A slightly disturbed night's sleep (there is aircon in the apartment but, crucially, none in our room, although a fan has been promised...).

Coffee and breakfast, swiftly followed by another takeaway coffee, get us going and we hop on the ferry to the Southbank. As it is currently drizzling (WHAT?!), this feels very much like London! There are plenty of bridges (one looks suspiciously like the Millennium Bridge), and the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) is a brutalist concrete design, just like the Southbank Centre or National Theatre. Just in case you hadn't got it, there's a Wheel of Brisbane just next-door. Foxy even feels a bit nostalgic. He's also extremely happy that the sun has gone away! Boo.

A wander along the Southbank led us to a free exhibition about Les Mis, the show currently on at the Lyric Theatre in QPAC. As Foxy has never seen it, we end up buying tickets for tomorrow night. So that was a more expensive free exhibition than intended!

A quick sandwich stop before the Queensland Museum - free entry to their main exhibitions, which include a really interesting potted history of Queensland, and some palaeontology highlights such as the "Killer Kangaroo".

On our way to the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) we pass the State Library of Queensland, where we enjoy wandering around the bookshop so much that by the time we get to GoMA, it's 5pm and they're closing. So that will have to be a trip for another day!

A bit chilly from today's shocking lack of sunshine, we cross a bridge back towards the North Bank and find a food market (free tasters!). Then back to our airbnb for supper and laundry (it isn't all glamorous).

Out for a quick drink/bottle at Claret House to plan tomorrow.

Not many photos from today - we're waiting until it's sunny again to take pictures of the South Bank, to maintain the illusion that the sun shines everyday in Oz... ;-)

AB