South Bank Parklands

What I Missed in Australia

4 November 2011 Entertainment Australia

The Queen. Of course, as I was out of the country, the Queen was in it. She was on her 16th visit to Australia. I’m sure both here in Australia and back in the UK, the news has been full of stories about her tour. So I am going to zoom forward to her very [...]

Whale Watching With The Lucky People

23 September 2011 Entertainment Australia

It’s been an absolutely glorious week here in Brisbane, a great start to the spring school holidays. If this were England, we’d be talking about a summer heatwave. It’s not. It’s Australia. And it’s still only early spring. On Monday, as you know, Elizabeth went to Redcliffe with her mummy and some of her friends [...]

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 [...]

When Ibis Attack!

19 November 2010 Australia's Bad Things

I received an email from a reader the other week, she was visiting Brisbane for one day and wanted to know the best places to visit. Among my suggestions were South Bank Parklands and the Cultural Centre, and she certainly took me up on that idea. I know because she sent me a photograph of [...]

Australian Good Things: Outdoorfests!

24 February 2010 Entertainment Australia

How to watch 16 innovative and exciting new films in less time than it takes to watch Waterworld, or….. What did I do last Sunday? Last year I watched it on television. This year I decided to go. I had a choice of venues; Sydney – 926 km, Melbourne – 1,691 km, Canberra, 1,204 km, [...]

Brisbane Is Not on the Beach, But……

15 February 2010 Australia's Places

… it doesn’t do bad for sun, sea and sand. I’ve been meaning to write a post about the South Bank Parklands for some time now, but for some reason I never seemed to get around to it. Until today. I showed you a glimpse of the Parklands a few weeks ago but felt it [...]

Why It Is Inappropriate to Write About Life in Australia Today.

11 January 2010 Australian Climate

Regular readers will know that, more often than not, my post on Monday is about what we did at the weekend. But today, I’m finding it difficult to bring myself to do that. Why? As you will know, I used to live in Europe, England to be precise, and I still have friends back there, [...]

Riverfire, The Brisbane Festival and Dump and Burn

14 September 2009 Entertainment Australia

I have said before that what I love about living in Australia is that there always seems to be something to do and it’s always something different. Previously on BobinOz we have given you the opportunity to go on the last ever chair lift at the Ekka Festival, we have also taken you to the [...]