And we were here blogging about it five days later. I am afraid to say Travel blogging is sort of annoying when you aren’t that techno savvy and it all goes to pieces. It really is in the realm now of, to blog or not to blog? Its a great way to keep in touch with whanau and friends when travelling, I love reading its pages in retrospect and in the days of travel freedom I used it all the time to remember tips and treats to pass on to those who asked. Perhaps I should take the time to learn more about how it all works I think but then I think of all the things I want to learn and and it falls well short of the top five.
Top five things to learn
- to speak Te Reo
- to bake Cindy’s lemon cake ( and it be scrumptious)
- How to plant a Japanese themed garden at the beach(not even sure if that is a good idea)
- to plank at Pilates(at least for longer than 10 seconds)
- be calm, almost zen in fact, in the face of technical travel blogging issues.
As you can see until I can remotely get down to number five then it really is a waste of time going through the motions of pretending to want to know how it works behind the scenes in the secret maze of connections and caches.
I know I have touched on this subject before and perhaps I should write a blog on the frustrations of trying to work out the technical issues of writing a blog. My frustrations (please bear in mind that “frustrations” is short for anger that far outweighs the seriousness of the situation but makes me sound less demented. ) were heightened due to the fact that it was all going to be so easy as I write my blog on my iPad and I had changed my phone so an iPhone so it would all be seamless. Yeah right.
Anyway here we are. We landed in Brisbane and I followed all my anti Covid strategies. They have a Queensland app and all restaurants and bars check it before you can sit down which is great and you quickly get used to it. Shops don’t have them though so you just wander into them but as I am not that fond of shopping that was easy to avoid.
I love Southbank in Brisbane, I think its the best city park space there is anywhere in the world. Right there in downtown you have the river, the ferry, the beach, the botanical gardens, the cafes, and the list goes on.
We wandered the park and then jumped on the free hopper ferry and hopped up the river. We sat in park on comfy loungers and watched the world go by. I am a lucky girl.
We only had a day as we were off to Coolangatta the next day so time became precious and we grabbed some electric scooters to cover more ground. The bike/scooter/pedestrian paths are amazing and unlike many other city parks and gardens you scan still have access to ride through them albeit on the wider paths.
Botanical Gardens
There are some bits like this walkway where you can’t ride and if you think you might just cheat because no one is around at that moment you can’t because your scooter just stops. It also restricts your speed to 10 kms or even 5kms when the signs depict a go slow. So all law breaking, speeding lime scooter nana’s BEWARE.
I love the way everything is used. Waterline Park sits under the maze of motorway connections and bridges above. Its a fitness park with all sorts of equipment and the space is inviting and used.
There was of course more sights and scenes. Some eating and drinking which was very delicious however I can’t now remember the name (due to the time lag of writing this not the drinking) but do remember having asian fusion at Luke Nguyen’s fat noodle and it was great.
So there you have it, not quite 48 hours in Brisbane and five days to blog about it. I am going to reach out and seek professional help before I give up and the blogging lark all together so maybe there is hope.
