What a mess....

Three days here- washing, drying, packing, getting ready for our trip to Malaysia and Thailand. Everything out of the car, sorting out what's going and what's staying. It's a good job I have Anne here to take charge!

Took the tent and things off the roof rack ready for storing them inside the car while we are away- everything was sodden even though I had carefully wrapped them in a tarpaulin.

No chance of drying them out, it is overcast here and likely to rain again anyway, so I have to put them back on the roof. Just hope they are safe there, as soon as we can get on a camp site we will have to get them out and erect them all.

Anyway, last night we attended Fortitude Valley Rotary Club, in the Pavillion of the Queensland Cricket Club.

They have around 65 members, chartered in 1939, but what surprised me was the number of quite young people who were there. I would guess some of them are in their twenties, certainy a number in their thirties and forties.they are recruiting regularly, and quality members by the looks of it. A lively club also, twilight, the speaker told us about the music scene in Brisbane. Two famous 60's groups come from here, before moving to the UK, The Saints, and another well known group that I can't remember.


What I omitted to mention the other day when I reported on Anzac Day was the buses here. There are dedicated bus routes, either overhead the street or underground, and no other traffic can use them.We came back from George Square, an underground bus station, to Chermside on these routes, three miles of roads completely clear of traffic, even with the bus stops overhead. What a fantastic idea- and quite cheap too- just a pound for about 6 or 7 miles!
My next report will be from Kuala Lumpur- we have a couple of days there before we go on to Ipoh. A night flight tonight though- not looking forawrd to that!