Dear capitol lovers,
It was time to get into the Parliamentary Zone of Canberra!
But first I had to close my Australian bank account which only took about 2
min. The bank clerk asked me how long I have traveled and admired that people
like me are not afraid of quitting their jobs to travel for so long. Quite
true, it isn’t easy to do it but definitely worth it.
After that I was on my way across the Commonwealth
Avenue over Lake Burley Griffin. It was such a nice day and due to the low
humidity (in contrast to Malaysia) I didn’t mind the long walk in the sun (but
I put on sunscreen anyway).
This is the National Library as seen from the bridge.
Dear capitol lovers,
Believe it or not: I finally made it into the very
capitol of Australia!
In case you didn’t know: neither Sydney nor
Melbourne are the capitol. As a tiebreaker a completely new city has been
created: CANBERRA! The problem with it is (in my opinion) that it is a little
bit hard to access. I mean, all the cities in Australia are a bit far from each
other and all that. But although Canberra is only about 300 km away from Sydney
there are not too many flights going there and no direct train connection
available. So you have to get one of the coaches like Greyhound or Murray’s to
get there. And that’s what I did.
