Still Road Tripping

In my last post I left you as we visited the Botanic Gardens in Canberra. The next day we drove into the centre of Canberra where we visited Old Parliament House.

The museum was extensive and interesting.  Afterwards we walked to the National Gallery of Australia to see the Arthur Boyd tapestries which I have to say were not my cup of tea.

 We wandered through the rest of the museum and various things caught my eye.

Outside there was a sculpture park.

There was also a sculpture you could walk inside.

 

Leaving Canberra we drove past the new Parliament building

We drove to Braidwood where we stopped for lunch.  I found a Patchwork shop and saw this award winning quilt on the wall.

We then drove on to Lake Conjola where we had booked a lakeside holiday home and met up with the family.

A long weekend here and then back to Wollongong.  I'll do a short post about our stay there before the residency.

Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice 

Road Trip

Our journey to Australia this time was somewhat delayed.  We usually fly with Singapore Airlines from Heathrow but because we were travelling back separately we booked with Emirates from Birmingham.  Our flight from Birmingham to Dubai was pushed back which meant we would miss our connection to Melbourne.  Fortunately that was pushed back also.  However when we got on the plane in Dubai it was held up for over an hour waiting for clearance to take off from Oman airspace.  We eventually arrived in Melbourne at 3.15am on Sunday morning rather than 9.50pm on Saturday night.  We got to bed at 04.45.

Still, we had arrived safely and what's a few hours of missed sleep.   We picked up our hire car and started our 5 day road trip.

We drove through the Yarra Rages National Park to Mansfield where we stayed the night.

The next day another mountain drive took us to Bright.

We drove past Mount Beauty and on to Albury which is on the border of Victoria and New South Wales.

Next morning we walked around the Botanic Gardens and then part of the sculpture trail along the river.

Then we drove along the Great River Drive in the rain.

And then on to Paddy River Falls before arriving in Tumbarumba for the night.

The next day saw us driving through mountains again.  I don't have any photos of the view because we couldn't see the view.  We drove almost the whole way inside a cloud!  When we got to Cooma there was  the NSW Corrective Services Museum.  A museum devoted to prisons, prisoners and convicts.

 

 
We carried on to Canberra and checked into our hotel before visiting the Botanic Garden.

 

Just one day left of our road trip before meeting up with the family.  I'll tell you all about that in my next post.

Thank you for joining me today
Bernice 

Plants & Flowers

This month's theme for the photography group was Plants & Flowers.  Fortunately I saw lots of different flora in Australia.  Enjoy the wattle, banksia and other unknown to me plants.

 

Well done for getting this far.

Before the residency started Roger and I had a 2 week holiday.  My next post will be about our road trip from Melbourne to Canberra.

Thanks for being here today
Bernice