Canberra for the first time

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...