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Brisbane Slideshow
Brisbane
Travel Blogs from Brisbane, Australia
Do I Want To Stay Here???
This is a top pick! ... walk to the Chinatown area a couple of kilometres from the hostel. Nothing else to do so I took my time. Chinatown in Brisbane is quite impressive, far more so than Melbourne. Loads of colourful archways and it all feels very oriental. Still early ...
lazing along the east coast
This is a top pick! ... the two of us to be out in the same pub in the middle of Sydney was pretty weird. I didn't even know he was in Australia. So over the week I frequented many public houses, decided on VB as my beer of choice then renounced it in favour of Carlton cold, ...
A Pony In a Glass?
This is a top pick! ... spill your beer, resembling monopoly money with ordering a drink proving just as complicated. You would think in a place such as Australia buying a beer would be as straight forward as "A beer please, thanks mate?" but the range of drinks sizes here ...
Day 295-301: Brisbane
This is a top pick! ... for a bit before going to Family which is a nightclub which has a gay night on Sunday. It's one of the best clubs in Brisbane and considering it was a Sunday it was pretty busy. Music was cool and the place itself is pretty funky, lasted there until about ...
Brisbane
This is a top pick! Hi Guys, You can read our update from Brisbane in our entry from Cairns, Australia entitled 'Coast to Coast to Coast'. Cheers, K & ...
Rainbow Beach to Brisbane - Day 227
This is a top pick! ... Rainbow beach relaxing. Had a couple of hours on the beach and then drove south following the coastline. Took a scenic route towards Brisbane via the hills around Mapleton. Parked up tonight only 16km north of Brisbane city centre. Need to drop the car ...
6 MONTHS TRAVELLING - Going too fast!!!
This is a top pick! Unbelievable, we have been travelling for exactly 6 months - how fast has that gone?! It's only when you think back about all the things you've done that you realise where the time has gone. Nothing much else to write about today. We just dossed ...
Trip Itinerary
This is a top pick! ... be useful for anyone thinking about meeting up with me (or giving me sweet hookups for places to stay ) Right now I am in Brisbane Australia and will be travelling Oz for about 6 more weeks. Basically I am going up to Cairns, across to Darwin, ...
Donations
This is a top pick! ... out there that read my site each month. That would mean that about 297 of you have not found your way to the donation site. Australia has been extremely hard on my budget. I'm not threatening you or anything, but I may just have to come home if I ...
Brisbane, Beers and Bye Bye to our Jucy Van
This is a top pick! ... ;t open so we got the tunes on and partied the night away. His flat was amazing with this huge balcony overlooking Brisbane – top night had by all….well maybe not the other flatmates that had to listen to banging techno while they tried ...
Bye Bye Brisbane
This is a top pick! After having been in Sydney for over 3 months, this last bit of Australia seems to be going quite quickly, even though we still have almost 3 months left here. Well today we are heading down to Surfers Paradise for a few days and then to Byron Bay, before ...
Koalas are so cute!
This is a top pick! So I've pretty much decided that the entire purpose that koalas have in existing is to be very very cute. Today, I went with Maddy and Corissa to the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary. There were loads of koalas, of course, as well as kangaroos and ...
Anzac Day BBQ
This is a top pick! ... and I to join him and his family for a BBQ on Anzacs Day (one of the many bank holidays around this time of year in Australia - 4day work weeks! - 4-in-a-row, I tell ya!). Lizzie (also part of the same gene pool) from Ravenfield, Rotherham joins us too ...
Brisbane - Queenslands Capital City
This is a top pick! ... city, being home to lots of Gum/Eucalyptus Trees there are many Koalas here and this is the first place in Australia to start a conservation project. We went inside the centre and learnt loads about the Koalas....some interesting stuff actually - like ...
The Back Story
This is a top pick! ... and twice lit up the bars in Surfer's Paradise till the very wee hours. I used the rest of the time to plan my months in Australia and to begin the process of realizing I am no longer a student and must do something with my life (well, in a year or ...
minus 74 hours to go and counting...
This is a top pick! Hello everyone, We have created this travelogue so you can join us on our travels around the globe! Hopefully we'll be good and actually keep it updated. When we enter new logs we'll send out notification emails, and you can browse through ...
Where the Bloody Hell are Ya?
This is a top pick! AUSTRALIA SUMMARY (Travelling Bit only 21/11/05 to 29/01/06) Highlights: - Massive roadtrip around oz and selling the camper at a profit! - Experiencing the vast contrast of this massive island - Seeing familiar faces - Finding professional ...
Pidgeandpie Road trip amendments
This is a top pick! So, by the time Wayne had found suitable employment, we had less than two months remaining in Australia before our scheduled flight departed for Fiji and beyond. We therefore decided to sit down and have a good think about what to do about Wayne ...
Worst hostel ever!
This is a top pick! After the 2 hour bus ride from Byron Bay to Brisbane, we headed to the hostel. Walking down the street of our hostel, there was a lot of “Gentleman Bars” with ladies dressed in provocative clothes outside handing out flyers. ...
Anzac Day, sufferer's parasite, and more zorbing
This is a top pick! ... Day, one of Australia's most important public holidays. It's a rememberance day for all those who fought in Australia's various wars, and Brisbane has the biggest ceremonies of anywhere in the country. I walked off the ferry this morning literally into ...
Alan Clements' World Dharma Forum
This is a top pick! On Saturday 20 March 2004 synchonicity found me at the World Dharma Forum led by Alan Clements. If you don't know Alan just published a book called Instinct for Freedom: Finding Liberation Through Living that Jesse and I have read and found substantial ...
Koala Sanctuary
This is a top pick! ... a bit sick with a horrible cough and asthma attacks, but I was still able to get around and see a few things. I guess I'm allergic to Australia. Top on my list of things to do was to go to the Koala Sanctuary. I didn't have much interest in going to ...
Departure, by Fabyan
This is a top pick! ... , et nous sommes juste allés dormir après ça ... nous devions nous lever à 3h du matin le lendemain (heure de Brisbane). 5 heures (sommes-nous en retard?) Non, c’est l’heure d’Auckland! Destination: NOUVELLE-CALÉDONIE! Fabyan ...
Chelise Went Home
This is a top pick! I went home for 6 weeks while Ben was in the Phillipines with his hetero life mate - Dave. This might screw with our pod map, but I had to put up some photos. Unfortunately I did many other things (great mates Emmy & Greg's wedding & Jassy and Ray's baby ...