I was glad I had accepted Wayne’s offer to meet us, as this was the first proper city we had been in for some time, it was dark, and we would certainly have got lost on our way out of the town centre. An additional benefit of having made the mistake of booking the car for the morning not the evening was that we had to wait and when we left the terminal most of the ‘rush hour traffic” had already gone. I think that as motorists we are preconditioned to be stressed by traffic. Compared to the incredible levels of congestion I have frequently driven through in São Paulo, the traffic here was light but I still felt myself being tense. The images we see of cars for sale, driving along miles of open roads, just prepares us to be cheesed off by the reality of day to day driving.
The new house that Wayne and Louise recently moved into was very nice. Built in the style of a classic Queenslander, without the veranda all round, it has been or rather is in the process of being converted by enclosing the area below to for additional living space. It was all very homely and we were made most welcome by our charming, generous hosts and their two delightful daughters. My one regret, we didn’t stay here longer than we did.
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