Just back from some quality time with my girl in Ballarat, what a city, despite the temps of 7 degrees feels like 2.4 degrees (how the hell does that even work?). If only Perth could have preserved it's awesome architecture in the same way as Ballarat, wow what a city we'd have over here.
Highlight of the flight there: Flight attendant assuming my surname contained the word rape. don't ask.
Highlight of the flight home: QANTAS pilot announcing we were on a southerly approach to Jandakot airport (West Aussies will know that Jandakot is the tiny airport south of Perth where all the widdle planes wand). Thankfully our Airbus Industrie A330-200 landed at Perth airport as per our agreed upon plan devised between QANTAS and myself when I booked the flight.
Anyhoo, here are all the pretty pics of Ballarat and surrounds...
The buildings and the towers, my god the towers.
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| Downtown Ballarat |
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| It is what it says it is, or was |
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| So many towers and spires and turrets and things up high. |
Then a visit to the Botanical Gardens for some statue action
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| Flight from Pompeii |
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| The Scottish section |
A day trip to nearby Daylesford, a great spot.
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| Breakfast and Beer together finally, as they should always have been |
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| The aforementioned beer |
Art Gallery of Ballarat
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| Ajax and Cassandra - The Rape of Cassandra |
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| "Emerging Artist" by Duncan Lannan. His 'Young, Dumb and Full of Ambition' exhibition |
You should visit Ballarat, it is very good yes.
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Truly the architecture is something to behold. Oh, well, we managed to keep the Old Melbourne and Newspaper House...