Canberra is built around a very large lake called Lake Burley Griffin, named after the architect who designed Canberra. The suburbs to the north and south are designated 'Inner' and 'Outer' suburbs, so for example I am staying in an inner north suburb. The fact that Canberra sprang, as it were, complete from the brain of Mr Burley Griffin, rather than developing naturally over a series of centuries as other capital cities did, means that you do not get the phenomenon of villages being swallowed up and giving their names to parts of the city, as you do in London, for example. Hence the inner and outer, north and south. The map below hopefully demonstrates the planned symmetry and circular design of the city.
But this leads me to an important question - if I know that I am in a north inner suburb, then why does the design of my apartment suggest instead that I am somewhere in France?
Yes, that is a very large Eiffel Tower on the wall of the living room between the bathroom and the kitchen. I also have a little model on the table and lots of cushions bearing the image of the Tower on the bed.
No, I don't know either.
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