Took the train into Brisbane today and catered for two of my hobbies:
Today's task was to pick up all the terraces North of the River apart from Cook's Terrace at Milton, too bloody far to walk, and the couple in the CBD which I have good shots of already. Walked up the Hill from Roma Street and shot the usual suspects on Petrie Terrace, but revisited a very secluded row behind there on Wellington Street.
Then I walked over to Spring Hill where surprise surprise the International Hotel brewpub beckoned the parched BribieG.
Nice basic Pilsener with clean malt and perfect tropical quencher, followed by a lovely Irish Red you could use for a traffic light - Rudy wasn't brewing today - at $4.50 a pint I sank a few. Didn't try the Geronimo (a sort of APA) or the wheat beer but I was pleased to see that a lot of the locals were quaffing out of pints of Rudy's work.
Proceeded to Union Street Spring Hill which boasts some beautifully preserved terraced workers cottages, then worked my way to Wickham Terrace where there are a couple of good examples, and round the corner in Berry Street where there is a row of fine 3 storey Victorians.
And that just happened to be 200 metres from the Platform Bar where I sank a Chris Moss APA and slept on the train back to Caboolture.
Great day out. The International is bloody excellent, I reckon we should organise a session there for Bris members if we could maybe meet centrally and take a maxi cab. If the International wasn't so hard to get to it would by my Brisbane watering hole for sure.
- drinking beer
- searching out and photographing interesting terrace houses for the site I contribute to, run by my mate in Bendigo.
Today's task was to pick up all the terraces North of the River apart from Cook's Terrace at Milton, too bloody far to walk, and the couple in the CBD which I have good shots of already. Walked up the Hill from Roma Street and shot the usual suspects on Petrie Terrace, but revisited a very secluded row behind there on Wellington Street.
Then I walked over to Spring Hill where surprise surprise the International Hotel brewpub beckoned the parched BribieG.
Nice basic Pilsener with clean malt and perfect tropical quencher, followed by a lovely Irish Red you could use for a traffic light - Rudy wasn't brewing today - at $4.50 a pint I sank a few. Didn't try the Geronimo (a sort of APA) or the wheat beer but I was pleased to see that a lot of the locals were quaffing out of pints of Rudy's work.
Proceeded to Union Street Spring Hill which boasts some beautifully preserved terraced workers cottages, then worked my way to Wickham Terrace where there are a couple of good examples, and round the corner in Berry Street where there is a row of fine 3 storey Victorians.
And that just happened to be 200 metres from the Platform Bar where I sank a Chris Moss APA and slept on the train back to Caboolture.
Great day out. The International is bloody excellent, I reckon we should organise a session there for Bris members if we could maybe meet centrally and take a maxi cab. If the International wasn't so hard to get to it would by my Brisbane watering hole for sure.