Home to a delightful array of coffee houses and gift shops, the Block Arcade is one of Melbourne's best kept secrets. I stumbled upon it quite by chance after visiting the Post Office.
Located in hip multicultural West End, the Three Monkeys Café on Mollison Street has been welcoming patrons for decades with its low lit atmospheric interior evocative of a middle eastern bazaar, with walls emblazoned with framed signed posters of artists and entertainers from the nearby Queensland Performing Arts Centre. Also featuring a garden exterior, the Three Monkeys is without a doubt one of Brisbane's most famous places to have a coffee and also has a wide selection of delectable cakes and standard café fare. Highly recommended.
There are various means of getting into Broadbeach and the rest of the Gold Coast after alighting at Gold Coast Airport. Of these, the 777 Gold Coast Airport to Broadbeach Express bus will take you into Broadbeach South Station, connecting you to the light rail network to Surfers Paradise, Southport, Griffith University and Gold Coast University Hospital, with the extension to Helensvale Railway Station (for rail connections to Varsity Lakes or Brisbane) being completed late 2017. The journey takes approximately 40 mins, and you can pay the bus driver in cash for a single journey or use a TransLink Go Card for a discounted fare. Go Cards can be purchased and topped up at the Airport or most 711 stores on the Coast. For timetable and fare information ring TransLink on 131230, accessible 24 hours a day. Alternately access the TransLink Info website at http://www.translink.com.au /.
42 kilometres of uninterrupted beach make the Gold Coast a haven for sunbathers, swimmers, and surfers alike, and for a birdseye view one cannot go past Skypoint on the 77th level of Q1, just at the Surfers Paradise tram station. At Skypoint not only do you get 360 degree views, but at Bar Seventy 7, one can order meals and drinks as well as a daily buffet breakfast from 7.30am to 10.30am. Admission to Skypoint costs approximately $18, with a value for money 360 Club Annual Pass for $36, which also gets you discounts at Bar Seventy 7. The tallest building to the left of above image is Q1. Image courtesy of http://allhdwallpapers.com/surfers-paradise-amazing-hd-wallpapers-high-quality/
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