Another easy day of driving brought us to our next destination of Helidon Spa. We are staying in an Eco Village and it is a lovely setting with huge grassy sites overlooking a small lake (not big enough to kayak on though. The name of the town, Helidon Spa sounded a little bit special but it really isn’t, other than being a lovely small town. Unfortunately no “spa treatments” for me. The town is only a 20 minute drive from the city of Toowoomba, one of the oldest inland cities, the second largest regional centre in Queensland and a place that we had enjoyed visiting on a previous trip, north. We drove in to Toowoomba after settling in to our new site. We decided to visit a bakery for lunch and I found the nearest one on our route into the city. It was in a very upper class area of Toowoomba, had great reviews and was busy. Rob ordered a pie for himself and a quiche for me and nearly died at the price. Needless to say they were very expensive and although my quiche was delious, his pie was disappointing. Anyway we continued on and visited the magnificent Victorian era Queens Park, which also contained the Botanic Gardens. Toowoomba has a famous garden festival held in September. There are garden beds spread over the whole of the city. Of course many of them are in the Botanic Gardens and they have already been planted out and will look quite spectacular in a couple of months. Queens Park was a hive of activity with many families and groups enjoying all the park had to offer, beautiful nature, mature trees, picnic areas, playgrounds and playing fields etc. Following this, we visited the main part of Toowoomba where we walked the street and I enjoyed the well preserved Victorian architecture. We completed our visit to Toowoomba with a trip up to the Picnic Point lookout. Here we had a good view of parts of Toowoomba.
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