Brisbane

We arrived in Brisbane early in the morning. On the one hand we were upset that our plan to go to NZ had been delayed. On the other hand, what a great opportunity to explore Australia! We booked a hostel downtown for two nights while we got our feet back under us, looked for CouchSurfers and places to explore and to got over our jetlag.

Brisbane is a pretty cool city. It has some huge (fancy) skyscrapers but also nice places to relax. Our favourite area; South Bank. It's along the river and has a big public pool, a Nepalese peace pagoda, and a large (Epicurious) community garden. A big arts festival was also set up there. A free city ferry shuttles people across and along the river, which gave us a great view. And the weather was great, 35°C and sunny.

We saw our first Ibis, which we were really excited about, until we learned that they're really common scavengers...Read more