Urban Brisbane

... toward making his dream come true - 4 months of freedom, nature as extreme as it gets, western (or is it eastern?) urban experiences, and a taste of some oriental cultures. Prognosis is promising, but - will the experience live up to the expectations?! ...

... day from Hugo, Its a beautiful Sunday in Brisbane, clear and warm with a slight breeze off the river. First impressions of Brisbane: immaculately clean, compact, friendly for the most part and... expensive.  A bottle of water is 3 bucks, coffee 4- ...

... nos tratar-se de uma Benidorm Australiana, ou uma "Costa del Gold", pelo que decidimos não parar e seguir directamente para Brisbane. Depois de andarmos aos círculos durante um bocado, encontrámos um parque de caravanas bastante central em Brisbane ...

... ease the urban intensity. (For examples please check out the photos!) In what now has become a tradition, we started our Brisbane experience with an impromptu walking tour that ended up taking us through the cities downtown district, botanical gardens and ...

... they came as an unpleasant shock. Having failed miserably to find somewhere worthwhile to stop, we kept getting closer and closer to Brisbane. In fact we eventually decided that we might as well get on the main motorway and get into town earlier than ...

... and a planetarium, where we attended an evening show. Galleries and particularly the south bank museum have plenty to offer as well. Brisbane is a modern busy city with some very neat places. There is a green area along the south bank and a pretty ...

... sun again….so we went to the travel agents and looked for a Whitsunday’s sailing trip before hitting the road for Brisbane. Driving via Surfers Paradise to view the extremely large houses and a swim on Mains Beach with huge surf followed by an ...

... whether or not this placement would go ahead. A bit more about the work. Sahmakum Teang Tnaut (STT) advocates for the urban poor in Phnom Penh, such as by producing reports about the effect of property development projects on the lives of those ...

... car. We took a drive up to Mt Cooltha that evening for the view of the city at sunset which was worth it I have to admit. Brisbane is a rather colourful city, even though the term 'Bris Vegas' was a sarcastic name, given to it by the other large cities as ...

... them til we get home, but we said we're definately going to visit them in Belfast. We went roller blading at Southbank in Brisbane which was hilarious! Adam & Charlotte both fell over, and we didnt go too fast, but it was fun.  We've ...

... a few nights because the hostel was so nice and I needed to sort my plans anyway. Walking around Brisbane was, in my opinon, hell. It's so hot and urban and not very pretty really! The botanic gardens were nice and the univeristy buildings were also cool ...

... our choice was to be in a plane going to LA. But wait there's more.... Not long after this the 'Courier Mail', Brisbane's local paper got hold of the story and sent a reporter and a photographer. They took lots of photos and Barb's ...

... . We also saw some tasmanian devils, wombats, possums, crocodiles, kangaroos (MASSIVE!) and a sheep dog show too! Wanted to stay in Brisbane longer because it was a city, but we've begun to realise that we don't have much time left! Next stop:  ...

... it comes to the battle of the cities, Brisbane would beat Sydney in my book if it wasn't for Sydney's amazing Bondi and Manly beaches, but what Brisbane lacks in coastline it makes up for in urban chicness around the waterways it does have:   ...

... out of the Holiday Inn and left the Gold Coast as quick as we had arrived! We continued north, circumnavigating Brisbane towards the Sunshine Coast. The Sunshine Coast stretching from Brisbane to Noosa is a more family orientated, less commercially ...

... , yet not a harried feel to it like most.  A peaceful city, and very beautiful.  The Brisbane River, found December 4th, 1823, relied on for agriculture, urban water use, industry, transport, tourism and recreation, worms its way through the heart of ...

... -stay families, my group drove north to Brisbane. Being the capital of Queensland, and housing an estimated 2 million people, Brisbane is an urban metropolis. However, our stay was not long because we were in Brisbane to catch a ferry to Moreton Island. ...

... around an artificial urban beach close to our hotel. After a considerably more pleasant night’s sleep we ventured out into Brisbane, which Cordi and I thought was a fantastic city.  A centre of commerce, vibrant and modern.  Over the next ...

... way, Brisbane seems to be a pretty nice place to live...as an example, Dennis takes a public transit catamaran up the Brisbane River to his job; ·    Seeing and listening to Kookaburras.  These large and somewhat ugly birds have a ...