I really will get around to finishing the story of my Brisbane trip one day soon, I just haven’t had time since I got back. For some reason, I’d thought that term started two weeks after I got back, which was crucial, because I knew the first week back at work would be flat out…
My friends (both real-life and virtual are safe) are safe, but there’s a lot of people who can’t say the same 🙁 For over a year I worked in an office opposite the entrance to Liverpool Street Station, so the images on TV were doubly shocking to me – they seemed so much more real…
Servalan left early on Thursday morning to catch her train back to Sydney, but my flight wasn’t until late afternoon, so I had a day to fill on my own. I’d done pretty much all the touristy stuff Brisbane had to offer (the ones I could afford, anyway), so after wandering around town one last…
After the disappointment of the highly commercialised Australia Zoo, servalan and I decided to spend Tuesday and Wednesday on more cultural pursuits, visiting Brisbanes museums, art galleries and gardens… and releasing a few more books 😉 [album 128913 05brtues01.jpg thumblink] [album 128913 05brtues02.jpg thumblink] [album 128913 05brtues03.jpg thumblink] [album 128913 05brtues04.jpg thumblink]A few works of…
I’d come to Brisbane, I’d done a bit of research into things to do in Brisbane. The answer seemed to be “not a lot”, but one place everyone told me I had to visit was Steve Irwin’s Australia Zoo. I don’t like zoos in general, and from what I’d seen of Steve Irwin on TV,…
The convention might have been over, but my holiday certainly wasn’t – I still had another four days in Brisbane. After the lunch, servalan, lytteltonwitch and I headed out to visit some more of Brisbane’s markets, release a few more books (yes, we still had some left!) and to explore the Botanic Gardens some more….
The last day of the convention began at King George Square again. There was a market in the square where, while waiting to meet up with the other bookcrossers, I released They’re a Weird Mob by John O’Grady and found a face-painter to give me another ballycumber on my hand (it would have been more…
Ok, despite what it says on the date above, today is actually 2 January 2006, and as usual, I have left finishing telling the story of my trip to Australia far too late, so I’ve forgotten most of it (although I’ve still got my list of books I released, which helps a bit). But I’ll…
Next morning, the story of our Brazilian Hunk (who had come back in from his night out at about 5 am, just as I was waking up (this again was to become the pattern over the next few days – servalan and I decided it must be some sort of time-share scheme on the room……
More and more Bookcrossers arrived over the next hour or so, and at 5.30 pm wombles turned up to escort us on the train to Fortitude Valley, where the convention registration evening was being held.[album 128913 05brfriday1.JPG thumblink] [album 128913 05brfriday2.JPG thumblink] The registration evening was the usual mix of great people, good food, and…