A day trip to Canberra

Canberra - Parliament House
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Our next stop was Canberra - some 300km away and we managed to make it as far as Goulburn before finding ourselves a motel and crashing for the night. Goulburn is a fairly large town of 20,000 or so but there didn't seem any real point to it. It had a central road and only one pub (???). We didn't hang around long enough to find out any more.

Our reason for visiting Canberra was to get ourselves a Vietnamese visa which are only available at consulates. We got to the Embassy about ten which was in a leafy superb of Canberra called O'Malley. We had a bit of a palava trying to sort it all out as we were about $20 short of the fee so I had to dash off and find an ATM. Thankfully all sorted and they now have our passports so fingers crossed the visa comes through soon.

Canberra itself is very weird

Parliament House and the fountain in Lake Burley Griffin
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Canberra itself is very weird. It looks very nice and the Parliament House looks very intriguing with a metal thing on top. The city itself is a ghost town. We wandered round it for about an hour or so and saw about three people. Maybe four. Lots of empty restaurants and cafes but no actual shops or anything. We took a few photos and decided to head back to Sydney and Civilisation.