Smiley Nomad

My uncle's family invited me to join with them to visit the Warratina lavendar festival. I was quite keen on this as I have heard how beautiful lavender farms were. The day before, I prepared the cheesecake I had promised my cousin. As usual I was late to wake up, packed the cheese cake in a hurry, damaged the cheesecake on my way with a sudden break and arrived at my uncle's by mid morning. We took off to Warratina which took us about 1 hour. As expected the place was filled with people. There were 2 separate patches of lavender. They were still in the bloom, still not fully blossomed. To be honest I was kind of visually underwhelmed. I was expecting a lavender farm which runs to the horizon. Instead it was may be 50m each. The smell of the lavender made up for the lack of a visual treat. What a soothing smell... Bees were going extasic over the lavenders too for the smell or nectar I was not sure. I thought the dried leaves smelt even better. There were a fe...

Now that you are paying 500 dollars for a domestic flight, you might as well make the best use of it, and it's been a long time since we saw Barry, my little brother from a Nigerian mother. So we decided to make a trip to Canberra, the beautiful capital of Australia. We booked a bus tour with Murray tours and for me and mother it cost only 80 dollars one-way from Sydney to Canberra. The bus was very comfortable, starting at the central bus station in Sydney with a stop at the Sydney airport then non-stop all the way to Canberra in just over 3 hours. The countryside New South Wales is mostly covered by farm land stretching all the way to the horizon studded by a few mountains. In this scorching summer day the sky was of a beautiful blue with refreshingly white clouds scattered all over, it was a beautiful scenery to behold, well of course in the comfort of the AC of the coach. Leaving all the farm land behind, we reached Canberra, and it hit me again (first time wa...