. We were in luck, two seats in the enclosed area in the middle up above the Press Gallery and behind the Speaker's chair. This unfortunately is not the open area of the Public Gallery but a glassed in sound proofed area where school groups etc. can go when Parlia...

Tuesday 1st May 2012: New Parliament House, and various Embassies I am the proud Pinch and Punch Queen of the month of May even though Dave tried to cheat by earlier turning my mobile phone clock back to WA time when he thought I wasn't looking. But right near midnight I spied him sneakily peeking at his glow watch under the blankets so I beat him at his game and gave him some pinch and punch bruises to teach him a lesson! Don't mess with a determined woman in...

Cooma to Canberra: Sunday 29 April 2012 After a cosy night in our "shearers hut" baa baa! Dave and I pulled the bike trailer up a rocky slope to hitch onto the big grey Honda…and Dave then tried to ride off with the trailer stand still down….grrate! oops…a good start to a Sunday, and we were on our way. First just out of Cooma town we spent some time at the Snowy Mountain Hydroelectricity Scheme Discovery Centre….a very interesting place, free entry an...

The Alpine Way . . . . . . After a great stay at Beechworth it was time to head for Canberra with an overnight cabin stay in Cooma. The route for the day was planned and in the GPS and everything looked straight forward and easy, should be there early and time to relax. All was going well, through some beautiful little towns to Corryong then to head up to the Snowy Mts Highway and over the Great Dividing Range to Cooma. Well that was until we did a left...

I did say when we set out on this trip - "I want to go to places that I didn't know I wanted to go to." It is not enough to just go to places you know of and have heard about, with all the thousands of towns in Australia there must be many interesting places that we have never heard of. The chat around camp kitchens with total strangers is great; you pick up little hints of places to visit. After one such chat Trish took to the map book again for a rethink of o...