Glebe Park is a gorgeous inner city park, so much so that you have no idea you're actually in the…read moremiddle of the city. Trees manage to hide most of the park from the busy streets and construction work around it, and you get the chance to just escape for a while. There's a playground that doesn't look incredibly exciting, but meets all your essential playground needs, and there's also plenty of picnic and barbecue options. Plus it's pretty cool to have a picnic with Gandhi watching over you. There is one weird section of the park that just doesn't have the same charm. It's almost like the land is actually owned by one of the nearby developments and they just couldn't care less about it. They'd be better off putting up a fence than leaving it pathetically sitting in the corner.

Unmitigated disaster - the now ACT premier Andrew Barr met a few hipsters in a cool cafe precinct…read moreat the launch of an art exhibition and decided (presumably shook hands on the deal after a few sherbets) that this million-dollar popup made out of yellow containers stuck on an old Futsal slab next to the lake would somehow replicate Canberra's inner-north hipster district and attract tourists. It is not only an eyesore, it is completely dead, including during school holidays when tourists are roaming Canberra. There is supposed to be a bar atop the edifice, but I have yet to see a patron. I think there is supposed to be a kebab shop there, but I wouldn't risk it, as there is simply no turnover. Westside is actually too depressing to go near any day of the week - park and head across the footbridge to New Acton where there are cafes and there is food and people.