Cairns: On the Mend

Woke up to more rain this morning! The wet season still has a month to go, so the rain is not surprising. The good news is that for at least part of the day, the temps were especially comfy. Until the sun made an appearance and the heat and humidity rose after noon.

I’m on the upswing. In fact, I felt good enough to keep my haircut and mani/pedi appointments this morning. The hairdresser with whom I made an appointment was a young woman from Türkiye; trained in Germany where she was born. She did an excellent job with the haircut … which should last me until we get home on 1 May.

Afterwards, we walked over to the Esplanade to get a bite to eat. Contrary to what we were told about restaurants over Easter weekend, there were plenty of places to choose from … though some are not open until dinner service.

We ended up at Splash … a seafood restaurant. It’s more expensive than some of the other restaurants in Cairns, but the food, we felt, is better than many places in the city … and compared well with our meals at Perrotta’s & Pist4cchi.

Instead of ordering an Uber, we walked back to the hotel for a quiet afternoon … and to prep for moving on to Darwin tomorrow.Leggi altro