Batty Brisbane

We arrived in Brisbane today and my first impression is I LOVE IT!! It seems like such a nice city. For some reason I thought it was a surfer town but it’s actually a city on the river. Unfortunately we only have two nights here and decided more or less straight away that we would spend the day at the Steve Irwin Zoo tomorrow so we had to make the most of the afternoon.

We decided to go to Southbank which was such a good decision. I really hadn't heard a lot about Brisbane so didn't know what to expect but I'm definitely impressed. The path we walked along at Southbank had flowers all around which was so pretty and when we came round a corner we got to this beautiful manmade swimming pool. It was like a little lagoon with mini beaches in between the pools and round the sides. Luckily we'd brought our swim stuff so we piled straight in. It was ideal and afterwards we went for a little walk and saw lots more pretty areas including a picnic spot.

A cafe had also caught our eye because it was called the chocolate bar. This place was amazing with chocolate pizzas, fondues and crepes and I had the best white hot chocolate with crunchy waffle pieces in it.

When we came out it had started to get dark really quick and all of a sudden there were these bats everywhere. They were absolutely huge- I felt like I was in Gotham City. I'm not the biggest fan of bats either as they are complete creeps but it was definitely something to see numbers of them flying about as the sun set over the city skyline.