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Brisbane Slideshow
Brisbane
Travel Blogs from Brisbane, Australia
A Week of Living in a House... luxury!!!
... the Bluetongues (ice hockey) play. It was quite interesting to see, especially coming from Canada. It is the highest level of play in Australia, which is an open age. The youngest player was 17 and the oldest over 40! There is also no glass on the boards ...
Brisbane Day #3
Today was a little overcast. We opted to stay intown and do some shopping rather than travel to the beach. We went to a large 3 storey shopping centre called indooroopilly. It was busy with everyone shopping for last minute christmas ...
Last Day In Brisbane
Unlike Karen & Will we didn't have to work the day after Pendulum so could have a lie-in and recover. We had a chilled day on the South Bank and Sharon made the most of her last day near a Max Bremmer Chocolate Shop. Later that day we ...
Brisbane, AUS
Brisbane is where my moms side of the family is from, and where my only first cousins are from, so whenever I get to catch up with them, its fantastic. I don't have much family in the states at all. People always grow up sharing holidays and ...
Fraser Island
... from london and the other from canada. They even made our dinner on the second night. Left Fraser and have now arrived back in Brisbane as our rucksacks we had to leave at Bribie Island. Heading up north again now to Cairns so hopefully run into loads of ...
Homeless in Australia
... for the night... Turns out, I could move in and would do so the following morning! No longer homeless in Australia!! Finding such a perfect place to live called for a celebration so we bought our first box of Goon (Australian cheap 4 ...
Back on the road again
... I met two of the Korean guys who were interested, we spent an hour and a half wading through the paperwork that is registering a car in Australia and finally we were done! The Korean's with Bruce, me with one of his old plates in my bag and $2500 cash in ...
Children's Festival
Today is the beginning of a children's festival week called 'Out of the box' which is located in the South Bank area of Brisbane across the Cultural center precinct. We left early and caught the 'City Cat' which is a cool boat that goes up the river ...
Home Again
It is soooo good to be home safe and sound and in one piece! Well no that great to be home... just safe and sound in one piece after that cab ride! We left the Beautiful Koh Chang and the Oasis (very sad to go) to make it ...
Brisbane international airport
... Not quite as busy as heathrow but a lot busier than Perth. I'm watching the guys joon around on their little trucks. Flying into Brisbane this morning was very pretty. It was overcast but the city centre was bathed in a shaft of sunlight. I had better do ...
Return to Noosa and on to Brisbane
... there! After another day chilling on the beach (well, it has to be done, the weather has been stunning!) we took ourselves off to Australia Zoo one day. It was a really good day - the highlight of course being the croc show that I am sure you ...
From the soggy city to a dry one
G'day all, Well the big day has arrived with everything in order bags packed, Nancy's cousin Anna and her Hubby Alex have arrived to look after cadbury the cat. We were up at some ungodly hour at 4am,as usual Nancy was already packed an ready to go by ...
Auntie Margarets/Gold Coast
Hello, sorry it's been ages again but we've been really busy celebrating all the festivities!! So back to Australia, after the time we had in Noosa we thought it best to move on before we had anymore bad luck, so we headed on down to Brisbane to see ...
City Beach
Hi Everyone Today we went back to the 'Out of the Box ' festival to see a performance of Aboriginal culture, it was really interesting, this time Ellen got up on the stage with some other children to do the Aboriginal Emu dance - arrrr so proud of my ...
Billy Idol was right, it is hot in the city
... always are gracious hosts, who extended every courtesy possible to us. We've had a great time with our royal tour of New Zealand and Australia but we are both very, very keen to get on the road and get to some new and interesting climes. We're off to ...
More Animals, Sore Bums and Beer
Yes its time to talk about more animals that I've been seeing on my travels. I promise there aren't many left in Australia that I haven't seen now so maybe I'll stop talking about them soon. So this time we were just wandering to Alexandria Bay (a ...
Brissy!
... super sweet to open their doors to me. When I arrived on Friday, I called Sanford who is the owner/director of Cheersport Australia. He coaches a few teams as well as runs cheer programs in the Brisbane area for Phys Ed classes in schools. I met ...
Bris-Vegas or Bris-Eattle?
... has probably never been to Las Vegas. And they've definitely never been to Seattle! Because thats what Brisbane is, the Seattle of Australia. Not that thats a bad thing. I liked Seattle. And this definitely has that kind ...
Overnight in Brisbane
... closed. We originally wanted to fly directly to the Gold Coast (i.e. Surfer's Paradise) but a flight there was about double of what it would be to go to Brisbane. The next morning we left on a Greyhound for Surfer's Paradise at 6:30am. ...
Ati, mami, ideja!
... časih je bil namreč mehanik pri Formuli 1, ona pa je tam natakarica, tako da sta še danes velika fana F1. No, Brisbane je po dolgem času spet večje mesto, kjer je javni prevoz hudo drag (4,6 AUD za dvourno vozovnico). Zanimivo je ...
Coming full circle
Well, I ended up back in Brisbane, where this whole tour of Australia began. It was just cheaper to fly from here than Sydney. And it was kinda fitting to leave from the same city I entered the country. So, off to New ...
Me no like camping !
We got up at some ungodly hour to drive up to the Sunshine coast to visit the Australia Zoo ( where that nutter Steve Irwin is !!). Headed east via a place called Esk, and Lake Somerset before making a very windy way through the beautiful mountains onto ...
Day 16 - A Few Thoughts on Australia
... Mia branded our cozy (closterphobic?) room we savoured some local fare at a pub before an early night. As we leave Australia; a few thoughts. -On the whole about 10% more expensive than Canada -Public Transport Systems are widely developed and although at ...
waiting for the plane
I'm at the Brisbane airport and we have got our tickets and have been through Custom checks - that was like border patrol on tv. Mum brought me a k-zone comic to read while we wait for the plane and she is doing some duty free shopping before we leave. ...
Happy New Year!!
... his girlfriend, we had a great night, roaming some of the bars in the West End and listening to the live music being played. Brisbane is great for relaxed strolls, and eating alfresco. At this time of year, it can be a bit hit and miss with ...
countdown
only 9 more sleeps! we have sold my car and andy's motorbike, bought new backpacks, got a new wetsuit, still got a bit to organise but we are getting there and it is getting ...
Couple Days in Brisbane
... the center of the city. The cops had to come to sort it all out. Despite being the 3rd largest city in Australia Brisbane actually has a sort of laid back personality, you don't really find the pretentiousness that you find in other big cities. Last ...
die ersten arbeitstage
... in ein pub einschleusen. nachdem wir die fahrt mit bus, fähre und noch einmal fähre bewältigt hatten, waren wir bereit brisbane mal so richtig zu rocken. doch unser hochgefühl wurde gleich von dem preis gedrückt, den wir aufwenden mussten, um ein ...
Art?? Really?
... quite interesting (or bits of it) as it had a lot of info about the marine environment and past and present wildlife in Australia, but was rather aimed at 12 year olds rather than adults. The art gallery on the other hand, was a most perplexing ...