Our Gold Coast trip was really short and we didn't have much free time between meeting up with relatives, so the only "free time" was a lunch cruise along some of the many canals that thread through the GC. The islands in the canals contain some of the most expensive properties in Australia, you can find images of some of them on posts of our earlier visits. The most noticeable thing since our last trip is the increasing number of really high buildings. Lunch cruises with Mum are fun. She gets excited by the buildings and really hyper when prawns are on the menu. Mum tells me that the best prawns in the world are fresh Gold Coast king prawns and she should know as she has eaten lots of prawns (shrimps to our friends in the USA) in countries around the world. Of course, I have to take her word for it because I can't eat anything at all and Dad is allergic to all shellfish. On our flight back to Canberra we flew close to Lake George and it is now almost completely full.
Labels: Gold Coast
One of the things that I love about travel is the chance to try all sorts of cocktails. Now that I am over 18, I can try the lot. Here's a few from the Gold Coast. At the Garden bar there is a sign that sums my way with the Oldies. It reads "Ready to be led down the garden path?". I do try to lead them there. Anyhow, the cocktails here were OK, but not quite up to the standard I had in Hawaii. The second row is from the Palazzo Versache. Here the cocktail list is much larger and small bears may take some time to make up their mind. The drinks are in fact well up to standard, and the nibbles that come with them are fine. As our GC trip was very short, I wasn't able to sample other establishments' ideas of the best cocktail.
