Wooloongabba

Don't you just love these aboriginal names?  Woolloongabba is an inner suburb of Brisbane best known for the Brisbane Cricket Ground (the Gabba).  The cricket ground has undergone some radical renovations since I used to go there in the 1970s to watch intersate games that Queensland invariably lost.  In those days there was a large grassy hill, strangely called the Hill, where we could swill down vast amounts of beer from Castelmaine XXXX tinnies.  Who cared whether Queensland was winning or not.  A lot of beer creates a big appetite.  We would turn to our old favourites of fish and chips wrapped in newspaper and chiko rolls.  A chiko roll is an oversized savoury snack with almost the same form and content as an egg roll - spring roll combination with one difference.  It wasn't pork in the roll rather it was mutton.  I can't believe I actually ate those things.  At the other end of the ground from the Hill were a series of stands set beneath huge Moreton Bay fig trees which gave a certain exotic feel to the place.