It seems they don't celebrate St. Patty's Day in Australia with quite the fervor that I was used to in the US, but nonetheless, the few Irish bars in downtown Brisbane were still packed full of people decked out in green, with ridiculously long waits to get inside the entire day. Elsewhere in the city, however, hardly anyone was wearing green and you'd be hard pressed to figure out it was anything but a typical saturday. There was a Scottish guy in my room who seemed friendly and he was nice enough to invite me to join him and his other Scottish friend for the day as they celebrated. So we had some drinks on the roof of the hostel before heading out to craziness at the nearby Irish pubs. Here's a view from the roof of the hostel, pretty nice spot:
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| From Australia - Yamba, Byron Bay, Surfers Paradise, Brisbane & Noosa |
Then we proceeded out to downtown Brisbane, bouncing around to a couple of Irish bars. I kind of forgot I had my camera and didn't get many pictures, but here's one of me and the Scottish guys as we waited in line outside one of the pubs we visited.
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| From Australia - Yamba, Byron Bay, Surfers Paradise, Brisbane & Noosa |
Day 56 - Sunday, March 18
I met two really cool Brisbanites (Brisbanians?) at my first stop in Fiji, and I was fortunate enough to have one of them, Nancy, show me around a bit, despite her crazy schedule. We met a friend of hers and had some drinks at a pretty cool spot on the river in an area of town called Teneriffe, that was quite nice and less touristy than elsewhere in the city I'd been. As in Melbourne, having someone who lived there to hang out with was really great alternative to the typical touristy stuff. After a few drinks, we checked out the city from Kangaroo Point, which was pretty awesome:
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| From Australia - Yamba, Byron Bay, Surfers Paradise, Brisbane & Noosa |
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