And the bad news goes on…somewhere along the line we’ve managed to lose 3 of Tom’s hats, including his beloved Tilley. No, don’t laugh, I haven’t deliberately lost them and we’ve backtracked everywhere with no joy. The only theories we can possibly come up with is that they got mixed up with the throw outs we left at the Adelaide motel or that they were removed from one of our suitcases at Adelaide or Perth – we hadn’t locked them because we thought they were going to be on the train with us. Tom did comment when we collected our cases from the baggage carousel that one looked as if it had been opened. We’ll never know. We only discovered the loss when we got to our new motel this morning and Tom wanted to change hats. We even went back to the previous motel to check in case they’d missed them or put them out with the rubbish.
So that was the start of the day but it did get better, you’ll be pleased to hear.
It poured last night and again this morning – showers were forecast last night – but it brightened up and ended as quite a pleasant day. We found a great vantage point to look over the city. There’s a restaurant called “C”, which is on the 33rd floor of one of the office buildings on St George’s Terrace. There’s no advertising that we could see but the local tourist info lady told us about it. It’s a revolving restaurant but we were there for almost an hour and we hadn’t gone all the way round! Fantastic views and lovely coffee.
The dinner menu looked good too.
There are so many statues and sculptures dotted about in the city and all have a story attached.
(Australians seem to have a great interest in their history and certainly have great pride in their country and their particular state especially.) We’re still trying to find out about the plaques in the pavement (we never did have time to find the story behind those we saw in Adelaide), which are all over the place. There must be significance attached to them.
Our new (and last) motel is very nice. It’s actually separate apartments so we have lounge/kitchen and separate bedroom, and bathroom with a bath and a shower. Our apartment has French windows leading onto the swimming pool and hot tub – I don’t know whether I’ll be brave enough to try the pool out unless the temperature lifts a bit – we’ll see! The only drawback is that it is further from the city, although we’ve found that one of the free buses comes to within half a mile of it.
We’re trying to cram in as much as possible to this last 7 days – there’s plenty to do and see here so it’s not a problem. We’ll be so whacked, we’ll probably sleep all the way home!
Anyway, tomorrow is a very early start so it’s goodnight for now.
So that was the start of the day but it did get better, you’ll be pleased to hear.
It poured last night and again this morning – showers were forecast last night – but it brightened up and ended as quite a pleasant day. We found a great vantage point to look over the city. There’s a restaurant called “C”, which is on the 33rd floor of one of the office buildings on St George’s Terrace. There’s no advertising that we could see but the local tourist info lady told us about it. It’s a revolving restaurant but we were there for almost an hour and we hadn’t gone all the way round! Fantastic views and lovely coffee.
The dinner menu looked good too.There are so many statues and sculptures dotted about in the city and all have a story attached.
(Australians seem to have a great interest in their history and certainly have great pride in their country and their particular state especially.) We’re still trying to find out about the plaques in the pavement (we never did have time to find the story behind those we saw in Adelaide), which are all over the place. There must be significance attached to them.Our new (and last) motel is very nice. It’s actually separate apartments so we have lounge/kitchen and separate bedroom, and bathroom with a bath and a shower. Our apartment has French windows leading onto the swimming pool and hot tub – I don’t know whether I’ll be brave enough to try the pool out unless the temperature lifts a bit – we’ll see! The only drawback is that it is further from the city, although we’ve found that one of the free buses comes to within half a mile of it.
We’re trying to cram in as much as possible to this last 7 days – there’s plenty to do and see here so it’s not a problem. We’ll be so whacked, we’ll probably sleep all the way home!
Anyway, tomorrow is a very early start so it’s goodnight for now.
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