The journey to Canberra. It began today with me waking up at 4:30, feeling all revved and ready to go. Then I remembered how long it would take to get there and calmed down significantly. Anyway, we left at about 5 o'clock in the morn. The journey was relatively uneventful, unless you count the excruciatingly bad pun about us being 'yesmads' instead of nomads (clearly I didn't come up with it) and the toilet that was, to put it mildly, dirty. We also got ripped off by this 24 hour convenience store thingo for breakfast.
We started entering Canberra, but believe it or not, we almost got lost. We began our search for the golden arch, the yellow M, McDonald's. Anyway, we found it eventually at about 1 o'clock, although it took a while. It seems that Canberrasiders/Canberralians/Canberrazoids like putting the M sign down at ground level, hidden by huge buildings. Then they left two burgers, a coffee and a Happy Meal toy out of our meal. What do you expect?
We decided to take up John Howard's invitation to coffee at Parliament House at 3 o'clock, but he never fronted. In other words, we were stood up by Johnny. It's an alright place I guess, not all that exciting, but that's pretty much what one visits Canberra for. It's good if you like history. There's lots of museums here, but I think we'll just be visiting the Royal Australian Mint and leaving after that tomorrow. Until my next post, au revoir.
You have reaffirmed by belief that Canberra is a hole. Mint sounds moderately interesting on account of I would make myself a coin worth 3 dollars and see if anyone would buy it.
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