We were taking Aidan in to the Lady Cilento Hospital Just a routine appointment. As we are not familiar with the city roads anymore, they have change lanes and all sorts of things, we took the train and bus. It does take longer but the hassle is far less.
Warren did the route to get there re times and we needed to leave home at 10.30 to catch the 11.30 train, we planned to drive several stops before getting the train to make it easier for coming home. What we had forgotten about and it was a good thing, was the new line that started last month. It joined our line at Strathpine where we were getting on the train.
Things just fell into place, I would normally have parked at the shopping centre and walked to the station about fifteen minutes, Warren said that he had always been lucky and got a park on the other side so we tried there as we did have plenty of time. Wouldn't you know it, one park right outside, we both scanned the area for signs to say either no parking or disabled but nope nothing there so we grabbed it. Only problem, that meant we were almost thirty minutes early as we had to wait for the early train to go thru but with the new line, it was only five minutes away.
Got to the city and went to bus, we could catch one of four buses, again three minutes to wait. This meant we were a whole hour early for Aidans appointment, time for a leisurely lunch. A new cafe/ eatery had opened since I was at the hospital last with quite a few choices. Still early but they saw us straight away. no dramas at all and it was almost the same going back home with buses and trains dovetailing as it were but without having to rush.
We had our Go cards but Aidan didnt so we bought him a paper ticket, almost twice the price of ours. Warren had a spare adult go card with some money on it so we used that for coming home. Kids concession cards are only good for 90 ninety days so unless kids go to school bu public transport, there is not much point in having them as they go out of date.
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