I seem to remember reading, when we came to Australia, that Canberra had been designed, not only to "look" nice, but to be easy to navigate around!! However, for over 20 years my Father and I would, on our trips to Canberra, go in search of the railway station. There it was, on the map. There were signposts directing one to the railway station. But we were never successful in finding it. I can even remember one sign which pointed the way - it was a pathway, which cut straight across the centre of a roundabout, which roundabout had a small forest growing in the middle of it. So Dad drove around the roundabout to find the other end of the pathway. There was a signpost on the other end of the pathway also pointing the way to the station .... straight back towards the side of the roundabout to where we'd started!!!
Many's the time I've done the same as Noelene - apparently missed the road I'm looking for, but ended up where I wanted to be anyway...can't really work it out! (For those who don't know - a large area in the centre of Canberra has roads which are based on a circular pattern...if I remember correctly, a circular road around Parliament House is the centre of it all, and the circles get bigger the further away from PH you get. Now Adelaide...that's another matter!!!! A planned city, with nice straight roads planned on a grid - impossible to get lost there!! Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) --- W & N Lafferty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But as that involved a maze of roads, I opted for the > simpler route of turning south, and linking up with a major road that would > curve around to the east then back west and end up very close to where I > wanted to go. According to the street directory, that is. > > I never did find the major road, but some 10 minutes later I found myself > at the intersection of the street where I wanted to get to, http://personals.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Personals New people, new possibilities. FREE for a limited time. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
