After a slightly uncomfortable night, we wake and prepare to leave Canberra. The sky is blue and there is snow on the tops of the ranges.
We check out of the hotel and walk across to the Canberra Centre to drop off our luggage into the parked car.
Alex has decided that he doesn’t want to see the National Dinosaur Museum because he’s been to the one in Fukui this year and it is unlikely to be as impressive. I imagine that is true, but I’ve never been to the Canberra version.
Instead they want yum cha.
We arrive too early at the Yum Cha CBD restaurant, so wander around the other closed shops until we find a decent Asian grocery, which amuses us for a while.
The yum cha, our first in a while, is okay, not superb. It’s a small restaurant and not as noisy as your typical Chinese yum cha in Sydney. At least the service is rapid, except when B requests lor bak, which never arrives. We are full anyway.
Then we return to the Canberra Centre, collect our car and drive towards home, traffic milder than usual for the last day of school holidays, the wind having died down a bit but still strong. I take the first leg until we refuel at Marulan, then B takes over. Surprisingly, the fuel is cheaper at the Marulan BP than our usual cheap servo in Padstow.
We stop to buy groceries before returning to the house, as if we’d never spent a night away.