Brismania is a daily diary of what there is to discover in Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, Australia.
The goal is to discover something new, inspirational, quirky, exciting or just plain interesting every day of the year and see if the city can deliver.
I moved to Brisbane in mid-2011, and was fascinated to discover just how much the city had to offer. I was walking with a friend through James Street to Brunswick Street in Fortitude Valley and we began comparing it to other places we had visited around the world. We decided there and then, it was up with the best, and that we had a great city to hang out in right under our nose.
It’s easy to find comparisons with other parts of the world where you would stop and take a photo and now I’m doing it here. The tourist at home, as it were.
I’m a Brismaniac these days and every day I seem to spot something worth recording – and I haven’t even got to the coffee shops yet. It’s all a grand adventure.
Dot Whittington, Spring Hill, April 1, 2013
Click on a link to below to find that day’s post.
- Day 1: The Old Windmill, Wickham Tce, Spring Hill
- Day 2: Kingsford Smith Memorial, Brisbane Airport
- Day 3: St Paul’s Presbyterian, St Pauls Tce, Spring Hill
- Day 4: Eagle Street Pier, CBD
- Day 5: Cecelia McNally’s House, Leichhardt St, Spring Hill
- Day 6: Grand Hotel, Central Station
- Day 7: Queen Street Mall
- Day 8: Brisbane Arcade, CBD
- Day 9: Queensland Performing Arts Centre, South Bank
- Day 10: Spring Hill Baths, Torrington St, Spring Hill
- Day 11: Jacob’s Ladder, Wickham Tce
- Day 12: King Edward Park, Wickham Tce
- Day 13: Sliding Doors, West End
- Day 14: The Barracks, Petrie Tce
- Day 15: Victoria Military Barracks, Petrie Tce
- Day 16: Kangaroo, George St, CBD
- Day 17: Big Sister, Eagle Street
- Day 18: Roma Street Parkland
- Day 19: West End
- Day 20: Kurilpa Bridge
- Day 21: Forgotten Children statue
- Day 22: St John’s Cathedral
- Day 23: All Saints Church
- Day 24: Anzac Square
- Day 25: Shrine of Remembrance
- Day 26: Eyes are Singing Out, George & Roma Sts
- Day 27: Steam, the marbles, Reddacliff Place
- Day 28: Meriton Tower, tallest building, Adelaide St
- Day 29: Reddacliff Place/Brisbane Square, CBD
- Day 30: Shorncliffe Pier
- Day 31: The Guardian, Wharf St
- Day 32: Fortitude Valley
- Day 33: Chinatown
- Day 34: Centenary Place, Wickham & Ann Sts
- Day 35: Cathedral Place
- Day 36: Three historic figures, King George Square
- Day 37: The Passenger sculpture, Queen St
- Day 38: Masonic Memorial Centre, Ann St
- Day 39: Pride sculpture, Albert Street
- Day 40: Cathedral Square, Turbot St CBD
- Day 41: General Post Office, Queen St, CBD
- Day 42: Strangler figs Creek/Eagle/Elizabeth Sts, CBD
- Day 43: Chat/The Hands, Eagle St
- Day 44: Mt Coot-Tha
- Day 45: Place of the Land Tortoise, New Farm
- Day 46: Mooney Memorial Fountain, Eagle St
- Day 47: Power House, New Farm
- Day 48: The Banker, Post Office Square
- Day 49: Kangaroo Point Park
- Day 50: Government House
- Day 51: CSR Refinery, New Farm
- Day 52: Old Bishopsbourne, Milton
- Day 53: The Red Cube, Spring Hill
- Day 54: Post Office Square
- Day 55: Confluence, Brisbane Magistrate’s Court, George St
- Day 56: CityHopper ferry
- Day 57: Brisbane City Botanic Gardens
- Day 58: Naval Offices, Edward Street
- Day 59: Dialogue sculpture, Queen Street
- Day 60: Old Port Office, Edward Street
- Day 61: Triffids, trees and bikes
- Day 62: Wickham Terrace carpark
- Day 63: Echoes from the North, Edward & Queen St,CBD
- Day 64: Windsor Council Chambers
- Day 65: MacArthur Chambers, Edward St, CBD
- Day 66: Newstead Park
- Day 67: Windsor Quarry
- Day 68: Serbian Orthodox Church, Woolloongabba
- Day 69: The Drovers, Ann St
- Day 70: Story Bridge
- Day 71: Kangaroo Point Cliffs River Walk
- Day 72: Queen’s Park, CBD
- Day 73: Toowong Cemetery
- Day 74: Qld Government Printing Offices, William & George St
- Day 75: Mythological Creatures, Edward St
- Day 76: Old Government House, QUT Campus, Gardens Point
- Day 77: Old Commissariat Store, William St
- Day 78: Belle Vue Hotel site, cnr George & Alice Sts
- Day 79: Baptist Tabernacle, cnr Wickham & Edward Sts
- Day 80: Yorks Hollow
- Day 81: St Brigid’s Red Hill
- Day 82: Walter Taylor Bridge
- Day 83: Victoria Park, Herston
- Day 84: Manly
- Day 85: Gas stripping tower, West End
- Day 86: Old Paddington Cemetery & Christ Church
- Day 87: Gallery of Modern Art, South Bank
- Day 88: William Jolly Bridge
- Day 89: Brisbane City Hall pipe organ
- Day 90: Centenary Pool, Spring Hill
- Day 91: Enoggera Creek
- Day 92: Moonie Pipeline monument
- Day 93: Latrobe Terrace, Paddington
- Day 94: Yeronga Memorial Park
- Day 95: Boggo Road Gaol, Dutton Park
- Day 96: Miegunyah, Bowen Hills
- Day 97: Teneriffe Hill
- Day 98: Tsiolkovsky, Brisbane Planetarium, Toowong
- Day 99: Yungaba Immigration Hostel, Kangaroo Point
- Day 100: Customs House, Queen St
- Day 101: Vietnam commemoration, Kangaroo Point
- Day 102: Eildon Hill Reservoir, Windsor
- Day 103: City Beach, Kangaroo Point
- Day 104: Witnessing to Silence art installation, Roma St
- Day 105: Myrtletown, Pinkenba
- Day 106: Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Boondall
- Day 107: Public art at Spring Hill, Roma St & Gardens Point
- Day 108: Smallest lot in Brisbane, Windsor
- Day 109: Spring Hill reservoirs
- Day 110: St Mary’s Kangaroo Point
- Day 111: Nudgee Beach
- Day 112: Merthyr Park, New Farm
- Day 113: Telstra Museum, Clayfield
- Day 114: Colmslie Beach Reserve, Colmslie
- Day 115: Palazzo Boondall
- Day 116: Submariners Heritage Trail, Teneriffe
- Day 117: Rivergate Marina, Murrarie
- Day 118: Howard Smith Wharves, Fortitude Valley
- Day 119: Kedron Brook bikeway
- Day 120: Limbless Soldiers building, New Farm
- Day 121: Atkin Monument, Sandgate
- Day 122: Bowen Park, Bowen Hills
- Day 123: Eat Street, 199 MacArthur Ave, Hamilton
- Day 124: St Stephen’s Cathedral, Elizabeth St, City
- Day 125: Bee Gees open air museum, Redcliffe
- Day 126: Mount Coot-tha Botanic Gardens, Toowong
- Day 127: GOMA Gallery of Modern Art, South Bank
- Day 128: Admiralty Towers II Park, Queen St East
- Day 129: South Brisbane Cemetery, 185 Annerley Rd, Dutton Park
- Day 130: Captain Burke Park, Kangaroo Point
- Day 131: National Freedom Wall, Mount-tha Botanic Gardens
- Day 132: United Service Club buildings, Wickham Terrace
- Day 133: Brisbane Tramway Museum,Tramway St,Ferny Grove
- Day 134: Queensland Police Museum, 200 Roma St
- Day 135: William Street, CBD
- Day 136: Drover’s Dog, South Bank Parklands
- Day 137: Ballow Chambers, 121 Wickham Terrace
- Day 138: Lucas’s Papaw Ointment museum, 1590 Beaudesert Rd, Acacia Ridge
- Day 139: Victoria Bridge, South Bank
- Day 140: Queensport Rocks Park, Murrarie
- Day 141: Fourex Brewery, Milton Rd, Milton
- Day 142: TradeCoast Central Heritage Park, 87 Schneider Rd, Eagle Farm
- Day 143: Speaker’s Corner, Parliament House, George St, CBD
- Day 144: Queensland Maritime Museum, beside the Goodwill Bridge, South Bank
- Day 145: Reservoir Gods, Mount Nebo Rd-Waterworks Rd, The Gap
- Day 146: Port of Brisbane, Fisherman Island, Lytton
- Day 147: St Andrew’s Uniting Church, Ann St, City
- Day 148: St Helena Island, Moreton Bay
- Day 149: PoinsettiaRiverfire, Roma Street