Breakfast along Franklin Street, Canberra
This was my first ever trip to the Australian Capital Territory and I was pleasantly surprised at how large the ACT was with only about 350,000 residents living in the area. The day we arrived, Wednesday 19th April was a very pleasantly sunny and refreshingly cool morning. I had arranged for a car hire from the airport and it was a very seamless experience. With the GPS, it was very easy to get around. It took us all told about 20 minutes to get into the city centre, and our hotel was in the Forrest neighbourhood.
Franklin Street, Canberra
ACT is a very well laid out city, a small town actually and really great for a slower pace of life. The people residing there are mainly white Australians with a smattering of people of other races. The town centre of Manuka is quite lovely, boasting Italian, Chinese, Vietnamese and European cuisines. There is the ubiquitous MacDonalds at the edge of the centre, and a Coles supermarket too. In the evenings apart from the dining and several drinking pubs, the place is placid , quiet and rather dark. There are few and far between street lamps along the housing estates.
Perfect Weather for a Stroll to the Shops
The houses are well spaced out and the scenery is in one word, lovely. Since there are no direct flights to Canberra, we had to first fly in to Sydney and then take a small propeller plane flight of about 1 hour into the Canberra airport.There is a huge lake beside the Parliament House and I guess during the summer and autumn months there would be plenty of water sports. Its indeed very liveable, and the climate is quite temperate.
Most people coming here would make a day trip from Sydney or Melbourne, though I am told that it is easy to drive from Sydney - approximately 3 hours by car. Since this was a targetted business trip, I decided to go for the shortest time to customer location and return.
Lovely colours beside the townhouses
Here's hoping my project kicks off in the ACT !!
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