Sydney to Canberra - the rain stopped when we entered ACT.
The freeway / highway was not crowded.
The Parliament House was one of the few things we've been able to visit (or where we saw something interesting) as we arrived around 17:00 on Saturday so everything was closed at that time.
The parking space is somewhere under the building and it was quite strange as we didn't saw any sign that the parking space is for visitors. Remember, we were coming from Sydney, so I was expecting to pay the parking at least here at the Parliament House...
You can go on the hill almost to the top. If you go during visiting hours, you should be able to visit more.
You'll have a nice view over the city from here.
Somewhere in the city - the autumn looks nicer in Canberra.
On Saturday evening there was a big event - Canberra day or something..
The streets of Canberra - it was early on Sunday morning so almost nobody on the streets.
On the way back to Melbourne
I noticed that in Victoria the Rest Areas are nicer than in NSW or ACT. Many of them have BBQ areas with 3-4 bbqs. Don't know if they work as I haven't tried, and some were not clean (I wouldn't eat something done on them), but anyway, you have options :)
This is nice for example if you go on a holiday with a camper van, and you want to stop for a bbq :)
I noticed I was more tired after Canberra to Melbourne, than the initial Melbourne - Sydney, but we made it back. Our Verada is very nice to drive on such long trips.
Last impressions after this trip:
- it was nice that we saw that part of Australia, it is ok to drive there as the roads are not crowded, but there is not much to see. If you want to take the time to stop on the way there in some other cities, it might be much more interesting.
- the parking in Sydney is very expensive. I recommend, if you don't have any plans/time to visit something else while you are there, to go there by airplane and rent a car if you really need to do some trips (Blue Mountains etc). As I was busy during the day (training), we didn't have time to do any trips so the car stayed in the parking all week (at level 7 - underground. I was not able to understand the floor numbers, as it started from 3 ... so only 4 levels down, but anyway considering the age of that building it was an unique experience to get the car from there).
- not much to see/do in Canberra and the restaurants are expensive (we stayed there from Saturday to Sunday morning, so this statement might not be correct, but the city is not really a touristic destination).
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