I had first seen Toowoomba on some local travel programme which is on on Saturday afternoons over here, and it looked like a really nice town, full of Antiquey shops and great big old queenslanders, parks and cafes and whatnot. There was a lovely B&B recommended, so I took the decision that this would be our destination for our first get away. However despite the fact that I was all very excited about it, whenever I mentioned it to a local they got a look of total horror on their face and I began to worry that I had made a horrendous error of judgement.
As we pulled in on the Greyhound bus I was a bit worried that I had indeed got it all terribly terribly wrong. There was no evidence of antiques, or cafes, or queenslanders, or gardens, or anything really. All we could see were large 60s style concrete buildings, and big car lots.
However as we walked up to our B&B we obviously wandered into the bit that the programme had been based on. We walked through a beautiful park, up a really wide and leafy street with lovely looking cafes on. The B&B was just GORGEOUS. The people who ran it had lived all over the world and it was full of lovely little artefacts and knick knacks and you could spend your whole stay getting the story of them. They were absolutely lovely people - and to add cream to the cake they had a KITTY!
He is a Russian Blue/Maine Coon cross called Moff and I love him.
The first afternoon we were there we never even managed to leave the B&B to explore - just sat by the roaring log fire for a bit reading books, then had some afternoon tea in the garden, read some books with the cat and just enjoyed being out of the city and somewhere with a bit of peace and quiet.
We went out for a few scoops (alright, quite a few scoops) and a nice dinner, then sat in the guest lounge and ate chocs and played chess next to the fire. It was just heavenly and we were so super relaxed.
Basically it was just lovely - really relaxing and it kind of helped to drive home the fact that we would very much like to stop living over the road from a nightclub and have a bit of space. It was so nice to be somewhere with more than 2 rooms, a garden and STUFF in it.
Speaking of stuff, our stuff allegedly lands in Brisbane on 19th July. Which is excellent progress! We'll just have to wait and see how long Customs want to hang onto it for...
In other very exciting news, as of 21st July I will be doing this on a weekly basis. I am quite pant wettingly excited about it, but haven't had my orientation yet so can't fill you in on the details for a bit. Will do though. I think Stu is a little worried that I am going to try and smuggle all the cats home though.
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