Brisbane River Festival 2004

If you're wandering down by the Brisbane River this Sunday afternoon towards West End you'll no doubt see the more than 20,000 rubber duckies battling it out for victory as part of the

Heavy Rain

Fun Run ain't so fun

Yesterday was the Bridge to Brisbane fun run for Paul, Ging and I, although as EB suggested, it wasn't all fun ...

Bridge to Brisbane

On Sunday morning I will be joining thousands of other people jamming one lane of Brisbane's Gateway Bridge as we make our way to New Farm Park. No, it's not protest march lamenting the demise of Friends. It's the annual < ...

Just call me Blofeld

Feeling very James Bond villain at the moment. Here's why Edited: 27-7-04 ...

Domestic Duties

Spent a very quiet weekend taking care of a few things that I'd neglected over the past couple of months' worth of weekends. On Saturday I dropped by my brother's house and helped him set up some shelves for his growing home brew ...

Tibetan Kitchen

Not knowing much about Tibetan and Nepalese cuisine, I was pleasantly surprised by my visit to the Tibetan Kitchen in Fortitude Valley last night. I don't really know what I was expecting, but perhaps something to do with yaks and ...

Lawn Bowls by the Brisbane River

If you're looking for something to do that's a little different, but still plenty of fun, I can highly recommend an afternoon of Lawn Bowls at the Merthyr Bowls Club in New Farm. The Ging had bowled before, but I was a newbie - ...

Look, up in the sky!

Did anyone else in the Brisbane region see a fireball streaking across the sky during the early hours (we're talking 5-ish) of Sunday morning? I won't go into the details of how I happened to still be awake from the night before, ...

Brisbane, Queensland

Brissie is a capital that enjoys its location. Directly above the rockin Gold Coast, and below the beauty of the Great Barrier Reef, the city is a popular host for in-transit tourists, both foreign and Australian. However, those ...

Touch Footy Champs

Last night was the grand final of the mixed touch footy competition I've been playing in to keep myself fit. My team, "Touch Us If You Can", is a team loosely held together by people who know people who know people. The only perso ...

The Belgian Beer Café ~ Brussels

Belgium is famous for a few things, chocolate and strong beer being the two most relevant to me. My parents had told me about this Belgian beer cafe in downtown Brisbane and ...

Another 'credit' to Brisbane's al fresco lifestyle

Movies on a boat on the Brisbane River! There's some good lookin' films on the menu too! Cine Ging

Brisbane Weather

Two weeks ago, it was the hottest day in February ever. Today, we're getting a Severe Weather Warning with a chance of a c ...

The Chill Bar - Brisbane

With temperatures in Brisbane supposed to hit 38° Celcius (100°F) by Friday, folks are looking for ways to beat the heat. As my train was leaving Roma Street station the other day, I spied a poster advertising the

Food Markets at New Farm Park, Brisbane

5:20 seems awful early to be getting up on a Saturday morning (how long since I've been a paperboy?), but that's what I did to go to the food markets at New Farm Park.

Boost to Queensland Tourism

Qantas to fly non-stop between Brisbane, Los Angeles This will be a great benefit for QLD tourism if Qantas can keep the price down and maybe a few more ba ...

More ISP Shenanigans

After the last problem I had with Telstra's provision of BigPond cable internet access, things have been pretty good. Today though, I woke up and there was no juice. ...