Winter Mornings

There is something just so refreshing about needing to wear a jacket to walk in to work in the morning.  We have had the coldest weather in Brisbane in four years and we are really feeling like it is winter.  It takes us about 10 mintues to walk to the pathway along the river.  The first 5 or so minutes after we leave our house are all in the shade and we walk quickly until we warm up.  By the time we get to the pathway we are nice and warm and the first stretch is all in the sun.  In the summer this is way too hot for us but now that it is only around 10ºC when we are walking, the sun is very welcome.

Beautiful morning on the Brisbane River

The William Jolly Bridge and City Cats

We find that most restaurants have heaters outside but very few have any kind of heater on the inside, so it is actually warmer to eat outside, under the heater, than it is to eat inside.  If we ate indoors we would need our jackets and toques, but outside we are fine in our shirts if we are right under the heaters.  We have used this colder weather as a good learning experience in the Aussie language.  After gales of laughter about what we were saying, we found out the Aussies call toques "beanies".  Now that is funny!