First weekend…

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009 at 10:58 am

It’s our first weekend here in Brisbane. We got up at 10:30am. We can’t get up late in Scotland because of Pepper. It’s not that he would come to wake us up but we knew it wouldn’t fair to his little stomach and his tiny bowel. We decided to explore the city by walking today. We walked to South Bank Parklands because there was a Buddha’s birthday festival there. It’s a bit early than the one in Thailand. At South Bank every Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday there is a lifestyle market features a range of arts and craft. There was not a lot of people at the Buddha’s area but a lot at the market. We had lunch at Deck’s seafood express. I had calamari and chips. HG had fish and chips.

After lunch we walked across Goodwill bridge to City Botanic gardens. It’s not as big as the one in Edinburgh. It didn’t take us long to finish the whole garden. I think it was here where we started using the phrase ‘Is that it?’. For example, from the map it said there is a Hibiscus garden we went there and there were about 20 plants with about 2-3 flowers in total. It’s a bit disappointing. After that we decided to go check out the market at Brunswick Street near Chinatown but by the time we got there most of the stalls were packing up. So we went back to South Bank for dinner. We had dinner at Amici’s. It was very busy and we almost walked out because we waited quite a long before someone came to take our orders. We had pizza and it was just ok. We walked back home and checked on Google map later that we have done a crazy walk again. It was 17km in total today.

On Sunday, another late morning. We went to shopping at Coles supermarket at Queen Plaza. After took the shopping back to the apartment we decided to check out New Farm area. We would like to see the apartment which we would like to stay but they weren’t available. So we went to Chinatown for lunch and walked down Brunswick Street towards New Farm Park. We found the apartment and thought we would be equally happy here. There are quite a lot of shops around and it is not far from the park. We went down to New Farm Park Ferry Terminal to get Brisbane city cat. We bought off-peak day ticket. We went to Queensland University and back to Regetta in Toowong. We went to a liquor superstore and got some red wine, Gin and Whisky. We got the train from Toowong to Roma Street and walked through Roma Street Parklands back to the apartment. It was dark and I didn’t like it.

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