Spring Hill Mews Brisbane

... 8230;Mandy and I drank wine and made a good dinner. On Friday one of Mandy’s friends invited us over her house for dinner. She made roo fajitas! Yes, kangeroo fajitas. And yes, I ate roo! It was actually good. I just had to try and not think about all the roadkill roo I had just seen in the outback. After dinner, we met up with a few of Mandy’s friends and went to a hip hop show. "Hilltop Hoods"….Australian hip hop. For those of you that know me ...

... ber Twilight und so *ggg*.... oder auch einfach nur Klatsch und Tratsch und die dazupassenden Maedls.
Den ultimativen Vergleich, ob sich der Kaffee oder meine Geschmacksnerven veraendert haben, habe ich zwar erst wieder daheim, aber ich werd in Sydney nochmal mein Glueck bei einen Starbucks testen...und dann mit einem Kuchen, den ich schon mal probiert hat... Bauer hin oder her.
Ich hab tatsaechlich grad 2 Absaetze über Starbucks Kaffee geschrieben ...

... in love with koalas they are just so adorable despite their sharp claws! Spent two days in Brissy catching up with my schoolfriend Abigail, who is working out here as a doctor. We went to the home of Steve 'Crikey!' Irwin, the crocodile hunter, Australia Zoo. FYI if you're ever over here don't bother with this Zoo as it costs 25 pounds to get in and really isn't worth it. Was nice to go and see, but its terribly overated and full of awful staged shows with the animals and crocs.

... Celtic shirts had descended on the city
suddenly! Who's next....the bloody Welsh!?! We even got refused
entry into a bar as we didn't have I.D. - sweet!!







On Sunday morning we arose to another
breakfast in bed....although this time, Dean had got wise to things
and ordered Michelle's cooked breakfast for himself too....although
in his half drunk state last night, he didn't realise that he had
ordered 4 fried eggs...... d ...

... afternoon in the library doing internet and trying to escape form a rather special and rather small librarian whose life's aim was to teach us how to use the internet queuing system to perfection. Then we went to Nandos for some food and hossed it to the airport, worrying we were going to miss our flight....which ended up being delayed for hours!


Bye Bye Australia

p.s. sorry for any grammatical errors, the computer I'm on is in Indonesian so apparently every single word is spelt wrong!

... could not land and instead we were diverted further north to Brisbane. So we took this as a sign that Byron Bay was a no go and fast forwarded our travels to the city of Brisbane. Brisbane is Australia's third largest city with a laid back sub-tropical climate but is somewhat in the shadow of Sydney's big city facade. We had a walk around the city but unfortunately the bad weather was catching us up so decided to keep our stay brief. The two main things on our list to do ...

... at his parents, its the first real time we have gotten a flat together which is nice. It is why I am quite proud of the fact that we found a flat and moved in on the very day we arrived. It aint no palace but it is clean, we have everything we need, the rent is cheaper than anywhere else we have seen (although expensive in comparison to flats in Glasgow!) but the best part is the location! We are bang smack in the middle of the action with the city a ten minute walk away ...

... and phoned him yesterday but didn't get a chance to meet up. Last night Ricardo's cousin took us to a turkish place for supper. It was good....except for the lamb. It just tastes so weird. Ricardo and I have made a list of our things we've learned in Auz. 1) Cars not people have the right of way, run for your life when crossing the road b/c the majority of people will rev their engine or sometimes even speed up if they see you crossing. 2) Apparently ...

... eingeteilt war, war heute auch schon wied** für Kanu eingeteilt und Jannis hatte auch keine Lust auf seine Aktivität. Wir entschieden uns, zu Pet** zu gehen (QUT Mitarbeit**) und fragten ihn, ob wir auch einfach nur zum Strand gehen könnten. Schließlich sind wir ja auch schon üb** 18 und uns sollte Niemand zu irgendwas zwingen können, **strecht nicht, wenn man für das Wochenende 220$ bezahlt hat. Pet** war einv**standen und wir liefen zum Strand. Dort waren ja ...

... I don’t suppose it would have been as much of an issue if we didn’t have to hear it for 90 minutes…each way.

Upon arriving at Lone Pine we found ourselves in a petting zoo complex, with kangaroos, wallabies and emus all around us. I bought a bag of feed and enjoyed the wallabies following me around for a bit. They seem to be very good-natured and were more fun than their larger kangaroo cousins. After the bag was cashed we walked ...