Saturday 10th December 2005 - Brisbane By Day

Day One: 10th December 2005 Arrive into Brisbane

You'll arrive into Brisbane International Airport at around 21:45 on flight BI 71. I will have already collected your 4WD and will be at Brisbane International Airport and ready to transfer you to your accommodation at the Medina Executive Apartments in Brisbane. You will probably be weary from the flight but if not, we may be able to have a quick run around Brissy as the locals refer to it as. That can be decided on the day. Your Hotel is situated on the Eastern side of Brisbane and you should have great views of either the city or the river side. The Hotel has a pool and your room will have a balcony so you will be able to sit and relax on a typically warm Brisbane night.

Weather in Brisbane is comfortable and sub-tropical. The city of Brisbane enjoys a very enviable climate of brilliant hot summers and clear mild winters. These enticing attributes ensure that Brisbane is idyllic for visitors all year round. Whilst summer maximum average temperatures generally linger around 30°C, the summer months have some extremely hot days. People with fair skin need to take care in using hats, cool clothing that protects them from the sun and sunscreen. These common sense practices are essential to enjoying Brisbane summers. The winter is mild and very pleasant. Most winter days are sunny with average temperatures of around 17°C. Average monthly rainfall over the year is around 96 millimetres. With an average of 8 hours of sun per day.
December/January/February - Summer
Mean temperature: 24.8° C
Max average temperature: 29.2° C
Min average temperature: 20.4° C
Precipitation: averages 150.4mm a month
Wind speed average: 10.9 km/h

Brisbane Culture. The city of Brisbane boasts an impressive accompaniment of facilities to host the variety of cultural events that so frequently occur within the city. The huge Parklands complex adjoins the Queensland Cultural Centre which houses one of Australia's finest art galleries, the State Library, the amazing Queensland Museum, and the Queensland Performing Arts Complex.

Brisbane History Brisbane has undergone significant shaping and defining changes through the times of the convicts, free settlement, world wars, and the emergence of the new state and now what can only be described as an almost exponential boom-time for this lucky city. The sighting and selection of Brisbane for a gaol site in 1823 was undertaken when Sydney and the New South Wales colony decided that they needed a more ‘out of the way place’ to store some of the more hard-case (loopy) convicts.
By the 1860s Brisbane had shed its shady convict background and developed into a dynamic provincial centre, although it wasn't until the 1880s that the central business district was transformed by the construction of many fine public and commercial buildings. Which is a tribute to its now established standing as the heart of corporate Queensland. Brisbane's rapid economic growth, its favourable climate and wealth of facilities and resources have all attracted a massive wave of internal migration. The locals here call themselves Brisbanites and people who live in Queensland are referred to Australia-wide as Banana Benders due their huge production of Bananas.

Since 1980 over half a million Australians from other states have packed up and moved to Queensland. Today, Brisbane has a population of 1.6 million and it's the largest city in Queensland and registered as Australia's most liveable city. It’s here that I call home so yep!

Overnight: Medina Executive Apartments - Brisbane.

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