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   Heatwave...

Sorry for the lack of postage, but I've been so stuffed from all this hot weather. Not to mention that yesterday was just too much effort. I ended up crying myself to sleep.

So today, on my first day off since forever, I went sightseeing. Since I can't display my photos here, I'm going to have to provide links.

I started out at Parliament House, where I took the guided tour given by a very helpful woman who managed to answer all of my questions before I had a chance to ask them. Excellent training, peoples.

Then I wandered down the hill (and got attacked by a million bugs) to explore some of the embassies, particularly the chinese, new zealand, british, and papua new guinea embassies. I love the way everyone uses old-school native archetecture (well, not ancient native, but native anyway).

Then I found the Surveyor's Hut which was where they kept all the original maps of Canberra as they were trying to figure out what they were going to do with the place. Eventually they ended up flooding an awful lot of it, but that's another story.

The Canberra-Nara Park is an odd mix of Japanese and Australian gardening styles, with several traditional japanese pagodas next to fair-dinkum aussie barbeques. It's right on the edge of the lake though, which makes for good views.

Around lunchtime (which I completely forgot about) I found myself at the National Library which is suitably massive, with pretty stained glass windows, and a really nice photography exhibition (only available until april, I think).

What else? I discovered the National Portrait Gallery and the National Gallery of Australia, both of which had some good exhibitions going on. Then to the Old Parliament House, which I plan on visiting again next week when I have more time.

I'm sorry I rushed through the last few, but I'm really hot here, and keeping my hands on a warm computer is melting my own circuits. It's apparantly going to be cooler tomorrow.

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