The midweek, Melbourne – Canberra run must be the biggest money-making scam this country has going; at best you might be lucky enough to snaffle a 1-way fare for about three-fitty, but in the main, you're looking at a blow-out of six-fitty and up. I guess it's supply and demand; and charging exorbitant travel tabs to tax-payer [over-]funded execs and pollies may well be the only way to keep a fabricated city with no industry or self-sustaining infrastructure afloat.
The result of this feat of award-winning town planning is that Donkey, visiting our national capital next week for a one-and-half hour meeting, is looking down the barrel of having to kill 3 hours until after five just to escape the day within a reasonable budget. What the hell am I going to do, other than sit in bland cafes fitted-out with generic office partitions, drinking disgusting brews at twice the price? God Save the Governor General, indeed!
The title of this pic is "Painfully bored woman in cafe" – welcome to Canberra. Pic: http://dailypic.co.uk
you need to check http://www.culturazi.com/ before your next ACT endurance trial.
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SNAP! Two birds with one stone; great, related response and some wonderful new reading for me ... thanks Stackie
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