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Weather seems quite changeable. Certainly fooled the forecasters. Shocked I tell ya. Morning looks ok for now and maybe worst weather now tomorrow afternoon. Time then for morning walk and coffee. Excellent choice of El Cafe off Commercial Road.

Fairly loose plans today and will head over to Gasworks – and hope it does 😏 – for a more substantial breakfast before heading back into CBD for more relaxed wander. A light lunch today and then a quiet afternoon before heading off for our dinner tonight. There could be some laundry involved but don’t want to get my hopes up early.

Oddly enough a suitable breakfast place was difficult to find but ended up down near Teneriffe at Caffeine Espresso. Very tasty Turkish breakfast treats and a couple of refreshing smoothies. We refused caffeine or espresso just to be contrary. Living life on the edge baby

We then caught Glider into town for a moderately successful shopping trip but by now ankle was giving grief and no tattoo parlours were open. Headed home for a relaxing afternoon with some sushi for lunch. Public transport in Brisvegas is excellent . Weather was excellent rest of day so pleasant walk up to Ros Marino after our last free drink at Kaz Bar of course 🕺🏻

We were having Degustation and it was excellent . Didn’t go with matching wines but we didn’t miss out . Service superb too of course . Thanks Rick and Jess, it only took 18 months but we got there.

Once again supposed to be raining again today but morning looks ok. A tad seedy so quite morning before heading over to Munchkin Town after checkout at 11. One last continental breakfast then. With any luck will be served by 11 am 😏. One last walk and coffee around Teneriffe while weather holds and then time to hit the road . Hopefully pick girls up from school if not raining

Smooth checkout and overall a highly recommended hotel. Quick trip to RJER to decamp for night and then head out for lunch nearby. A relaxing couple of hours then before up to school to collect girls. Then a lovely few hours with girls to tire them out so we can get them to bed early 🙌🏻 Well that was the plan. I know I was tired 👨🏻‍🦳

That reminds me, must be time to get Rubes down off roof. No wonder she has been quiet. Once again not a drop of rain.

Early start on road to Woomby on Saturday to spend relaxing day with family. First up was to watch Ryan go through some basketball drills . I wore thongs to give him a chance . Organised chaos maybe best explains young kids all shooting at same time.

We then travelled 100 m down road for a late breakfast and coffee at Urban Grounds and Tony joined so good chance to have a chat . Then we walked across road to some more beautiful gardens as weather had cleared nicely. Toowoomba has always been a beautiful city.

Unfortunately kids soccer was off due to overnight rain so we all headed over to Tonys for lunch. But first was the Pictionary Playoff to decide washing up duties . Great fun. Plates go in which cupboard then ?

Rest of family then arrived for a lovely BBQ lunch and some more hoops . The food may have slowed me down . For letting them win they had to pose for a photo so were thrilled of course.

Time then to check into our hotel for a relaxing few hours before dinner on site in restaurant. It’s a great room but as feared does seem a bit close to range Highway. Hopefully noise settles a bit at night. To be fair it is all double glazed but am sensitive to noise. No I’m not .

Perfectly acceptable meal at hotel restaurant and a short walk home. Basic Counter Meal fare even if they think they are a bit fancy

Sleep was ok, enough that not a zombie today but wouldn’t really recommend this particular room noise wise. Off for breakfast then with a 15 min stroll to Cafe 63 and then one last quick visit with Tony and family before heading down the range to Burbank, not California , for lunch. Coolish morning of course with once again threat of rain later . Filling breakfast and then headed over to Tony’s for one last visit . Good run down had us ready to hook in. So we did

Good run home to Flashman Inc as the sun sets on a great week. Just leaves drill baby drill tomorrow to look forward to and then straight home to Maryhole.

Autumn is a pleasant time in Qld as temps start to drop but not very quickly! Of course constant rain on and off doesnt help. Big birthday coming up for Claude (95) this year so thought we would spend a few days in Brisvegas around a couple of birthday events and also squeeze in a day trip and overnight stay in Toowoomba to catch up with some of six pack. Seems like about 17 birthdays in Ferguson family in May so great to catch up. General plan than is down to Brisvegas on Tuesday and stay at Ovolo in The Valley for 3 nights . Have lunch with birthday boy on Wednesday and then some Munchkin Minding on Friday night before out to Toowoomba for Saturday. Then it’s back to Burbank, not California, for family lunch on Sunday. Icing on the cake then will be Dental visit on Monday:)

Down mid morning on Tuesday and room ready at Ovolo in The Valley. Knobber Knobber. Trying something a bit different this time to usual CBD. First impressions are good. Quiet in a good location. Simple but spacious room. Again no drawers for clothes !

Weather still holding so out for a reconnoiter and some lunch. Plenty of options close by but opted for Sushi and Technology. Love the little robot servers and no tariffs yet.

We also receive a couple of free drinks each night in bar so this afternoon plan will revolve around that. Just have to shake CLP so I can have both – ooh look honey, a scrapbook emporium 🤓. Much like free “continental” breakfast each day – give it a go eh. Plenty of coffee places nearby of course as well.

Good walk around Teneriffe this afternoon before hooking into our free drinks at Kaz Bar adjacent. Then we started the Italian theme this week at Tartufu next door and it was excellent. Figs in Prosciutto, Pizza and Tearifimissu. Separate plates for each would have been smart in hindsight. A couple of Italian reds to wash it down of course.

Good effort for first day . Time for some sleep before a full day tomorrow with La Famiglia. See, Italian theme.

Not great nights sleep but certainly a quiet room at this stage. As weather still holding off time for morning constitutional. Nah, nothing….ok let’s go for a walk 😏Its a great area to walk around and plenty of coffee shops to choose from so after walking for 30 mins we settled on the one next to our hotel serving Campos coffee.🕺🏻 Tasted more like Compost, a different option tomorrow looms. More of a walk and then into our free continental breakfast. When we walked into Tartufu last night we knew service would be excellent and we were correctum. Walking into on site breakfast room just knew exact opposite and were right again. Our clown waiter seems to struggle with concept of our included breakfast deal . Eventually it clicked in and then we waited at least 20 mins for chef to open packet. There were only 8 people in the restaurant and 4 of them were staff. I did see our breakfast ready to be delivered for at least 5 mins but again nothing. Eventually came out and it was fine for the deal. We probably won’t come back. As about to leave two more diners came in , keeping total number at 8 😏 Waitress arrived with menus and said there was “a 20 min wait on food “ 🤦🏻‍♂️

The deal here is great though through Qantas Hotels. It was $330 pn – cheap for Brisvegas trust me – and included daily breakfast and two drinks free, roughly $70 per day free.

Head into town then around 9 am for a little light shopping and then onto Claude’s for lunch. Expecting Italian people and food this time. Forgot how long the river cat takes to get to North Quay so by time we got there basically walked down town to Central and on train to Claude’s. Did pass under the new Kangaroo Point Green Bridge while looking at Bluey on a Gray day. Spooky .

Lovely lunch at Claude’s with some Italian food , a few beers and some red stuff. Must be time for a lie down but probably should go back to hotel first.

Still no rain to speak of so a couple of quite hours before heading out to Wild Legs and back on Wobbly Legs. It’s a local new wine bar which tickled our fancy on our wander yesterday . But was closed Tuesdays…

Bit of a disappointment to be fair. Tables are small and “ wine by the glass “ options – its main advertised feature – limited. The Chacuterie board was fine but small. We only had one glass and then headed back to Kaz Bar for our freebie. Light rain had started and so we danced home under our twirling umbrellas.

And so the first two jam packed days conclude. Main highlight tomorrow is a fancy schmancy dinner at Ros Marino Ristorante courtesy of RJER. Don’t mean they are cooking it but we are using their gift voucher at last !