Jess, Caitlin, Tabi, Melissa, Betsy and myself headed to Brisbane for the weekend to go to the Aus Zoo and also see the Andy Warhol Exhibit. Both were great fun!

Brisbane Well this place start my whole trip. We arrived in the late afternoon and stayed at the Palace Backpackers Hostel. We to Surfers Paradise the next day and just bummed it around the beach and the night club area. Went back to Brisbane next day Moved into to the Valley Backpackers Hostel. Fortitude Valley, Where my whole life changed. But...

Entry 12 of a trip titled: Bethy's Gap Year 2008 AKA One Big Holiday!!

Hello, This is my official log of my gap year travels to Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii, Seattle, Vacouver, Vancouver Island, and New York! Tis going to be wicked! xxxx

Loads to tell you all again but I'll try and shorten it down because I don't want to bore you. Before I go any further though, I'd just like to say that I'm almost at the point of giving up on trying to understand these geordie foreigners. For the last 2 weeks I've been trying to teach them English but still they persist in using words like ha w...

Its a terrible shame to hear about whats being happening down at V*lla park this week. I wish I could say that my heart goes out to the scumbags, but I'd be lying through my teeth. All I can pray for is that Deadly Doug stays alive, they sign a **** manager, which should leave the Blues with an end of season promotion party and also be celebrati...

Brisbane ended up being one of my favorite cities in Australia that I would continue to visit again and again. We stayed a few days here before heading up to Cairns. Its just a very nice clean city thats beautiful to look at.

We spent a good bit of time in Brisbane. The guide books didn't have much to say about the place, so the plan was to get out of there as fast as possible....but looking back, we won't be trusting the lonely planet books again. The city was class. Fortune Valley on the edge of the city was a great spot, along with the NormanB on Sunday, unbelieva...

Entry 16 of a trip titled: My Gap Year - Adventures Around The World

Greetings friends! This is the place to keep updated with my travels around the world over the next 6 and a bit months. I will try to keep it updated with news and photos as often as possible but I don't promise anything!!

After a 3 hour bustrip I arrived in Brisbane today at the transit center, the weather is already a bit better then it was in Byron Bay before. After a long wait at the transit center they finally picked me up to put me of with the courtesy bus in Base backpackers. In the middle of the center located so that i can re arrange my flight data at the...

Arrived in Brisbane at 06.00am on Good Friday morning. Thought I had booked some accommodation online, but it seems that the booking didnt work, so for the first time I found myself arriving somewhere with no idea where I was staying. Probably not the best day to have a stuff up with a booking, being the bank holiday weekend. It seemed that ever...

Well after my solo week I was thankful to spot Kerry's beaming doll face amid the throng of people coming through the gates at Brisbane airport, I had missed her lots. We drove straight into Brisbanes CBD (central business district) which is around the same size as Sydney's, and after parking the trusty Molly Duka, hunkered down in an Irish bar ...

I stayed in the Palace Backpackers hostel in the city centre in Brisbane. It is a huge hostel with one of the busiest bars in Brisbane, the Down Under bar in the basement. It was a bit of a dive though and they had to close down on of the TV rooms after half the hostel got bitten by bed bugs!! I met up with Sean to watch the FA Cup final which w...

Peter: Well, I'm gettin' something really special too. And by special I don't mean special like that Kleinaman boy down the street. More special like... like Special K, the cereal. Hey, what do they do with the regular K? And for that matter, what ever happend to K. Ballard? You know, if you said mallard and you had a cold, it would sound like b...

hello number 1 so this is it. im in australia. 17000 kms away from a place that served as my home for the past 5 years. pretty weird feeling all alone in another continent that ive never been to before. the trip was quite alright. 30 hrs total due to timedifference and stuff. singapore is an amazing airport. i wish i would have stayed there for ...

This morning I gain woke up early and went on a walk along the oceanfront park land before Matthew and Jess woke up. After we all got up and packed we went into explore the town of Arlie Beach. We spent most of the morning just lazily walking downtown; we each bought a few postcards. All of us had been craving pizza all week, so we decided to ge...

Well we left Surfers today but not until we had visited the shops, Rach had bought a new pair of shoes and a top and I'd bought new shorts - we need to stop shopping! Travelled up to Brisbane via a Zorbing centre (but having already done it in NZ we just sat and watched the others getting soaked!). Stayed at Palace backpackers in Brisbane, the o...

Not much to say really. Just got a new camera here. The backpackers was nice but very big, but it was right in the centre and did have a nice balacony area just outside my room. Didn't really explore here too much, to be honest I'd had enough of big cities in Australia and there didn't really seem like there was anything spectactular that I was ...

Eh oui, je suis toujours a Brisebane et j'y resterai pour les fetes, car j'ai trouve un petit job qui me permettra d'economiser pendant la haute saison. Bref, un jour semaine, je conduis l'autobus de courtoisie pour l'auberge de jeunesse Palace Backpackers. Ca me permet de dormir gratuitement a l'auberge et ca occupe un peu ma semaine. Comme vou...

Arrive in Brisbane and check into the Palace Backpackers. Right opposite Centrel Station. Stay there for 3 nights then fly to Sydney on the 15/05/05 for 3 nights to view the house in Sydney. Arrive back in Brisbane on the 18/05/05 for the Down Under Bar hat party. You pay $2 for a hat and get cheap drinks all night. It was a Cow boy hat so did s...

Topped up the tan on Surfers until the bus of love came at lunchtime. Finally some ladeyz on the bus! :o) We stopped off to go "Zorbing" - This basically involves climbing in a huge water filled ball and being rolled down at hill - funny as! Quite conveniently I was in the ball with 2 girls which was a bonus! You can then also be a speed bump wh...

Off to Frasier Island for a return visit! I loved it so much last time I was here that I had to come back. April was kind enough to drive me to the airport. My flight left at 3pm and I got into Brisbane @ 5pm. I then had to catch the train to Roma Street where I then boarded a Greyhound that was supposed to leave @ 7:30 but didn't until 8pm. The...

Check out the photos from my weekend in Brisbane, including my trip to Steve Irwin's zoo!!! Crikey!!!

Well this isn't bad, 2 travelogues in a week, i'm well proud of myself! In Brisbane now (well, Cleveland to be exact) after a fun and eventful trip down from Cairns in Mr Jangles. Arrived in Brisbane on a grey and cloudy day and booked into the Palace Backpackers hostel in the centre of the city. It's a BIG hostel, more like a hotel really, it's...

Well, Brisbane (or Bris-vegas as some people call it) has definitely been a riot!! Originally I was only meant to stay for a few days but then unfortunately Joe came down with tonsilitis the day we got here. That then developed into an abscess under one of his wisdom teeth (I know that feeling!!) so we couldn't go anywhere till he was feeling be...

We showed up at the dive centre yesterday morning but unfortunately, it was too windy to go snorkeling with turtles. So we ended up visiting the lighthouse overlooking Cape Byron. The view was outstanding and we must have seen over 15 dolphins. We followed the pathway right to the end, the most eastern point of Australia. It's also a terrific sp...

Now I'm in Brissy, working back at the 3 Minute Angels giving weirdos massages in bars again. Brisbane's okay, but it's like any other city (and me not being a city girl, this is no good), my hostel is too big, and working for the Angels does not pull in the cash that it did in Sydney, so much so that I actually despise going to work because it ...