Attractions Living

Purple Rains at summer@UQ Lakes

Jacarandas

There is a kind of beautiful purple tree in Brisbane. That calls Jacarandas, Moreover, during these few weeks, that is the full bloom of the purple flowers from Jacarandas. It got an interesting name, “Exam flower”. It got full bloom during the exam period of university. In addition, this kind of tree is common in Brisbane, you can see a lot of purple tree along the roads or in parks such as New Farm and Botanic Garden. For me, I like to go to UQ Lakes at University of Queensland St. Lucia Campus.
Last Saturday, I went to there for watching this Purple Rain. That was quite magnificent. There is a corridor near the bus station, both sides along the pathway have Jacarandas. I felt like in Japan, the sky turned to purple. That was so nice. I recommend that is a family activity.

Jacarandas

UQ Lakes got a large grassland. Your family can have a picnic in there and enjoy the scene of purple rain. Lastly, the car park near UQ Lakes are free to park during Saturday and Sunday. Please do not miss that.

Jacarandas

 


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Events

2015 Grand Central Floral Parade

2015 Grand Central Floral Parade

I have been Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers a number of times. However, this year, that was the first times to attend the 2015 Grand Central Floral Parade. There were a number of local groups are involved, such local radio station, shops and charity groups. I think there were more than 20 floats taken part.  A number of people watched the parade.  A few rows of people packed along the parade route. We arrived quite late, so we were at the back. That was the reason we cannot see the parade very clearly. At the end, we were only in there for 30 minutes.

2015 Grand Central Floral Parade

Although we were not enjoy the parade, there were many good things to do. For example, we had a quick walk in Queens Park. There were many flowers.

Queens ParkAlso, we had a short stay in USQ Japanese Garden too. This garden is beautiful. I felt like I was in Japan.

USQ

Picnic Point Toowoomba,

Lastly, we had a stop-over in picnic point. The view in there were good!

 

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Food

Spanish Like Bun@Parkland

Spanish Like Bun

Last week, I had a new kind of Bun in Parkland restaurant. They were quite tasty. Outside looks like a spanish style bun, inside has BBQ pork. I love it, you can try it when you go to Parkland for a yum cha.

Address
Shop 38
Sunny Park Shopping Centre
Cnr Mains Road and McCullough Street
Sunnybank
Qld 4109

Tel: 07-3345 4588

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Living

Highfresh Supermarket Reopened

Highfresh Supermarket

Highfresh supermarket is one of major chinese grocery stores in Sunnybank area, but it has been closed for renovation before. Today, I was in Market Square. I found they reopened. Of course I entered this store for “inspections”.  That is good, the owner really did a good job, the store has a new interior! The interior is modernized, more similar with CitySuper.  I love it.

Highfresh Supermarket

315-317 mains road
Sunnybank,
07- 3219 5388

 

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Events

RiverFire 2015

RiverFire

Tomorrow, Brisbane Festival will be officially ended. RiverFire will conclude this festival. There will start at 7pm. Moreover, a5 5.15pm, Southbank will have some air display from Australian Royal Airforce. You can see F18, C17, Aviation MRH 90 and Tiger Helicopters. You should not miss that!

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Events

Brisbane Festival@Southbank

Brisbane Festival@Southbank

Last week, I went southbank culture forecourt. I entered the main venue of Brisbane Festival,Arcadia.  That sounds much larger than past years.  There are a few giant tents. The largest one is a bar.

JpegIf you like to drink some beers, that is a good choice, you can enjoy the beers and views of Brisbane River at the same time. However, because there is a bar. You need to provide some identity documents to prove you are over 18. That is a bit annoying to me.

If you don’t like to have a drink, there are some food trucks, you can have some burgers or curry.

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If you don’t want to have a drink and get somethings to eat, there are some entertainments too.  You can buy a ticket to watch  Club Swizzle or Fear and Deligh at a small theater in Arcadia. Or attending a free event at QPAC, there are some live brands in front of QPAC.

JpegIf you want somethings quiet, there are some 3D chalks painting.

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Lastly, Brisbane Festival will be end soon, the events will be ended officially on 26th September. Also, at that date, RiverFire will  ignites the skyline.

 

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Events

Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers 2015

Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers 2015 started yesterday. As usual, there is a lot of flowers in Queens Park and USQ Japanese Garden. In addition, those family won The Chronicle Garden Competition. They opens their winning home gardens to the public.

Also, Their grand central floral parade will be held this afternoon 3pm. There were a lot of floral floats and street performers. You should not miss that!
Date :
21/9/2012-30/9/2012

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Events

Brisbane Festival 2015

wpid-20140927_190511.jpgFrom tomorrow to 26th September, that will be the period of Brisbane Festival 2015.In their 15 venues, there will be more 200 sessions of performances.  Also, the organizer built a temporary festival village calls arcadia, where has bar & restaurant, food trucks and two performance tents. There will be two shows,  Club Swizzle and Fear and Delight. Even on the surface of arcadia, that is also a part of Brisbane festival. That is Brisbane Airport 3D chalk which is a 3D chalk street painting. That is intersting

Lastly, on 26th September 7pm, at Brisbane river, there will be a firework show to celebrate the end of this year Brisbane Festival. I think you should not miss that.

For further details of programs, please visit Brisbane Festival website.

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Food

$5 Chicken Katsu Curry @ Mr. Curry

Mr. Curry

Last week, I was in City for work. Previously, I heard about Mr. Curry has a deal value. I wish to try that for long time. Well, that was a good opportunity to do that.

This special is only valid until noon every day. The Chicken Katsu Curry costs only $5 before 12 pm! I was in there at 11.50 am. That was close and I found there were a few people lining up! Luckily, the staff made that curry rice in a very effective manner, like a factory line! I only waited less than 5 minutes, then I had this lunch box.

$5 Chicken Katsu Curry @ Mr. Curry

 

For $5 only, that was  a good deal. The lunch box had some salad, rice and some deep fry chicken pieces. I only found the sauces was not enough. Apart from that, I cannot complain anything at all!  The size of lunch box was not too small at all, that was enough for me as a lunch!

That is not bad, I will recommend that to you!

Address:
Shop 10, Postoffice Square, 270 Queen Street, Brisbane, QLD 4000

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Attractions Travel

Cairns Day 1: Skyrail

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I and my wife went to Cairns for holidays last week. We took a very early flight from Brisbane, that was 7am. We arrived at 9.30am. That sounds a bit late for a full day tour and that was tired. We woke up at 3.30am.  We chose to take a ride on Skyrail, which is somethings easy.

Skyrail is a cable over the rainforest from Freshwater Cairns to Kuranda. The total length is about 7.5km. You can enjoy the magnificent view of rainforest and Barron Falls.

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Also, during the cable trip, there are two stops, Red Peak station and Barron Falls Station.

At Red Peak Station,  there is a free eco-tour to rainforest. The tutor gave a brief introduction about this rainforest to us.  That was quite informative.

 

Red Peak Rainforest

 

The second stop is Barron Falls Station,  There are a walk trail in there and a few lookouts which can see Barron Falls.

That is quite nice!

 

Barron Falls

 

During this trip, we had a cable car journey and a bit of bush walking too.

Lastly, if you stay in a hotel at Carins City, Skyrail can organize a pick up service.

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