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latest archive about email links yearbook japan photoblog wish list	Sun Aug 19 01 / 6:39 AM We went to Canberra last weekend. What an interesting city - the first time. We went there by bus and left by train. On the way there we had amazing scenery and a harrowing ride up a mountain, complete with hairpin turns, sheer drops, a single lane serving two streams of traffic, and no return service after dark. Canberra is so strange. It's Australia's capital, surrounded by its own tiny state called Australian Capital Territory. But you cross more than a border when you come to Canberra: you enter the freaking Twilight Zone. The city is planned, and it feels artificial - but that is a hard feeling to reconcile with the inborn notion of what a city should be. All the streets and views are identical, there are no gardens, nobody lives there. Nobody is out on their lawn, or walking their dog, or driving by. Canberra is that vaguely disturbing city from your dreams. Damn cool. The first time. On the way home we saw a herd of kangaroos in the field outside the train. Boing boing boing boing ... go Australia! The ride was extra long because we had to go via Sydney, but every hour felt good because I was going somewhere.
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Lisa Higgs
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