| Author | Message | ||
     kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1450 Registered: 05-2005 |
Well you know that the trip of a lifetime is approaching when Emirates airlines tell you they want £3,700 pounds by the end of month - ouch! The plan is me,wife and 2 kids fly to Brisbane at the end of July, spend 3 days there with the wifes brother and mrs, then fly to their hometown of Cairns for the remainining 2 and a 1/2 weeks. Christ this country is big, Brisbane to Cairns is 1,750 km, which is further than the tip of Scotland to London. Padraig, nearer the time you can fill me in on Go-Bs tourist attractions in Brisbane, Ricks will definately be getting a visit of course. is there anything going on in Brisbane at that time of year, or elsewhere in Queensland, that you can recommend? | ||
| David Matheson Member Username: David_matheson Post Number: 119 Registered: 12-2004 |
In Cairns you can walk along Shield Street and Sheridan Street. | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 93 Registered: 04-2005 |
I'm very jealous, thinking back it must be about seven years since Oz has had the honour.....Something that needs correcting, maybe for the Rugby League World Cup! Cheers Jon | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1312 Registered: 05-2005 |
Got to get to Rocking Horse records in Brisbane Kevin. Cape Tribulation is about three hours north of Cairns Kevin and is well worth seeing. It is tropical rain forsest and was the most peaceful place I'd ever been to when I was there in 1992. I hope it is still like that. Stay a night or two there if you can. More as I think of it. | ||
| Paul B. Member Username: Paul_b Post Number: 20 Registered: 10-2004 |
Kevin, what 3 days will you be in Brisbane? | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1453 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cheers Padraig. Not sure of dates Paul, I think we fly to Australia on the 28th or 29th of July. Thats the wifes dept  | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 26 Registered: 02-2007 |
I'll have a beer with you at Ric's in the Valley, if you wanna good night of live music etc. Let us know when u have the dates, if u want Kevin? | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1454 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sure David, I will make a point of being in Rics at some point so that sounds great | ||
| abigail law Member Username: Abigail Post Number: 114 Registered: 06-2005 |
take a four wheel drive along the beach up to double island point and catch the ferry over to fraser island. fantastic. watch out for the tide though. | ||
| fsh Member Username: Fsh Post Number: 97 Registered: 05-2005 |
There could be a line from a song there, Abigail? | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 207 Registered: 01-2006 |
Cape Tribulation and Daintree National Park are absolutely stunning Kevin, I wouldn't spend too much time in Cairns, not a lot to do. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1457 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks Abigail and XY. Cairns will be our base cos thats where the relatives stay. Believe me there might not be a lot to do XY,but when you stay in Central Scotland like I do it will be paradise on earth. Hopefully we will do a lot of touring about though | ||
| Donat Member Username: Donat Post Number: 253 Registered: 11-2004 |
Just walk the streets and smell the grass coming out of the homes as you pass | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1724 Registered: 03-2006 |
Do they like the herb in Cairns? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1084 Registered: 03-2005 |
I'll bet Cairns is too right wing. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1463 Registered: 05-2005 |
My brother in law has been known to indulge in some herb before he emigrated to Cairns - dont imagine much has changed | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 209 Registered: 01-2006 |
I remember a friend in New Zealand used to throw some seeds into the tomato patch and everyday you'd see they had grown bigger....the sooner global warming hits Ireland the better... | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1085 Registered: 03-2005 |
Sigh. You people are making me so jealous. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 537 Registered: 01-2005 |
I saw Peter Tosh in concert about 22 years ago. The PA guy said something like "Alright everybody get up off your seats, light up your spliffs and welcome all the way from Kingstown, Jamaica, Peter Tosh". Peter walked on stage with sunglasses on, a cane in one hand and the biggest spliff I had ever seen in the other. One of the greatest entrances I have ever witnessed. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1730 Registered: 03-2006 |
I might have taken the bit about the smell of grass coming out of homes the wrong way... You can definitely smell it coming out of homes and cars here, but not mine - too expensive here... | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 210 Registered: 01-2006 |
There’s a chain of Pizzerias in Cambodia called ‘Happy Herb Pizzas’. I ate in one a few years ago and while the place is not in-your-face about it they do ask ‘do you want that happy?’ while they take down your order. I asked for a medium ‘happy’ pizza as I wasn’t sure of the strength. I went home a happy customer needless to say…! | ||
| Wolfgang Steinhardt Member Username: Berbatov Post Number: 57 Registered: 09-2006 |
I can imagine XY, I invited a cambodian student from Prague some years ago and he should do the cooking. He showed up with two chickens and a handful of herbs, put it together in a pan and an hour after dinner I fell from my chair and ended up hysterical laughing... He was a happy chick then, cause at home his Mama didn't allow "spice" with the poulet... But that's a Brisbane thread: take the CityCat and listen to Streets of Your Town on you're i-pod, Kevin. Not very spectacular, just essential... | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1308 Registered: 04-2005 |
Umm...I don't think that's the right song to suggest to Kevin! | ||
| Wolfgang Steinhardt Member Username: Berbatov Post Number: 58 Registered: 09-2006 |
...ooops, I did it again: ok, Kurt: he should try My Ding-A-Ling, fits perfectly to Brisbane as well... (just a suggestion to avoid trouble with you guys...) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1324 Registered: 05-2005 |
The CityCat to New Farm is a lovely trip. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1467 Registered: 05-2005 |
Give me Streets of Your Town over My Ding A Ling any day Actually maybe its time to clarify things here, I dont hate 16LL really. Its just that it was, along with late 80s REM records, amongst my most anticipated album releases ever. I was let down badly in both cases, the GO-Bs because I felt they blanded out looking for the big breakthrough album, and REM because they pandered to the stadium crowd. The songs are brilliant on 16LL, I just dont like the way some of them sound. By most other bands it would probably be a career best |