“Look into the eyes of over 400 people who’ve shaped the nation at the National Portrait Gallery, on the shores of Canberra’s Lake Burley Griffin.” On a recent visit to Canberra that is exactly what we did. There was a particular part of the gallery devoted to an exhibition of Women in Focus. This Gallery…
Tag: Canberra
The National Arboretum
While I was in Canberra I paid a visit to the National Arboretum. My daughter and I were going there for lunch, which I might say was delicious. There is a wonderful play area for children at the Arboretum. There is also a wonderful gift shop with many unusual items to give as gifts. I…
Do you have Shopperdocket where you live?
I have never really looked closely at the back of the dockets that you get when you pay for your shopping, that is until recently. I happened to look at the back of the docket and noticed that there was an ad for two nights stay at Moama/Echuca and it was at a very reasonable…
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.
We have been having colder than usual weather here in Metung and that got me thinking about a trip I made to Canberra the first year we moved to Metung. It was beautiful weather when I left but this is what greeted me on the road into Bombala. Normally on a trip from Metung to…
Trips and trees and time
Last week we decided that we would take a trip up to Canberra, just because we could and it had been quite some time since we had seen our younger daughter. We had a lovely weekend and returned home yesterday. I missed out on blogging yesterday and today we had a power cut from 9.00…
Canberra again. . . this time with Bison Australia.
This time when we were in Canberra we stayed in a hotel, we usually stay at our daughter’s but there was a big birthday party happening there! The hotel we stayed at was known as Olims and the Hotel Ainslie when we lived in Canberra, it is now the Mercure. It is one of Canberra’s…
Gippsland Granny 