Baronnet Apartments Gold Coast Surfers Paradise

... that it was near
enough vertical! The funniest bits was probably going down all the rides with
Joanne as she screamed at everything from the baby slides to the fast ones, I'd
be in the next slide and I could tell it was Joanne who was doing the screaming!
It cracked the Welshies up lots when they joined us on a few rides too! Oh and
we also spent the whole day on the slides in the rain which was ...

... of place? In a word - YES. First impressions are not good. Every advertisement at the travel desks and at the hostels are for pub crawls and club party nights with copious amounts of booze included for free. Not adverts for Cape Tribulation, learning to surf and scuba dive, mountain treks, sailing trips, reef trips - no clubbing is in fact a tour here. Building it up "Surfers", as it is affectionately known is on the Gold Coast - approximately ...

Had a nice drive up form Byron Bay, putting our watches back an hour when arriving in Queensland. Our 'courtesy' pick up at the bus station was anything but so after quite a lot of faffing we finally got to our hostel, which was very nice, but a bit out in the sticks in the scheme of things. We had an explore and although the place was nice enough, it seemed a ...

... out amongst them all. I wish I could Surf, its gotta be one of the most chilled out sports out there. G was in awe of a guy stood by us, he must have been about 60 and had just been surfing. Hes decided thats his aim for when hes 60 ... first he has to learn to surf, but then he plans to be still doing it in 30 years. On our way back we somehow ended up crossing the New South Wales border getting back to the highway. This freaked us ...

... for a while! We went on an evening tour of the rainforest (called the "hinterlands") of Queensland, Springbrook National Park. There's another World Heritage Listed national park a bit further called Lamington National Park, but we didn't visit that. We saw some AMAZING sights- we looked over a mountain ridge into New South Wales, saw some breathtaking waterfalls and red cliffs, so many wild wallabies and a couple kukkaburras. We had a very excitable tour guide named Ed who knew ...

So, aventually, i don't have many photos to show you because, i stayed only 2,5 days with 2 days of rain ;-) So, surfers paradise, it s some big buildings near the beach, nothing extraordinary but the beach is nice. I took my first surf lesson and i succeeded!! At the backpackers', they called me the 'surfing lady', i liked it but the next day, my arms were so sore..

19th & 20th August Miami Beach (Update by Stephen) Sunday 19th Won't be as professional as Suzanne but here goes. Woke to our first morning at Miami Beach here on the Gold Coast and the sky was looking black and ominous - our elderly neighbour said do you think we will get much rain to which I replied we are not called the "rainmakers" for no good reason. As occured when we were last on the Gold Coast 2 years ago it proceed to absolutely ...

After a lovely weekend in Adelaide we flew to Brisbane in Queensland. This is where we met up with Doug. He had arrived earlier that morning so we headed to the hostel (Bunk) to meet him. It was really good to see him again and he was really excited about getting to Australia. There was a girl called Laura (from Bristol) in our dorm who was lovely and had spent the day showing Doug around Brisbane. All four of us headed to the ...

... pee and couldnt find anyone again!! Rat insists he was looking for me. After many rounds of the pub/club I gave up and danced til 4.30 with some Japanese girls who felt sorry for me! Makes a refreshing change coming here, cos although it's touristy, most of the tourists are Australian, much less of a backpacker vibe. All in all a pleasant few days.

... these 3 aussie ***** in front of me shaking their heads so I did it louder. I thought we played better than in the previous games and I can't bring myself to slate the likes of Lennon and Hargreaves because they all played really well. We seemed to be doing alright until that ****ing greasy, acne infested, gippo, ladyboy ******* ruined it for us. I honestly can't understand why Rooney was sent off and reckon it was the worst refereeing decision of ...