New Farm

 

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New Farm is an inner city suburb of Brisbane. We stayed at an AirBnB here when we returned from Perth. We have a favorite long stay place on Gregory Terrace in Springhill where we like to stay when in Brisbane but they weren't available for this visit.

Our AirBnB was on Merthyr Road in the same block as the Coles shopping mall — in Australia Coles and Woolworths are super market chains. Our apartment was on the second floor with lots of balconies to enjoy the fine weather. One evening we got to see some rather large possums munching on the leaves of the schefflera trees just outside our balcony.

The apartment had a nice sized bedroom, a sitting/living room, a tiny kitchen and an awkward bath. But it was our home for the duration of our stay. At the end of our visit we went to Lady Elliot Island for several days and then home.

There's a nice neighbor hood shopping district nearby (Coles, Post Office, several liquor stores), there's the New Farm Park with the Powerhouse Station where we say Eric Bogle. The neighborhood is bracketed on three sides by the Brisbane river and Fortitude Valley to the north. Across the river to the west is Kangaroo Point with the Story Bridge over the Howard Smith Wharves to Fortitude Valley.

The photo album shows our apartment, shops in the area (you can buy Kangaroo meat at Cole), some of my walk through New Farm Park and along the river towards Tennerife. There's some photos of friends and colleagues — Ross and Bev of course, but also our friend Susan who was pleased we reached out to see her again.

The pictures of "#Dreambig" (at a New Farm sports injury clinic), Queensland X-ray and Kate on crutches at the apartment near the end of the album are about Kate's tragic slip and fall where she twisted her ankle badly at the end of our stay. That didn't stop us from going to Lady Elliot Island — it might have stopped others but not Kate!