Canberra is perhaps the lesser well known capital city of Australia and mainly consists of government buildings, museums and wide open green areas.
A tour of Parliament House is a must. Parliament had not got back to work after the long Christmas-summer holiday
And who should be up on the roof of the Parliament building but the Queen herself pictured here with our very good friend Myriam and us.
And here we are inside the House of Representatives - notice I am wearing a patriotic baseball cap!
Margaret relaxes in the hotel lobby.
Also staying in the hotel while we were there was the former Australian Cricket team captain Ricky Ponting and he generously posed for a photo with Lauren and Nathan after autographing their paper table place setting mats.
The Sculpture Garden is so interesting. Above we have Aristide Maillol's La Montagne,...
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...a smaller version of Anthony Gormley's Angel of the North,...
...Rick Amor's The Dog, which seemed quite friendly,...
...Auguste Rodin's nude study of the burghers of Calais posing with me, (with my clothes on!)...
...and Bert Flugelman's Cones stand making the seemingly impossible into reality.
All the buildings are architectural delights set in plenty of space making this a very pleasant capital city indeed.
