A trip to Canberra

Life in Sydney is a little bit boring, usually I don’t hang out late in weekdays, because we have to get up early next day. Some of my friends even sleep at 10:00 pm here while they usually sleep at 2am in HK.

So I really look forward to weekends, that we have time to explore this city deeply. Visiting museums or going to Sunday markets are also the good choice. Or you can plan a trip outside city.


A few weeks ago, we went to the capital city, Canberra. Unlike Sydney and Melbourne, Canberra does not carry long history background, so not many people would know this city very well.

Why Canberra to be the capital city? There is a little story I heard from my colleague. When Australia had to set up her capital city, New South Wales and Victoria competed to be the capital state strongly, most of the people could not decide which state is better, finally they chose a place between NSW and Victoria, that’s Canberra.

Canberra is a quite city with lovely sunshine, shining silver trees, low-rise house and hundreds of pigeons, most people who live in Canberra are working for the federal government, you can see beautiful new and old parliament houses in Canberra. Unluckily, we did not come in their sitting period, so we can’t see people debating in the chambers.

But instead we met a young British girl in our youth hostel, she has travelled four months from Britain, Africa to Australia, we all felt excited about her journey, how she lived in the middle of Africa. We even teach her to play Chinese card game. That’s a happy cold night in Canberra, but fulfilled with our laughing in the house.