travel diary — day 230

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day 226 — after break­fast i took the bus into the city and found myself in the queen street mall. it’s such a long time since i’ve been there, and i was sur­prised how little the mall had changed. i wandered around for a while look­ing at the shop win­dows and con­tem­plat­ing a beer at jimmy’s — one of the fam­ous old open air res­taur­ants in the lower mall.

i didn’t have the beer, instead i walked back to the top of the mall and across to the river. i had a cof­fee and then walked over the bridge to south­bank. south­bank has always been one of my favour­ite places in bris­bane. it’s brissie’s cul­tural heart, being home to the lyric theatre (includ­ing the cremorne theatre and the play­house), the queens­land museum, the state lib­rary, the gal­lery of mod­ern art, and the big new bris­bane wheel (like the lon­don eye, but smaller).

i strolled along south­bank, tak­ing pho­tos here and there. i walked through the museum and had a quick look around the art gal­lery. i saw a few nice paint­ings, took some pho­tos of people walk­ing through the build­ing, and headed out.

i had another cof­fee at the lib­rary before catch­ing the bus back home.

day 227 — today was a day spent on my bum, at craig’s house, catch­ing up on blog­ging and edit­ing pho­tos from the wedding.

day 228 — i stayed home and fin­ished the work from yes­ter­day. when craig got home we did some shop­ping. when we returned we listened to the aus­tralia vs oman game — which the abc was stream­ing live online. i really hate it that all the good sport is on pay tv … i hope the government’s cur­rent re-evaluation of the guidelines res­ults in all major sport­ing events being returned to free-to-air.

day 229 — after craig fin­ished work we drove to kangaroo point for some night pho­to­graphy. craig drove and i nav­ig­ated. we got lost and ended up in the middle of the city. it’s neither of our faults, bris­bane city roads are ridicu­lous to nav­ig­ate. many of the city centre roads are one way, mean­ing cars have to go around the block (or usu­ally, 2–3 blocks) if they miss their turn.

even­tu­ally we found the right road and parked next to the bris­bane river. it was a dif­fer­ent place to where craig was hop­ing to go, but it turned out to be bet­ter. there was a bicyle and walk­ing path all the way along the river and up to the storey bridge. there was a large cliff behind us and at night it was lit up by flood­lights and climbers were work­ing their way up and down the cliff face. the climb­ing club had at least 50 people there, all climb­ing or belay­ing. it looked really cool under the flood­lights, with huge black shad­ows being thrown around everywhere.

we took some pho­tos and kept walk­ing towards the storey bridge, where we had a bet­ter view of the city over the river. we took more pho­tos, watched the river fer­ries ply back and forth, and enjoyed the great weather.

happy with our pho­tos, we headed home.

day 230 — yet another lazy day spent at home, doing noth­ing. lol

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