Visiting our Capital

§imone

Kids back @ school, hubby finally gets a week off, so we load the bikes & take off for a little road trip to our nations capital Canberra.

1st stop is @ Holbrook, typical country town in NSW .. but wait whats this. Miles inland & what do they have ....




Took a few shots then headed on our way. Stopped @ Gundagai, for lunch. Will do the pic thing on return.

We get to place where staying. Check in, unload & just veg out for the rest of the day. Took our time getting here. 5 hour ride, in stinking summer heat, took its toll. Dinner time rolls around, step foot out our door & we have visitors, the locals ...





Living where we do, seeing a roo is nothing new, but having this right out your door every night & being so close is still a wonderfull thing to enjoy in this country.

Our turn to play tourist, & we sooooo did all ( well what we could do in a couple of days ) the typical tourist things ...

Managed to drag hubby into a certain building & grab some culture. While there went & saw the Journey To The Afterlife, Egyptian antiquities From The Louvre. Pitty on the NO pic allowed thing.



Next stop, a must do no matter what country your in, is to check out just what your taxes are put to use to. In our case we have an Old & New ...





Next on our list was the Australian War Memorial. We spent like 3-4 hours here & still didnt get to see it all. So many pics I could show, but here are a couple of my favs...




Next on hit list was The Mint, very interesting to see the process on how our money is made from start - finish. This place is going to be great to visit when they move into the building.



Next was Telstra Tower. Pics courtesy of hubby as moi didnt enjoy the road trip up there, let alone being up there :rofl






As promised stopped @ Gundagai on way home, How can one not stop & have pic taken with the Dog on the Tuckerbox ...





Another 5 hour stinkin hot ride home, but well worth it & enjoyed very minute of it.

1andyw

Thank you, Simone. Love the tour.

Nice work!

AndyW

com3

i like this shot right here:




and the camos.... nice touch.

§imone

Thanks guys.

com3 wrote:

and the camos.... nice touch.

yep well they do stand out, then there doing there job while out on the road. These camo Draggins are not your normal jeans, these things have kevlar lined

Tommyboy

Really nice photos. Had a chance to spend a few days in Canberra last year. Nice place and inspiring sites.

Love the two shots of the old and new Parliment House. Really well done.

§imone

Tommyboy wrote:

Really nice photos. Had a chance to spend a few days in Canberra last year. Nice place and inspiring sites.

Love the two shots of the old and new Parliment House. Really well done.

Thankyou Tom.

We had a great time. National Gallery you could only take pics outside, which I was expecting to be the case.

But all the other places we went, you could snap away to your little heart was content, & thats including the new Parliament House.

There are more pic in Gallery link below in sig.

ian408

Thanks for taking us along!

yoder

Thanks
Very nice images. Prob will never get there, but through your eyes, super!

yoder

gus

§imone wrote:

Kids back @ school, hubby finally gets a week off, so we load the bikes & take off for a little road trip to our nations capital Canberra.

Great set of shots simone. I used to check the batterys on this sub. We called it a 300 foot sewage pipe. I can still smell it just looking at it.

To quote kenny...it had a smell that will outlast religion !

§imone

gus wrote:

Great set of shots simone. I used to check the batterys on this sub. We called it a 300 foot sewage pipe. I can still smell it just looking at it.

To quote kenny...it had a smell that will outlast religion !

Oh wow fancy that. lol your going have to explain that quote now, what a cracker of a movie.

Thanks for comments Ian, Yoder & Gus.

Damn going to have to fix some pics there I see.