Amongst other things, we were on the hunt for swimsuits as we had belatedly remembered ours were still hanging on the balcony of our Cairns hotel.
The church had a new parish priest and this was his first Mass there and a bit of a celebration.
We had a successful morning buying swimsuits in an amazingly cheap shop for under £4 each. We went back in and bought shorts, T-shirts and I even bought shoes! Mainly because of the heat, there are no more photos of our day. We walked in the heat and flies between the Shopping Malls, meeting fellow travellers as usual. It was tea and cream cake in a bakery cafe next. I asked for hot water with our tea; it came in a minute cream jug. The girl didn’t quite get the idea.
After a taxi ride back to the hotel we spent much of the afternoon in the pool and the shade. Contrary to our fears the cheap swimsuits didn’t leak dye into the pool or onto our skins. The was however much amusement when Patricia sat up on her sun-bed and her straps pinged free one after the other. It is currently a halter neck swimsuit.
The promised cocktail party in the early evening was very good. Champagne, wine, beer and excellent canapés. There were delicious little steak pies and quiches, battered prawns and much more. It was a complimentary event to make up for the fiasco of our preflight early breakfast in Cairns in another Hilton Hotel.
It was straight from the cocktail party to our meal with six others in the hotel’s Asian restaurant. It was a very sociable meal.
PS Our swimsuits are currently in the mail on their way to our Sydney hotel for £9 postage. I hope they get here in time.
Australia and New Zealand 2020 