Sunday 7th
It was our last day in Brisbane and although we had planned
to take the car to Byron Bay the weather didn’t look like it was going to hold!
We decided to give it a miss because we are planning to come back up and travel
the coast at some point during our stay so we will definitely be going that way
when the weather is a bit nicer!
Instead we made a list of some of the markets in the area
and found 3 that were close to each other. We started with the Nundah market
that is a realtively small markets, a few fruit and veg stalls, a few bakery
and food stalls and some general stalls. We had a quick walk around but there
wasn’t much to hold us and after passing a good looking café- Jam that had some
tasty looking breakfasts going on, we headed back to the car and went to the
Eagle Farm Market which was held in Ascot. We paid $2 each to get in and it was
a good sized market with loads of different stalls! They had loads of food
stalls, veg, popcorn, bakeries, pizza, goat pie, sausage, Turkish, coffee, organic
tea, organic muesli, fresh orange juice etc!! Was a great place to have a
wander round and the weather stayed nice but it shut at 12 so everything was
beginning to wrap up, Thomas bought some ice tea (passionfruit and orange) and
we bought some bruschetta chutney which had a kick but was really tasty!
We then headed to our third market, which was the Eat Street
Markets down by the harbour. It was big!! Loads of people were there and it was
food stalls! We paid $2 again and spent ages walking round, it was so big and
everything looked so nice, people were everywhere and they had loads of eating
areas and places for people to relax and enjoy the live music. It was a great
market and had a really good atmosphere!! We saw a really popular crepe stall
that were doing a crazy Ferrero Rocher concoction for $10!! We were starving by
this time so we got some food from the gourmet fish and chip van that claimed
to have the best chips in Australia!! I had sweet potato chips and Thomas had
chips and snapper which was really good, it was a really tasty lunch and the
chips were worth the hype!! We also stopped by the popular churros van so
Thomas could restore his faith in churros- it was really good!! And watched the
endless queue for the Cronut stall that had Tim Tam flavour, Peanut Butter and
white chocolate and raspberry!
We left the market and headed over to Mount Coo-tha to have
a wander round the Botanical Gardens which the woman by the riverside had told
us was rife with lizards wandering everywhere! They were everywhere!! And they
were massive!! Seeing the massive lizards is becoming quite popular- they were
everywhere at Lone Pine too!! Beautiful though, would love dad to be here- he
would love them too!!
It started to get dark and we headed back to New Farm after
deciding that we would go and see the 5.40 showing of Predestination with our
vouchers we picked up the other day! It’s such a good cinema and the normal
price is just $11, wish there was one of them everywhere- normally you pay $19
for one ticket!! The film was good, we enjoyed it, bit trippy and made your
head hurt but was good and the cinema was a good one!
When we left it was raining but we had to go drop off the
car and then walk back to the house with the rain switching from showers to full
rain but eventually it stopped and we weren’t too soaked by the time we got
back to the house. We had to pack for our trip back to Sydney in the morning so
it was a quiet night even with the rain thundering against the windows!! When
it rains it pours in Brisbane!!
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