West End has a long history of multiculturalism and artistic creativity. Post Expo'88, Southbank changed significantly from the industrial part of central Brisbane to a trendy new place to be and be seen. This change has been progressively spreading into West End, with trendy new restaurants/cafe's and apartments taking over however you can still find the "old" West End along with artistic outbursts if you look.
We are getting our bathroom renovated at the moment, and the completion date has been extended by a couple of days.
I guess it should have been expected, but what was interesting was that it seems the delay is not due to unexpected issues in the fit-out (as in water damage, etc) but rather the delay in the supplier getting the taps to the company doing the work.
I was recently watching a great show called "Kevin McCloud: Slumming It". In it, Kevin investigates a slum in India and discovers that while the people are in squalor, they have far more sense of community and use of common space than we in the west do.
While there doesn't appear to be the available common spaces and subsequent community in most cities, I was really happy to see a Community Garden in my recent wanderings around West End.
Sometimes a holiday is more than just the opportunity to see something new, or achieve some project at home, sometimes it all about you.
Earlier in the year Ephox, after many years in Paddington, moved it's Brisbane office to West End. Whenever I find myself in a new location I like to go for walks around the area to get a feel for it. On a few of these, I came across interesting or amusing things, and so I thought I'd create a new category (West End Wanderings) on my Blog for them.
For the first one, I thought I’d introduce my favorite place to get coffee.
