(sorry no pictures at this time, my connection is too slow to upload them) I awoke early today, as usual, and spent the first few hours of the morning using what I would later learn to have been some of my last free wireless internet access for some time. Checked out of the Brisbane City Backpackers around 9 am and headed east over the William J...

Another overnight, red-eye flight, this time from Perth to Sydney and on to Brisbane. I wised up and dressed properly for the ride. Virgin Blue night flights are horribly cold, almost too cold to sleep. Arriving in Brisbane at 9am local time, I experienced a strange sense of nostalgia. Hard to imagine that just 145 days ago I was flying into thi...

My last full day in Australia. Hard to believe that it is all nearly over. Again, I didn't do that much with the day. After breakfast and fighting with the free and consistently broken wireless internet at the City Backpackers I marched down to Fortitude Valley to find some decent souvenirs. I had no such luck. I did, however, find a nice, non-E...

Well we made it through the thick and thin of south east asia! and what a ride it was! We took a 10 hour flight from Hong Kong to Brisbane with Quantas Airlines, it was a nice flight, already the Ozzie mad mentallity was showing in the flight attendants... After many films and a bit of a snooze we arrived in Brizzie! (as the locals call it!) Got...

Wow! I can't believe that it is 1 Nov already! Time flys! This weekend I visited Brisbane for 3 days. Brisbane is about a 1.5 hour flight north of Sydney. When we arrived in Brisbane Jessa and I were shocked to discover that the trains had stopped running so we had to scramble around looking for transportation to our hostel. After a little confu...

As is becoming a recurring theme the Greyhound was once again late....and rather than the expected journey of just under 2 hours, it took us over 3 hours to arrive in Brisbane! Hummmmm can't wait til we've finished our final journey with them! Arriving in Brisbane was fine, but as our hostel didn't pick up from the Transit Centre we had to walk ...

After going out last night to celebrate my last night in Byron Bay (and still being alive after my diving equipment failed me 15 meters below sea level) I had to get up at 6:30am to catch my bus to Brisbane. I arrived with no hassles and hope to see the Australia Zoo, which Steve Irwin used to work at tomorrow. I'm not impressed with my hostel -...

So they left me, and I left Noosa (which was a beautiful little town with a cute beach!) for Brisbane. I had a flight planned for the next day but I wanted to spend a day and a half in Brizzy to explore there as much I could. Honestly, I didn't really like it so much. Everything closed by 6pm so finding food was difficult. I stayed at the City B...

My bus arrived in the Transit Centre at around half three and I walked to the nearby 'City Backpackers' hostel. This turned out to be a large bright orange building with a warren of rooms. They were charging 26 dollars a night for a 6 share dorm. It was the most I'd paid so far but free internet access was included and it had a fun looking bar o...

Right Guys, its been a while i have to admit, sorry for that, things have slowed down at the moment and I'm just living pretty much as i would in the UK, but I'm still having fun and doing random things, so here you go, this is what i got up to: - Went to Steve Irwins, Australia Zoo, Its where he grew up and was founded by his mum and Dad, unfor...

We arrived in Australia last Sunday at around 6.40 in the morning (pretty much exactly the time the referee was blowing the full time whistle in Paris - damn South Africa....). Thankfully though, the news that we had lost the World Cup final was broken to us by an Australian Immigration Officer named Bruce - damn Australia..... Neil and Toby had...

The evening in the airport had been rather dull. Darwin airport isn't the biggest I have ever been too and there was very little of interest to do. I had been certain that I would be flying out on the 23rd but the question was on which flight? Tiger Airways to Singapore or a domestic flight? I decided on the later and a flight to Brisbane althou...

Greetings. Just thought I would send a Monday morning update for your enjoyment. I arrived in Brisbane at lunchtime on Saturday in pretty decent shape, after my overnight coach journey up from Sydney. Did the usual checking in, showering, eating and kipping routine and then settled down to watch the Scotland v Fiji match in the hostel bar. The m...

Finally landed in Australia last week. First stop is Brisbane, yeh flaymin' galaaa. Excuse me, that's been happening, a form of Antipodean tourettes. I've been told there's no cure. Bear with me. Anyway, after a rather pleasant flight with Qantas, checked into the City Backpackers Hostel. It was pretty hot, although I could have been hallucinati...

I woke up to the sound of birds going crazy in the trees above our tent. They were insane. We packed up the tent and headed back to civilization. It was 7:30 by the time we got back to the car about 3km away from our camp. No rangers caught us so it was a success. We drove into Brisbane and found the hostel. It was my turn to pay so I got the be...

Wednesday 16th November 2005 We woke up this morning with slightly bad heads, I didn't know how Alex and Hayley would of felt as they had to be up at 6am to go diving on the Barrier Reef! We decided not to spend money on the reef as we had done the diving and snorkelling in Fiji which was second to none. We were flying to Brisbane later this aft...