Canberra by Nick

Hello again, despite the long break between posts, I, Nick, am back.
In this entry I will be posting about Canberra, a place which I visited on the Labour Day long weekend, and many other times in the past.

Canberra is the capital of Australia, located inside the state of NSW. Because Canberra is the capital, it is of course filled with a variety of attractions. Two of the main attractions are the Old and New Parliament House.

Parliament House

Now, if you're a politics fan or interested in Australian political history, these are both great places to visit. You can book a ticket to watch question time in the house of representatives and see real politics in action (yay).
But to anyone who's not very interested politics, you may find these places somewhat uninteresting, as most of the time, nothing much of relative interest happens.


While I was in Canberra, I also visited the Floriade festival, an event held in spring from the 12th of September to the 11th of October.

Floriade is a flower show, with activities targeted towards young children, such as small festival rides and paintable garden gnomes for $15 each. Once again, unless you have a great interest in florestry or have young children, this event is rather uninteresting, as personally I found the floral displays to be dull, with many of the flowers dying (that may be attributed to the extreme heat on the long weeked, however). Nothing was particularly noteworthy.
Note, my cynicism of the event and Canberra as a whole is porbably biased as the very hot weather made the mostly outdoors trip un-enjoyable.

Floriade, on a nice day

Note that there are plenty of other worthwhile things to do in Canberra, and Canberra itself isn't that bad of a place.

Photo Sources:
Parliament House: http://excursionsforschools.com.au/index.php?link=canberragallery
Floriade: http://www.anglicare.asn.au/site/testing.php?task=detail&id=0056