Playing tourist

I played tourist today.

I live five minutes away from the city of Brisbane by road but this being a lazy Sunday I thought I’d take the City Cat and travel to the city by river.  City Cat’s run up and down the Brisbane river and it’s a lovely way to travel.

City Cat heading down stream on Brisbane river

Here’s a close up of the Cat as it pulls in ready to take me into the city.

My City Cat arrives

I didn’t time the journey but it was probably about twenty minutes as the river meanders around the New Farm peninsula. I alighted in the city centre (how handy is that!) and made a visit to the city library where I loaded myself up with magazines and DVD’s.

Time for a coffee at the Shingle Inn where I took advantage of one of their comfortable armchairs overlooking Brisbane Square then a stroll along the mall where I came upon these dancers. They were terrific and a good crowd soon gathered, all the iphones were whipped out as folk started snapping away.

Further down the mall the Queensland Wind and Brass Band had drawn a crowd.

Queensland Wind and Brass Band

There was another reason for visiting the city. No tourist should be without a decent camera and I had decided to check them out.  And here it is. Watch out for amazing photographs – just gotta get that instruction book out ……

My new toy

It was a lovely way to spend the day. It’s easy to take our home patch for granted, sometimes it’s just good to get out there and do the ‘tourist’ thing.