BRISBANE - City Without Trams

As most people know, I was born in Victoria, schooled in Adelaide and now I live in Brisbane to 'finish', or is that continue, my university degree. In Adelaide, South Australia we are proud of these new fancy trams that replaced older versions just recently. I have been to Melbourne and Sydney and seen their versions of trams as well (basically Adelaide was catching up to these capital cities as far as quality of public transport goes), and now I am in Brisbane and not a tram in sight. I am not saying that when i was in Adelaide all i caught was trams places, however i did not expect to live in Brisbane and have my major form of transport being a high powered mini catamaran they call a 'CityCat', run by the Brisbane City Council from one end of the city part of the Brisbane River to the other, Bretts' Wharf to the University of Queensland to be precise. This ferry - like vessel takes me from home to uni in 15 minutes for $2.50 return. It is one of the most unique and awesome things about living in Brisbane, besides the cheap pubs, abundance of pubs and awesome people. Their sporting teams kind of suck at the moment though. I still hold true to my beloved Adelaide Crows, the Australian Rules Football team that everyone wrote off last year as a bunch of misfits who couldn't even kick a football who finished third in the national compettition. Anyhoo, point is I am a Brisbanite now. I have been here for nearly 3 months (got here on February 8th from memory) on a $99 flight and well, I probably wont be here for much longer than a year but lets just say, besides the lack of trams Brisbane is an awesome place.