Canberra. The Washington D.C. of Australia

The main city of Canberra

the parks and garden design:

The National Galley we checked out. No photos but free entry.....

So from Wollongong we drove to Canberra and stayed with our old Brisbane housemate Royce.

Canberra is full of government buildings. It's a weird city because it was completely planned and the layout was actually designed by American architects and city designers. The strangest part is everything is spaced out similar as to what it would be in the states but with nothing in between. As San diego is a big wide spread city it's also has 1.3 million people while Canberra has a bit over 300,000. Huge difference. This means that you can't function that well in Canberra without a car.

Might sound fine if you're American but every other city in Australia has great public transportation so Canberra is American influenced in a weird way.

A great thing about Canberra is a lot of museums are free.