Hi all, Well, we've just got to Brisbane and Rob Cole (who we used to work with) and his wife Claire have offered to put us up for a few days. They live in a place called Petrie and they've got a great house with a swimming pool! Ace. Day 1 Rob met us at the North Lakes shopping mall to direct us to his place where we had a quick dip in the pool...

Today was a pretty quiet day without much to write about. After a wonderful sleep and brekkie, we decided to hike a bit in Brisbane Forest Park, Brisbane's own rainforest. We drove up to Mt. Glorious and parked at a trailhead (or trackhead, as it's called here). The 5 km hike was gorgeous, and much like the hike at the Bunya Mountains last week....

On his very own trip around the world we missed meeting up with Melissa's friend Simon in San Francisco by literally days, but we would not miss seeing him this time around. He was spending some time in the sunny state of Queensland while holidaying in Australia and we were determined to show him the sights and sounds of Brisbane and perhaps tak...

Cairns is an amazing place. Everyone should come and visit. :)

Jeudi 4 Aout: On met le blog a jour, fait les courses et reprend la route. Au passage de Kynuna, inspires par Banjo Paterson et sa chanson "waltzing Matilda" on se cherche un waterhole (trou d'eau) pour camper. Vendredi 5 Aout: Au reveil, on observe les dizaines de perruches qui volettent d'arbre en arbre. Inoubliable. Le soir, on campe dans un ...

January 5 - Shopping Day After dropping off the rental car, Gerald and I headed to the camping shops. Columbia, Mountain Designs, Kathmandu, and another outfitting store were all within walking distance of each other. Having only two pairs of zip-away pants each packed for our trip (yes Lynn, Gerald's and mine were the same style and colour!) we...

We had the morning service before we left Ayers Rock at a place where people can reserve to use for cooking or barbequing. It was sad to say, "Good Bye" to Karl who guided and drove us throught the Outback. Pam gave him a special gift to him before getting off the bus. Qantas airline is the only airline flies from Ayers Rock. I expected to be a ...

Brisbane will be mostly remembered for watching Ehgland beat Australia at Trent Bridge at nocturnal hours of the day (Australia being 9 hours ahead), and Jules' desire to celebrate the victory 24 hours before it happened. We were fantastically looked after by Jim and Mary's daughter Sue, and both she and Jules got stuck into the grog on Saturday...

Entering the airport to leave was a bit of a joke; as it turned out the security check of our luggage leaving the country consisted of security putting a little sticker on our bags as we walked past them. Luckily checking in early allowed me to bring home almost double to weight limit for the flight. The flight was once again pleasant and I actu...