My mum and I made the last minute decision to go on a two-day road trip this weekend. For a long time, we've wanted to drive to the Toowoomba region during the sunflower season to explore. And more recently, we've been talking about taking a drive beyond Toowoomba to Warwick to look at some of the beautiful old buildings of that region. So we set of in search of flowers.
We stopped at the little town of Crow's Nest on the way to go op shopping and to check out the beautiful autumnal leaves in the park.
Next stop: Toowoomba for a little shopping. We visited the sweet flower market there.
We stopped by Laurel Bank Park, which is a beautiful park with many nice gardens and little walks.
After a little while, we left town and headed south. During our trip, we saw a total of five sunflower fields, two of which we stopped at to take photos. The first spot was along the highway at the exit for Cambooya. At least six other cars were parked along the side of the road, everyone enjoying and photographing the beautiful sunflowers.
Further down that same road, we found another field called 'Mayfield.' :) We found ourselves among some of the same people who were at the first field. Evidently some were expert sunflower-photographers as they had stepladders to take great photos from above.
It wasn't easy to capture the feeling, and the sunflowers stretching out for what seemed like forever...
After taking a scenic drive through a few little towns, we arrived in Allora, where we were spending the night. The town was home to a few historical buildings, including the house where P.L. Travers, the author of Mary Poppins, lived.
We spent the night at the hotel and then drove off to Warwick the next morning for exploring. The local art gallery was running an exhibition about miniature houses and buildings, which was the cutest. I loved how much attention to detail went into each model.
We drove by the amazing Abbey of the Roses, which looks like
this. Unfortunately, we couldn't go in, but I did take the below picture over the fence.
After spending several hours in Warwick we started the drive home, stopping a few times at other pretty places that caught our attention.
It was an awesome trip, and we did it on a pretty tight budget as well. We took most of our own food, so it ended up costing about $10 each in food. Accommodation was $25 each and the fuel, we estimated, cost about $60 for the trip. So in total, the trip cost us about $130. Not bad for a beautiful weekend getaway!
