After three jam packed days in Sydney, filled with going to museums, Art Galleries and wandering around neat areas of the city like Paddington where they have small boutique after small boutique of local designers. Oh to be skinny - I would have had a field day. Instead I had to content myself with going to Dinosaur and buying some really colourful earings and ring.
After all the flying, we decided to take the bus to Canberra to stay with the kids. A good choice as it went from City to City with easy drop off points in the middle. No security line ups or having to get out to the airports. Very relaxing and a good way to see the countryside flying by without having to contend with driving on the other side of the road.
Floriade was going on while we were in Canberra so we spent quite a lot of time walking through the flower plantings.
I liked the use of an old car
These are fruit bats hanging in the trees
They had huge sculptural flowers hanging in the trees. I gather they are lit at night and look even more spectacular.
A lot of our time was spent doing things with the kids, hiking around the local area, going to the museum etc.
I was particularly taken with the variety of really interesting play areas for the children. No boring stuff here. The area was both safe for the kids, fun but also aesthetically pleasing.
Kids were also taken care of in the coffee shops as well. Did I mention Australia has the best coffee ever? Flat whites are my new favourite. They really take their coffee seriously and no matter which small out of the way place we had coffee - we never had a bad one on our whole trip. This is a "babychino" which was offered in every coffee shop for the kids. Different each time, but this one was in the museum and was not only artistic but came with a lovely marshmallow. It was basically frothy milk. But it kept the kids busy so we were able to enjoy our own coffees.
These were some interesting sculptures in the museum garden.
We saw so many beautiful birds on our trip. This is one of the Rosella's that were in my daughter's garden. We saw them every morning.
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