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                                         CANBERRA






                            Emma Herbert of helloworld Lambton Quay, Wellington and her team
                                          packed a lot into a weekend in Canberra.


          Canberra is a great destination for   indigenous Australian collections and the
          a holiday or for a stopover if you’re   building’s very interesting architecture.
          heading further afield. Our helloworld
          team set off for a weekend trip on   PM: A 40-minute walk around Lake
          Singapore Airlines’ Friday evening   Burley Griffen took us to Canberra
          service from Wellington which gets   Central where we indulged in some
          into Canberra at 10.05pm local time.   retail therapy including visits to David
                                         Jones, Myer, Zara and Target.
          Singapore Airlines uses an older Boeing   For dinner, we headed over to Manuka
          777-200R on the route but it still has
          the same fantastic Singapore Airlines   again to Bellucci’s, one of several very
                                         good local Italian trattorias where we
          service and good entertainment and
          meal options you expect. You can also   enjoyed modern Italian cuisine washed
                                         down with BYO wine.
          enjoy a Singapore Sling!
                                         DAY TWO
          Canberra Airport is small and easy
          to manage with quick taxi and Uber   AM: This morning we jumped on our
          transfers to accommodation. A good   bikes! East Hotel offers complimentary
          alternative is to hire a car as the city   bike hire to its guests but as the bike
          is quite spread out.           numbers are limited we also hired some
                                         from Spinway Canberra. We cycled
          DAY ONE                        down to and around the lake to the
          AM: We stayed at the beautiful East   weekly Sunday markets which are held
          Hotel in Kingston about 4km from the   from 10am to 4pm at the Old Bus Depot
          centre of Canberra. It’s an apartment-  Market in Kingston. There are stalls full of
          style property suitable for business and   arts and crafts and lots of different food
          leisure guests and includes a couple   offerings and there is also entertainment
          of family apartments complete with   in the form of singing and dancing. We
          bunks, bean bags and PlayStations.  then biked back around the lake to
                                         Parliament grounds and Capital Crescent
          Our first stop on Saturday morning   before heading back to the hotel.
          was for brunch at Pâtissez about five
          minutes’ walk away in Manuka where we   PM: We headed off by Uber for more
          experienced their famous FreakShakes   retail therapy at IKEA. Dinner that night
          as well as their amazing food.  was pizza at Agostini’s, the very chic-
                                         looking restaurant at East Hotel (yes,
          Next we caught a taxi for the 15-minute   there is a bit of an Italian theme going
          (AU$20) ride to the National Museum   on). And then after a busy weekend
          of Australia in Acton. Its focus is   it was time to pack our bags for next
          on Australia’s social history and we   morning’s trip home.
          particularly enjoyed the extensive


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