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Welcome to out blog, Genzano it story
and this post, welcome at my new Brisbane address
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At my new address
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At my new address
Welcomed at my new address
Dear readers, this post is the continuation
of our last post, Welcome to Brisbane.
Now just to keep my life story going in a way
that it makes sense, let me talk about in a more personal way how I was welcome
at my uncle house in Brisbane; we reaching my uncle house and were greeted by
the people that were in at that time of the day, as there were some that had
gone to work, you see there were quite a few people living at my uncle house
already and they were all from the same town that I came from, so we all knew
each other somehow. Here I am not going to be very personal and tell you their
name, I am not going to do that for a couple of reasons; you see, if it happens
that any of these people read these hubs, I don’t know whether they like the
idea of being mentioned here; therefore, I am going to tell you in a general
way just things that happened and keep everything impersonal if I can.
So, I was saying that I had reached my final
destination in Brisbane city, which was at my uncle house and greeted by those
that were there at that time, then we unloaded my luggage and we started to
talk about the town I came from Genzano di Lucania with the people that were
present, because they were all from the same town as I have said already, and
they wanted to know as much as they could about their relatives. While we were
unloading at the same time I was telling them about the presents that I brought
from my own family to my uncle, they were mostly some local town produce the
largest of them was now a seven litre demijohn of wine, since the ten litre
broke on the way, I had also some 6 litre of pure olive oil and a large tray of
homemade large biscuits that we make in Genzano when somebody gets married,
there were also other presents that I was going to give them as soon as I would
unpack my own luggage.
Soon everybody came back from work, and I
greeted every one of them and told them as much as I could about things that
they wanted to know. Evening came and we had dinner and after that I retired to
my bedroom, where my new bed that my brother had bought me was ready for a good
night sleep on firm ground after being a whole month on the ship. Now before we
go on about telling our readers the timber houses of Brisbane city, I think
that it would be more appropriate, if I tell you first about some positive
sights that one can see in this city of Brisbane.
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Brisbane city views
Wherever you go there are always some
interesting things to see, also Brisbane city has got several thing to show the
world, so, we have taken the liberty of showing you a few photos of this city
that makes us proud; I know that most people that come to Australia would say
that Brisbane does not look as good as Sydney, but so what, it is still a nice
city to live in and has got a few things that we are proud of; like the Story
Bridge, City Hall with its clock tower that strikes the time every quarter of
an hour, the city centre with all its shopping centre, Parliament House and the
botanic gardens next to it, where we could go walking around looking at the
garden or the pond, with its ducks and swans or sitting on the lawn on a hot
summer day and listening to a band playing music during the weekends.
Now there are many more parks in Brisbane and
most of them have a playground for children, so most people used to go to these
gardens or parks in those times, perhaps today they are not used as much as
they used to be then; of these parks the most important after the City Botanic
Garden would be New Farm Park, this park is well known for the roses that are
grown there, so some of us call it the park of the roses, it is also a sight to
see early in spring when the jacaranda trees are in flower, this park has also
a large playground for children, it has got a kiosk, where you can have a cup
tea or buy an ice cream for the kids and a few other things, on hot summer days
one could sit under the trees near the Brisbane River and fill almost as if you
are at the beach; you see Brisbane River is a very wide river and it is
navigable for many miles, so, while we would be sitting in the shade of the
trees we could see the traffic of bouts on the river, some of these boats would
be carrying just people that were sightseeing on the river, or going to another
pleasure destination.
Another important garden that that needs mentioning here is the new Botanic Garden at Toowong Brisbane, near Mt-Coot-Tha forest this is a western suburb on the fringes of Brisbane city, this new botanic garden has been opened because the old botanic garden in the city lost some of its land, as they have built another university there; now apart from seeing what we can see and find in a botanic garden; from this new botanic garden, you could visit also this observatory;
The Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium is a planetarium located on the grounds of Brisbane
Botanic Gardens[1] in the suburb of Toowong, Brisbane, Queensland,Australia. The Planetarium was officially opened on 24
May 1978.
Now, let us forget again for a moment that this article is mainly to talk about the early sixties here, as we have done above, so let us add what else could be attractive today in Brisbane, here we are talking about the year 2014 and we can add also that in Brisbane there are many shopping centre that are the size of a small town, and they are all well organized and air conditioned all under one roof that it is a pleasure to go shopping specially in those hot summer days, when one can go in there and stroll from shop to shop doing the shopping and keeping cool at the same time, what else would you want?
Anyhow let us go back to talk about the sixties and those wooden houses.
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The wooden houses
Living in Brisbane wooden houses
At my new address in Brisbane Australia, even
though it was a wooden house I was welcomed and soon I felt no difference at
all to live in it, after all that is the way that most of the local people live
in these parts of Australia. But now, just for the sake of knowing what I am
talking about here let me describe this house for you. It was a four bedroom
house, in addition to the four bedrooms there was a lounge room, a large
kitchen where there was enough room for a large dining table, there was a
bathroom with bathtub and shower that had a gas heated hot water devise that
you could light up and have a hot shower, the toilet was downstairs under the
house; now all this large house and floor space was set on wooden stumps, I
know that those people that have never lived or seen a house on wooden stumps
before are saying; what is he talking about a house on wooden stumps, I have
never heard of this before what a strange country Australia is.
I know it might sound strange to some people,
and it might feel a bit strange too to live in these houses at the beginning,
but anyhow they are there and they have a pretty good reason why people built
them like that in these parts of the world. After all is not even a new idea
when we think about it; you see when I was at school I remember that my teacher
was saying that a long time ago for safety reasons, some people that lived by
the sea would build their house on stilts over shallow water, so that they
could defend them easily if they were attacked; Now we could say, okay that was
a good idea then but what are the reasons for these houses to be built like
that here?
This is how we migrant saw Brisbane city when
we arrived to Australia for the first time.
I believe that we may have to tell you in our
next article about these wooden houses, because it would be more appropriate,
as we will write about it and explain some of the reasons why these houses in
Brisbane were built with timber and they have been built on wooden stumps.
See
you soon.
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Genzano it story
Welcome at my Brisbane address
IS GOING TO BE CONTINUED;
Next time with, Brisbane wooden houses
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Genzano it story
Welcome at my Brisbane address
IS GOING TO BE CONTINUED;
Next time with, Brisbane wooden houses
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