Sunday, July 15, 2007

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Forever ... or not? On the way to Canberra

One Sunday bestial; wake up early (must have been around 11.00am), go out to discover the capital of Australia. We are greeted by a biting cold (5 degrees have been at most), fog, and deserts of Soviet-style apartment blocks, not to mention Mussolini.
The first stage, after waiting thirty minutes for the bus (free 'cause the ticket machine was broken), the Australian Parliament, where we were given a guided tour of all the rooms, the House of Representatives and the Senate (even free ones).
Having had to put up an endless tirade about the beauty of a tapestry of the main hall (Actually 'horrendous), also used as weddings, conferences etc etc, we show a bit' of numbers on the building ( http://www.aph.gov.au/ ): 1500

clocks set to the same time, precisely to the second,
200 km of corridors, courtyards
17,
2 bedrooms, 1 green and 1 pink (like a beautiful flower, according to the guide),
Carrara marble for the exterior columns and floors in the foyer ,
abbbborigeno in the huge mosaic consists of millions of square tiles, tapestry
the second most 'world's largest representative of the Australian bush, including a parrot and a white comet (!?!?!).

recommend everyone visit this immmmmensa elephant, or rather especially on a hill leveled to accommodate the new parliament building (because you 'catered' too old a more 'bottom provisional until 1988).
Given the very sharp cold, we decided to go to the afternoon in a ..... guess what?
Mall!! 'Cause the center of Canberra' s just a huge shopping center packed with shops, cinemas, restaurants, etc etc.
You should also know that on Sunday everything closes here strictly by 16.00, so after we made the usual charge to eat in the room as a regular dinner, we returned to our beautiful hotel for a nice late afternoon-evenings.
Canberra and 'also features an interesting mess, with direct access from our hotel, but given our state of economic / financial / clothing we have not dared even to set foot.
Tomorrow morning we find a taxi outside the hotel to take us to the immense (image having the train station) airport to leave for Melbourne.
PS: do not know if we have the connection for free, you will know the length of the next post.

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