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 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…
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….
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…
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…
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……
I knew there was something missing from my description of the day – the Dunedin goodies. boreal and rarsberry had sent me up a box of goodies to take over to Brisbane with me, as a promotion for the NZBC convention to be held in Dunedin next February. The goodies consisted of mini Crunchie bars…
As I might have mentioned ;-), it was a very early start on Thursday to get to the airport for a 4 am check-in. As predicted, TopKat wasn’t able to come, so I was off on an adventure on my own. My bag was only 19.3 kg – I could have fitted another couple of…
It’s 3.18 am, and very shortly I’ll be heading to the airport. Why oh why did I think a 6 am flight (with 4 am check in) was a good idea??? See you after the convention!