Brisbane City

My sister Anne and her husband Graham really got "the rough end of the pineapple" as we say in my country.  They visited us in the UK last year for the Olympics and so we got to spend lots of time together.  The consequence of this was we only gave them one night and they had to come to the city, which is over an hours drive from their house.  Their instructions to us were that they would take care of everything and boy did they.

We had a two bedroom apartment on the 31st floor in the centre of Brisbane city.  It came complete with balcony which gave us glorious views over the city and a great place to drink champagne whilst watching the afternoon thunder / lightening storm.  A bonus for me (and my female readers will understand) was that I got to wash our underwear! 

We had a lovely lunch at Southbank which has the city Beach - I know, amazing right.  And having watched the storm come and go, we headed out on the City Cat (aka river bus) to go for dinner.  We ate at the Watt restaurant and bar and the food was fabulous.  We even had a possum and its baby walk through the open air restaurant but we were all so surprised there's no photographic evidence! 

We really can't thank them enough for their forethought and planning skills (though I suspect Anne is flying on Grahams coat tails).  And so it was a sad farewell to the last of our hosts with only one more treat in store....