Tribeca Apartments Brisbane

... family (including 3 lovely but hyper children!) We had a BBQ dinner in their magnificent renovated ‘Queenslander’ house and got to know them a bit too.
Meeting relatives you haven’t seen in 20 years is really interesting – looking for family resemblances and hearing stories etc. But it’s also very tiring so we headed back to Kathryn’s as tomorrow we are meeting even more family on the Sunshine coast!

This Sunday, Klara went to a workshop held at the Gallery of Modern Art. Hiromi Tango facilitated the session over the span of a few hours, where kids (and some adults) all contributed their personal bits to a tent, which all culminated into a very temporary installation art piece, even containing live people. When Hiromi asked Klara what she'd like to make, Klara immediately began cutting ...

... of which had a suitable adaptor. It has been particularly sad seeing their looks of disappointment as they confidently lead us to their stock and we wearily tell them that we have one of those and it doesn’t fit. This is usually followed by the assistant removing the adaptor from its packaging and looking crestfallen as he realises that we, despite only being pommies, are actually correct and the query, ‘are these plugs common in England?‘ One place just looked at us and ...

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Otherwise life is good - we're catching up with friends and family and enjoying the Brissie winter (cloudless, top of early 20's everyday....). Attached are some photos from when we came into our house for the first time on our return to Oz, with Sue and Phil (L's folks).

Hope you've enjoyed the blog, but now we're home, the travels are over.

...for a little while anyway...

... SANCTUARY! This place was AWESOME! There were loads of Animals and we got to hold a Koala, Python, Crocodile, Skink and a Bluetongue Lizard.
When we first entered the park we could see a fenced-in picnic area that seemed to be out of use (or not opened yet), yet it was weird cos there was a Mummy kangaroo (with baby in pouch) sniffing around inside it. We stood there confused for a while, wondering if for some reason this picnic area was the Kangaroos cage and ...

I'm told that when you embark on a permanent move to expect, on the
morning or eve of your departure tentative and nervous feelings, either from
excitement or from several cups of coffee whilst contemplating rationalizations for unpacking the car and going back to bed. I guess I feel cheated as the second I awoke all I could think about was climbing through the window of my car (as the driver door doesn't work) and tear
to the end of my street without even a glance in the rear view ...

... Vietnamese and say goodbye to some of the party. Whilst outside we watched bemused as a long haired man/ woman in red fishnet stockings, that matched the colour of their hair, trainers and a black and white mini dress, tried to tune their guitar. A girl completely off her head, with tract marks came over to us to ask for a light and Nicole and Sarah both thought it would be a good idea to give their cameras to her to take a photo of us all. We all smiled ...

... an very young, which made a mockery of the whole ID thing really. We tried a few rooms that were very housey filled with bits of kids with no rhythm, who had half a lager and had no school tmrw. We made our way upstairs after downstairs seemed very lame. It was weird to see the two spaces mixed together as back home the gay area is very separate even though loads of straight people go there. Upstairs was just as young but the music was better so we ...

... case!! Above train tracks it warns about never crossing the track and the fines you get if you do - unlike India where it is the only method of getting across! It is such a contrast to our last few months. However it is comforting to be back in the world of fire evacuation plans etc in some ways. There are nice forest walks round here etc too and really good views of the Brisbane skyline over the river. For a city especially it is beautiful.

... tracks and park. Afterwards we walked up the South Bank, and then went for a drive to see the city sparkle to light from .... Hill. The next day was far more active as rose early and managed to find the bus to town - before any of the museums opened! We started at the Museum of Contemporary Art which was filled with amazing and amusing pieces. A definite must for anyone going there - make sure you check out the Hay Jackers! For the early afternoon we dealt with admin ...