Leaving Mallacoota. Starting practicaly at sea level heading towards Canberra, the capital.
The road takes you over Snowy Mountains on a beautiful highway, up to 1100m above sea level, when all of a sudden a whole
new world opens up to you. Vast areas of pastures and meadows that are a sight for sore eyes. Driving on
Australia's roads is an adventure by itself an mostly enjoyable experience. Much of it to do with their
driving manners.So what to say about Canberra. The city was "built" as a result of constant bickering between Sydney and
Melbourn as to which city deserves to be crowned the capital of the nation.
The city is a perfect example of form
following function as everything is placed just right. The streets,buildings and traffic...everything is designed
to perform a function. At the center of the city is the Australian Parliament, an impressive building thath houses
the government, house of representatives (among them is Tanja Plibersek of Slovenian descent) and the senate.


We've stayed in Canberra YHA a huge hostels with some 300 rooms and had a great bbq (barbacue) on the roof.
Organized by the YHA staff. During and after the BBQ had a pleasent conversation with Daniel from Germany who
just arrived to Canberra to finish his BSc Thesis in Aeronauthics...impressive.

Zapuščava Mallacooto. Najina pot se začenja praktično ob morju in vodi proti Canberri, glavnemu mestu.
Cesta naju je peljala preko Snowy Mountains (Snežne Gore) po prekrasni avtocesti vse do 1100 nadmorske višine,
ko se je pred nama odprl nov svet brez konca, pašniki,travniki, res pravi obliž za utrujene oči.
Že sama vožnja po Avstralskih cestah je prekrasno doživetje, zasluga za to je tudi v kulturi vožnje Avstralcev.
Nekaj kar bi se morali naučiti tudi sami. In kaj poreči o Canberri? Mesto je bilo "narejeno" kot posledica konstantnega
prepiranja med Melbourne-om in Sydney-em o tem kdo in zakaj bi moral biti glavno mesto celotne nacije.

V Canberri oblika vsekakor sledi funkciji saj je prav vse postavljeno "pravilno". Ceste,stavbe,promet...vse opravlja svojo natačno
določeno funkcijo. V središču mesta stoji Avstralski parlament, impresivna zgradba v kateri se nahajajo prostori
vlade, parlamentarnih poslancev (med njimi tudi Tanje Plibersek s slovenskimi koreninami) in senatorjev.
Noč sva preživela v Canberra YHA, ogromnem hostlu s kake 300 sobami,kjer je osebje zvečer na strehi pripravilo odličen
BBQ (roštilj). Med in po sami roštiljadi pa sva se zapletla v prijeten pogovor z Danijelom, Nemcem ,ki je prišel v
Canberro zaključiti svojo diplomsko nalogo iz Aeronavtike. Impresivno ni kaj.