Canberra, Bondi Beach

On the way back to Sydney, I stopped by Canberra (the nation's capital) for a few days to see. There's not much happening there but it looked like a decent place to work though. They have a huge, and I mean enormous, mall and a few art galleries but besides that, I didn't find much to do there. One thing that was a pleasant surprise was the bar next to the hostel had a pretty good DJ. It was nice to hear some good music that I recognize. That same bar hosted Hermitude on another day. Hermitude, which they call an "electro hip hop band", is basically 2 DJ that performed some electro instrumental music, scratching and making innovative sounds to sort of build a song live. It was really nice to see that those types of DJs still exist, apparently not in the states though. They were pretty good so I bought their CD.

After Canberra, I headed back to Sydney, this time staying near Bondi Beach. It was decent, although I'm not as into the beach as everybody else there was. They did have a long walk with a bunch of artwork that passes a couple other beaches. That was kind of cool and some of them were interesting, particularly a can of campbell's soup with a detailed sculpture of a man's head on top. The beach had some graffitti and murals on the wall as well that were pretty nice. It was relaxing to just chill on a nice day there.