Brisbane (Proper Job)

When we were back home at the start of the year I managed to track down one of my old childhood friends on Facebook.  We soon had an on-line catchup and I found out that she now lives in Brisbane!  The hassles of buying a car got in the way of our plans to meet [...]

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Climbing at Kangaroo Point

So.  We’re in Brisbane.  Again.  This time though we’re not going near the airport and we already have a car and so we can just enjoy the city.  One of the main things I wanted to do was go climbing. I had tried on our previous visit to Brisbane but for one reason and another [...]

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Brisbane Take 2

Brisbane is known for being a quite, sleepy, country city. Although clearly still a city it is easy to understand why this is the case. There are lots of people but they are not rushing around like maniacs. The landscaping of the city is excellent and there are lots of areas that are very green, [...]

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Back in Oz!

We have landed in Australia again into the city of Brisbane. We did not get a chance to look around Brisbane last time so it should be good to explore it more this time. We have to get a car first! It is lovely being back in Australia. The weather is like an English summer [...]

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Day Four: Botanic Gardens, Little India, Arab Quater & the Flight to Oz

For our final day in Singapore we went to the Botanic Gardens.  We saved this ’til the last day as it was something we were really looking forward to and we thought it would be nice to spend time outdoors before another long flight.
Getting to the gardens was easy as the bus went from just [...]

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