2014-05-30

Relaxing.

The TV here was typical of what accommodation now uses, but since none of the places we stayed at offered subscription TV they mustn't get used much. This one in particular would have been hardly used since the aerial socket was so loose that it would fall out if you did as much as whisper. I fixed that in a few seconds with a slight squeeze of pliers on the socket, but all TVs we used had to either be retuned totally or change the settings back to standard from the freakish things that people do trying in vain to get a picture, one of them even had a set top box set to NTSC, which results in a coarse B&W picture, only the under 40s would be impressed by B&W these days, having suffered through it in my youth it's not something I wish to revisit.
The concept of offering an internet connection in Aussie accommodation is still almost unknown and we didn't find any on our trip except for punitive charges like $10 a minute, this is a thing that makes us look bad on the world stage, even Philippines in the lowest price hotels offer free internet.
Our comfy bed for the night, we had a period of near panic in the morning when Jimmy couldn't find his wallet, eventually Olivia found it under the bed, where we believe it had fallen when she had done the tidy thing of hanging up Jimmy's pants.

The end of a short day's travel.

Checking on-line hinted the High Country Motel in Cooma may be right for us, it actually was the best place we stopped at all trip, here I enjoy a good beer and view from our room.
 To help the magic we'd found an Aldi on the edge of town, visible here from our unit, they even sold good beer at a cheap (for us) price. Olivia loved Aldi and we both wish we had one here, but QLD would have to change their protective liquor laws for us to be able to avoid being stung whenever we buy beer.


Two views.

Here's Jimmy doing what he enjoys.
What Jimmy did.

Our Capital.

The Yanks would call the thing under that flagpole the Capitol, the weakness of that system is that many of them don't realise that capital is still a valid word for them to use.
Canberra is a good looking place even through a windscreen.

Poking an ear.

Giving Simpson's donkey a tickle. I haven't rated Simpson very highly in the past but since his myth has been exposed I rate him a bit higher. He had enough sense to only help the lightly wounded, back then any wound had a good chance of causing death so saving the fairly fit makes sense, they may recover and get put back into the front to be killed. Leave the hard work of carrying the badly wounded for others.

Another fail.

I wish I was facing the lion, it would have made this photo usable despite not being sharp.

More from Badcoe rest area.

This was to be our best day of the trip, we didn't travel very far and the weather gods were very kind to us.
Sometimes fun ideas just become fails, here I try to frame myself for Olive's photo.