Day 10 - January 27

we woke up and left to get on our flight at 8:30 am, to fly from Melbourne to Canberra, we landed and quickly stopped for coffee at this cafe call Bread Butter, where we got some great bacon and eggs. We then quickly went to drop our stuff off at our rooms in the Capital Executive Apartment Hotel.

After that we went to the Australian National Botanical Gardens (Nature). The ANBG has the worlds most comprehensive display of Australian native plant life so we saw some pretty interesting species of plants, the gardens contain over 1.2 million specimens. Walkways meander through the various gardens , including an aboriginal plant use walk that explains many medical and practical uses of the plants. We then went to a great cafe called Floresco in the gardens where they had some great lunch specials like lasagna and chicken Schnitzel parmigiana.

After Lunch we made our way to Canberra Glassworks (Culture), Canberra Glassworks is and Art Gallery and Glass art Studio where the general Public can go and view glass artists works. artsACT and Jon Stanhope, Canberran Chief Minister and Minister for the Arts announced the name of the centre in late 2005, specifically to highlight 'Canberra' as a being potentially well reputed both nationally and internationally for studio glass and the term 'glassworks' to be clear about what equipment and facilities where available at the centre to artists as well as to the general public. the centre is strongly linked with the ANU school of Art Glass Workshop. It was originally scheduled to be opened in september 2006 but was inevitably opened in may 2007. there we were able to watch people and students make amazing works out of glass that were simply mind blowing.

After that we went to BrodBurger, a very nice burger place set right in the Canberra Glassworks so we thankfully didn't have to go far, we all bot the baby sized brodburger, the food was amazing, it turned out to be one of the best meals i had this trip. we then went back to our hotel to get some well deserved rest