Take family time out with a Holiday during the Floriade Festival in Canberra.

Floriade is a flower and entertainment festival held annually in Canberra's Commonwealth Park featuring extensive displays of flowering bulbs with integrated sculptures and other artistic features. 

The festival attracts tourists from around Australia and overseas in spring from mid September to mid October each year and is particularly popular with families seeking time out. There are great kids’ programs, the Floriade NightFest and the opportunity to explore the many free entertainments in the Canberra neighbourhood.

Exhibitions and displays give a taste of fresh and healthy living, fashion displays, floral art, crafts and fine art, horticultural displays and practical tips and advice on home gardening and outdoor living are all on offer.

Getting there is easy using mini bus charter or coach hire whether you live in Melbourne or Adelaide, Perth or Darwin.  Mini bus charter Melbourne will make airport transfer easy on the whole family and save on the parking costs.  For a larger group, perhaps a gardeners club in Adelaide, try coach hire to make the travel easier.  

Floriade comes from the Latin word floriat, which means to design with flowers and the festival came into being when Peter Sutton, working with his colleague, landscape designer Chris De Bruine, developed a proposal for a grand floral display to celebrate Australia's Bicentenary and Canberra's 75th birthday in 1988. It was so popular that it has been an annual event ever since.

Work on the festival is year-round. Planning starts in February each year and over the following months beds are prepared and Some 1500 cubic metres of top quality planting compost is spread to a depth of 15 cm. Then the planting of more than a million bulbs starts. Plants include a mix of flowers, to create the kaleidoscope of colours including tulips, irises, daffodils, hyacinths, violas, chrysanthemums, ranunculus and English daisies. Clean-up is from end October to December.

Different flowers bloom at different times but there’s always great colour throughout the event. It is constantly changing as the different plants come into flower, so visit a few times if you can.

NightFest is a Floriade’s after-dark extravaganza which features live music, comedy and acrobatics performances, movies and shopping.

There are plenty of other attractions to explore around Canberra including

Namadgi National Park.  Namadgi is the Aboriginal word for the mountains south-west of Canberra. Its north-west section of the park is just to the west of Canberra's suburbs and to the south-west, the park joins Kosciuszko National Park and the Bimberi and Scabby Range Nature Reserves. The Bimberi Wilderness covers the south-western section of Namadgi National Park. 

For the sports minded and active, there is Stromlo Forest Park, just ten minutes from the city.  It is a world-class recreational sporting facility for both recreational and professional users with a cycling circuit, grass cross country running track and mountain bike tracks to suit any level of rider as well as various trails suitable for equestrian riders, runners and walkers keen on exploring the Canberra countryside. 

The city itself holds the National Archives of Australia, Canberra Museum and Gallery, National Gallery of Australia, Gallery of Australian Design, the National Film and Sound Archive, Old Bus Depot Markets and 35 Km southwest of the city is the Canberra Space Centre where visitors can have the chance to learn about the role that Australia plays in the exploration of space, take a hands-on trip around the Solar System or across the galaxy, or relax in the Moon Rock Café.

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Tours in Yarra Valley are a good Way to Relax and Explore not only the Vineyards

Making Perth, Sydney or Adelaide a base for exploring along Australia’s southern coastal stretch is easy with charter coach and minibus hire.

The Yarra Valley is a particularly popular tour destination using a charter bus Sydney or a mini bus charter from Adelaide for a leisurely exploration of Victoria’s best known wine growing district, whose history goes back for more than 160 years. Vines were first planted in 1838, and viticulture spread rapidly through the 1860s and 1870s.

The Valley's western boundary begins just 45 kilometres east of Melbourne. This large wine region is bordered by the towns of Gembrook in the south, Kinglake in the north, Wantirna in the west and Mount Gregory in the east. Major towns include Lilydale, Healesville, Yarra Glen and St Andrews.

Its varied terrain makes it possible to produce a range of classic wine styles.  The Yarra Valley is also home to many young winemakers creative cutting edge style wines. Over eighty wineries represent the full range of the region's international reputation for quality wine. Wine labelled "Yarra Valley" must consist of at least 85% Yarra Valley fruit.

However, there is more to the Yarra Valley than wine, including Australia’s oldest steam train, Puffing Billy, and colonies of artists as well as the city of Melbourne nearby.

Puffing Billy is Australia's oldest steam railway and one of the best preserved steam railways in the world. The train is the last of the experimental narrow-gauge railway lines built at the turn of the 20th century, and easily accessible from Melbourne. Its open-sided carriages are a great way to see the stunning views. It is also possible to catch the train at any of the stations along the way or watch the train go by from one of the stations' refreshment rooms.

Also in the region for those there in springtime the National Rhododendron Gardens, which contain thousands of rhododendrons, azaleas, camellias and daffodils, are a riot of colour and well worth a visit. 

During hot summer days there is the shade of the woodlands of the RJ Hamer Arboretum or visit the feature waterfalls in the Alfred Nicholas Gardens.  In winter experience the dripping tree ferns hiding clay sculptures in the tranquil William Ricketts Sanctuary. 

Dandenong Ranges National Park contains forests of mountain ash and plunging fern gullies. It is home to the lyrebird and the thundering Sherbrooke Falls.

Art and artists are also features of the region, which is home of the famous Heidelberg School, including Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton and Frederick McCubbin. Visitors can see where they lived and painted along the Heidelberg School Artists Trail or visit Montsalvat, Australia's oldest artists' colony. Then take in mid-twentieth century artworks from Albert Tucker, Brett Whiteley and more in TarraWarra Museum of Art's sleek galleries. 

It is also possible to get a glimpse of the studios of working wood carvers, painters, digital artists, sculptors, jewellery designers and other artists, when they throw open their doors through the annual Open Studios program.

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Using Well Run Group Transport Hire is a Good Way of Offering Impressive Hospitality to Guests

There are likely to be many demands on a company that can offer efficient group transport in the Northern Territories and around Darwin, which is a relatively sparsely populated area with great appeal for both businesses and for tourists.

The area’s two largest economic sectors are mining and tourism, with the mining and energy industry production exceeding $2.5 billion per annum. The most important mineral resources are gold, zinc, bauxite, and manganese while energy production is mostly off shore with oil and natural gas from the Timor Sea.

This will mean that there is an opportunity for regular coach hire Darwin to transport workers and business visitors, to and from mines and major trade fairs focused on these industries.

Darwin also plays host every year to another well-known and much loved week long event, the Darwin Cup.  Held every year at the Fannie Bay Racecourse around July and August, it attracts many visitors who travel from all over to make a holiday of the week-long carnival, which includes everything from beach markets on Mindil Beach, to harbour cruises on the bay to the Turf Ball and the actual race events themselves.  The first Darwin Cup was held by the newly formed Turf Club in 1956 and it has now grown to be one of the most popular events on the Australian horse racing calendar.

While many people travel across the vast area that is Australia using inter-state flights, they still need to be able to get around once they have arrived.  Using coach hire in Darwin or mini bus charter in Sydney, or Brisbane, or any other major city will help hosts welcoming delegates, politicians, sports teams and other visitors to get around in comfort and promptly.

Visitors can be picked up efficiently using a country-wide company specialising in sourcing and arranging corporate coach and minibus transport in the country’s various cities, makes it possible to organise smooth airport to hotel and hotel to airport transfer and to ensure guests can get where they need to be when the itinerary is packed and involves visiting several locations.

An expert company will be able to cater for any special requirements, whether they involve providing extra security to transporting sporting equipment, or perhaps organising any special facilities for someone who is wheelchair bound.

An efficient company with staff who are knowledgeable about the location and facilities available as well as the various attractions that may be worth a visit will make all the difference for the organisers of corporate and sporting events to ensure they run smoothly.

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Opportunities to Showcase Australia’s Many Attractions and Organising Ability

The recent announcement that hosting the 2018 Commonwealth Games has been awarded to the Gold Coast will provide a great opportunity for showcasing the country’s many attractions, its businesses and not least it’s sporting facilities.

There are several sectors of the economy that are most obviously likely to benefit from this event. They include hospitality, such as hotels, restaurants, bars, tourism, not only in and around Gold Coast, and perhaps most of all the ability of its companies providing group transport networks with the expertise to get large numbers of visitors and equipment where they need to be promptly and efficiently.

Most sports competitors and visitors are likely to arrive from overseas via Sydney Airport.  Organisers will want to be sure that there is transport available, such as chartered buses in Sydney, on hand to deal with airport transfers to get people from the airport to their hotels easily and comfortably.

Most athletes and teams competing at major international competitions generally allow themselves a few weeks to acclimatise and train before the actual event and many may use the facilities in other cities before travelling on to the Gold Coast.

Brisbane, on the East Coast not too far from the Gold Coast, is an obvious example. It has a number of sports facilities for athletics and water sports as well as attractions to enjoy in between training, including the City Botanic Gardens and the cliffs of Kangaroo Point.  Using an experienced transport networking company with offices in cities right across Australia and the ability to can handle efficient moving of both people and equipment will make sure everything runs smoothly.

A charter bus Perth will deal with airport transfers and perhaps transport to different stadiums for training before travelling onwards to the competition itself. Similarly coach hire in Brisbane will help teams get about and perhaps give them time to fit in a few additional activities.

There will be many visitors attracted to the country by the games and some of them may build in time to see something of the rest of the country while they are there. Perhaps the trip has been extended by an additional week or so and this would give them time to explore.

Hosts could for example arrange a charter bus in Perth to allow visitors to explore inside and outside the city, which lies on the Swan River near the West Coast of the country.

Perhaps the most famous attractions in the city’s hinterland are some of the country’s oldest vineyards, and a couple of days of coach touring around the beautiful countryside in which they are set is a great way to relax.

There are plainly going to be many opportunities for a wide variety of businesses as the games approach.

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