If you’ve been following my Brisbane holiday blogs, you’d know we caught a few buses.. Brisbane once had a big tram network.They were all replaced by buses in the 1960s. By 1988 they’d built the CBD ...

Unfortunately pestering people works. Same reason business websites annoy us with pop-ups and creepy emails. But many charities are pretty conscientious in how they manage their donor lists – there is ...

Once the Metro tunnel opens, the Frankston line will via the Loop… but they’re not doing that for the 21st. They are running extra Frankston line services to cope with the Cran/Pak loads, though ...

Monday morning, and sadly time to head home from Brisbane. At home in Victoria it was Kings Birthday (still doesn’t sound quite right), but in Queensland they have that later in the year, so it was a ...

From there we headed north via 333 bus to Lutwyche, to visit the family plot in the cemetery there. Then we walked south to Stafford, around where our Uncle Frank used to live.It’s not far as the crow ...

Exploring. Anyway I walked across Victoria Bridge into the CBD, and explored, taking in the main pedestrianised mall in Queen Street. I walked alongside the separated bike lanes in Edward Street – ...

Sure enough, waiting for my luggage took a bit longer than expected. Hmm, carry-on only is looking better and better. But there was an unexpected upside to this – we ran into my old school friend ...

A few photos from inside Arden station last week… it’s basically complete, now occupied by Metro as they get ready for the Metro tunnel opening. The main entrance is at street level, about 10 minutes ...