The Tassie Trip Part 2

Sunday 29th January: Big day on the road. Travelled through Glenn Innes, Armidale, Tamworth and ended up at a free camp at Premer. Well almost free - $10 donation to the Lions Club. Rained most of the day. Had a stop at Guyra to visit the Lamb and Potato festival. Bought a Lamb and Potato pie for tea - delicious. Premer was like a town from Deliverance - every "house" had at least 3 car bodies in the yard.


Monday 30th January: Another big day on the road. Travelled via Gulgong, Wellington, Cowra and ended up at a free camp at Binalong - home of Banjo Patterson and various bushrangers. Met 3 strange Muslims on the way at Boorowa. Saw the first sunshine of the trip - hooray!!!!

Tuesday 31st January: Uneventful drive into Canberra. Set up camp at the Showgrounds -quite a few caravans in. Drove to the top of Mt. Ainslie to get a birds eye view of Canberra then started our tour of all the Big Attractions. Visited the New Parliament House- very impressive and then the War Memorial - stayed for the playing of the Last Post at closing time - very moving. Went for a walk around Lake Burley Griffin.



Wednesday 1st Feb: Not so early start and visited the Australian Institute of Sport. Nice to see where $45 Million of our money is spent. The interactive games area was interesting. Visited the National Portrait Gallery and saw a few familiar faces. Then went into the High Court and sat in on a taxation fraud case. By the end of the day the rain had set in.




Thursday 2nd Feb: The rain is really set in. Went back to finish touring the War Memorial and found Uncle Greg's name on the Honour Wall - so many names so many stories. In the afternoon we visited the Mint - unfortunately they weren't giving out samples


Friday 3rd Feb: Another rainy day!!!! Shopping at Aldi's then went into the city to have a look around. Very pleasant city centre with Malls and plenty of shops. Bought some thermals for Tasmania - Marg can't wait to try hers on. Visited the National Museum in the afternoon.