Canberra Reviews

I absolutely love Canberra. I had only been in Australia for three weeks when I came here, and had spent all of them in Sydney, so Canberra was a nice change of pace. The first thing I noticed was how quiet and peaceful it was. And how green! For a city, there are certainly a lot of trees! I like to do a lot of walking when I ...  Read the complete review

I like to go all out when I travel, and since I’ve made it all the way to Australia (and, incredibly, managed to get someone else to pay for it all under the pretence that it’s a business trip) I’m keen to take advantage of my temporary location and see it all, or as much as my time frame will allow. This weekend, therefore, I decided to pop off ...  Read the complete review

Canberra is like nowhere else I have ever been. It feels like something Disney would have created; one of his perfect towns. However, Canberra is far from perfection. The first thing that you notice is just how wide the roads are, and that there are roundabouts, rare things in Australia! It is veyr green, and there are also no people, anywhere. ...  Read the complete review

Ignore what people - both fellow travellers and Australians - say, Canberra is worth stopping off at. It might not be beautiful and it might lack the cosmopolitanism of Sydney and Melbourne but it has at least four things well worth doing - 1) The War Museum - a superb monument to the efforts of the ANZACs. There is more than enough to ...  Read the complete review

I was told that anyone who spent more than a week in the diplomatic meeting place would find themselves attending the House of Representative for entertainment. There was a lack of evening traffic heading into Canberra from the Hume Highway turn-off. Lorries pounded across from Sydney to Perth, but the branch to Canberra bore little fruit ...  Read the complete review

Canberra is a very beautiful city It is situated in the hills within driving distance of both Sydney and Melbourne. The streets are very well laid out and much use is made of water with an artificial lake and fountains. The old houses of parliament are very interesting and the new ones beyond description. ...  Read the complete review