Brisbane

Buying the Christmas Beers in Australia

21 December 2011 Life in Australia

I think most of you must know by now that I love Australia. I live in Brisbane, and I love Brisbane too. Regular readers will also have noticed that I love beer, not lager type beer, but bitter. Imagine my delight then, when I was doing beer shopping for Christmas, to see a new brew [...]

Australia: One Extreme to Another

18 November 2011 Australian Climate

If it doesn’t rain by tomorrow morning, and it’s your not looking like it’s going to, Brisbane will have recorded its driest start to November on record. The record it will beat is 18 days without rain in November of 1915. Apparently it was also quite dry back in 1842, but as Weather Channel meteorologist [...]

Holiday Prices Compared Between Australia and the UK

26 October 2011 Cost of Living - Australia

As you know, I’m currently BobinThailand. Me, my wife and my daughter are hopefully having a good time. Actually, it’s not just the three of us either; we are with a rather large gang. I haven’t rounded everyone up and tagged them yet, but at a guess we are about 20 or so adults with [...]

Parking in Australia. Not So Free Anymore?

10 October 2011 Life in Australia

It was a long time ago, over 2 1/2 years in fact, when I last spoke about parking in Australia. If you live in a town or area where finding a parking space where YOU want to park is difficult, you might like to go back and read that post. In it, I explain a [...]

It Was a Hot Day

27 July 2011 Australian Climate

It is a little ironic that today’s reprint of my article for Australia and New Zealand magazine is called “It Was a Hot Day”. As you probably know, only a couple of weeks ago I was experiencing some “Very Cold Days” whilst holidaying in Tasmania. But as I write these articles a few months in [...]

City Entertainment for a Wintry Brisbane

20 June 2011 Entertainment Australia

As we head into the depths of winter here in Australia, it’s strange that the weathermen have recently declared ‘sunny with clear blue skies’ as, once again, the default weather for the foreseeable future in Brisbane. Strange for me, that is. Being from England I’m used to winters being wetter than summers. Not so for [...]

A Barbeque on an Australian Mountain

9 May 2011 Entertainment Australia

Here in Australia, yesterday was Mother’s Day. Now I know it wasn’t Mother’s Day in the UK, but I can assure you it was Mother’s Day in most other places around the world. But then you probably know that from reading my post about Mother’s Day from a couple of years ago. So Mrs BobinOz [...]

An Action Packed Exciting Weekend Here in Queensland

21 March 2011 Life in Australia

It’s been an exciting weekend here in Queensland with lots going on. Firstly, the moon was bigger and closer to Earth than it’s been for 18 years. What a glorious view………. Well, it would have been had it not been cloudy. Here, in Brisbane, we couldn’t see a thing. No sign of the moon whatsoever. [...]