The following things happened during our visit to Canberra: Our train to Canberra was stuck at a place called Tarago, NSW, for over an hour due to an obstruction on the tracks (at one stage we were told we would have to get off the train and wait for a road coach). Upon arrival at the hotel, over an hour after check-in time, we had to wait for our room due to a system failure. The air-conditioning in the room was stuck on Arctic, and could not be repaired. The hotel had no spare rooms, despite it being midweek, out of season, and parliament not sitting, so we had to make do with a blow heater, which was full of dust and smelt funny. At least the paintings were good . We waited at a taxi rank in the busiest part of the Canberra CBD for nearly 45 minutes from 4pm. No taxis. It's not that there was a queue for cabs; there were simply no vehicles at all. Having missed our train because of this, and unable to arrange coach travel, we went to the airport. The good folk at Virgin Blue wer