With regret I left Sydney for Brisbane. On arrival, it was raining and the temp was around 25 degrees. It wasn't unpleasant, but the rain was a bit heavier than I had expected. My 2nd cousin Nathan, who had stayed with me 3 yrs ago in Surrey was there to meet me and guide me back to his central apartment, that he shares with his lovely partner, Wes. We laughed that Nathan had managed to even lay on English weather for me to make me feel at home, and settled down to a cuppa and catch up. A few hours later when Wes got in from work the rain seemed to be set in. We realised from the TV that rain would be a feature of the next few days as we were picking up the tail end of tropical cyclone Oswald, but there was no reaason to suspect anything extreme was about to happen.
It was so good to sleep on a soft bed that night and I slept well. (Thailand seemed to be a land full of hard, but not uncomfortable, beds). The next day Nathan escorted me into town to sort out tickets to visit my cousin Pam, which lies in the country about 260 miles away, and to show off the impressive south bank area of town. My first impression was one of an extremely efficient public transport system. South bank was the arts focus of town and home to the Queensland Library complex, which houses so many different activity and interest centres. This is where Nathan used to work, and where Troy, who also stayed at my house in 2010, still works. We had lunch with Troy and a couple of other friends. It seemed like I had known Tania for ages, and that it was only yesterday that I last saw Troy. Happy days!
The rain continued, and later that day Nathan's bro in law, Jason, picked me up on his way home from work to take me to my cousin Jane's house about half an hour away.
The rain got worse and worse, was this really The Sunshine State???
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