The itinery is starting to finally gel into something a bit more solid. The restaurant for Monday night is not yet decided as I believe it would be better if it is one of the ones in the CBD (there are heaps) to make transport easy for everyone and I would prefer to take a look in person rather than just picking one off the net. I'll give everyone an update on where around mid October when I will have had a chance to try a couple of places out. If you have been to Canberra recently and have any suggestions please tell me.
Tuesday is still totally up in the air as to what we are doing as I have had no suggestions from anyone yet. I suggest we meet up somewhere after work in the next couple of weeks and have a discussion on where to go/what to do. From checking around on the net most of the places are open just not the bits we would be interested in as library technicians.
Wednesday morning as previously advised in this blog will be the National Library and I have now got confirmation of from the National Art Gallery that we will have a tour there on the Wednesday afternoon. They will talk to us in their small theatre and a tour of the Research Library. They have also offered to bring in some of their special collections and archives from off site storage for us to look at. On top of this they are very nicely putting on afternoon tea for us which we will probably need. There will be some time for a quick look at what is on at the gallery displays as well.
Thursday morning will be breakfast at the Last Outpost (just outside the war memorial) followed by a tour of the memorial. I was thinking of taking one of the 1.5 hour general tours of the memorial in this case rather than just asking for a tour of the research centre. If anyone would prefer another type of tour we can discuss it at our get together and I will contact the War Memorial to arrange. All tours at the War Memorial are given by volunteers not by the staff. Thursday afternoon will be up to the individual. You may wish to spend more time at the Memorial or go shopping or someplace like the National Film and Sound Archives that we may not have got to earlier. I admit I will probably be doing some last minute shopping prior to an early night as I have to drive back to Melbourne the next day to catch the ferry home.
See you soon.
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A friend of mine says that the Sound and Film Archives (or whatever it's called) is amazing.
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