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July 13, 2006
Canberra: The Real "Biggest Little City in the World"
Canberra is the nation's capital. It was planned by, ironically, an American and is still a long way off from growing into itself. There are about 325,000 people in the city, but it feels like a city 1/10th that size. It's were I to imagine a post-apocalyptic city it would look alot like Canberra.
As the capital, Canberra has all the government buildings and many of the national museums and monuments. The War Memorial is also a museum and has the best technology integration I've ever seen. Multi-media is seamlessly woven into the exhibits and you hardly notice the novelty--it's quite well done. One particular show had audio and video from a WWII air raid projected on a two story wall with full surround sound and supporting theatrics like searchlights in the mueseum to match searchlights in the film. It was most excellent.
If you end up having a choice between touring Sydney and touring Canberra, I highly recommend the latter.
Posted by james at July 13, 2006 07:31 AM
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James,
Any SCUBA lessons to be had either of these places?
Posted by: Adrian at July 15, 2006 05:33 PM