2017 ... Last minute notice of a family funeral to be held in Canberra was a reason for driving there and staying for two nights. It is always a delight to see our Australian capital although this time very little sight-seeing. The gathering of Canberra relatives, together with others who had travelled there to celebrate a long life well lived, was a pleasure.

Although a beautiful setting for the city, on the Monaro Plains and almost halfway between Melbourne and Sydney, it has no direct train service and is always either a VERY long drive or a short flight. Too late to book a reasonable flight, we drove and made a safe stop-over on the way, at Holbrook, NSW, and on the journey home at Violet Town, Victoria.