Yellow Submarine Backpackers Brisbane

I arrived late on Tuesday last week in Brisbane and checked into the Yellow Submarine hostel. A bit worse for wear but great helpful staff and friendly atmosphere, although it's more of a long term place for backpackers who are working. Got chatting to a German guy in the kitchen and him and another girl from the hostel were off climbing with a local company the following evening so I decided to join them. Wednesday morning I got a text from Alan, the guy I met in Byron hostel, asking if I wa...

Wed morning I booked myself onto a group surf lesson as this was the cheapest place to do it. Unfortunately there was no surf, the lesson wasn't very good as you really need individual instruction as a beginner and I didn't even manage to catch one wave unlike when Tully took me on my own in Byron Bay - oh well. Have come to the conclusion I don't have the patience for surfing as I kept thinking I would rather be snorkeling under the water or running along the beautiful beach. That night I sa...

Brisbane was our first place in Australia, where we took a break from travelling to settle down and live for a while (like normal people...with work and such). Fresh out of Byron Bay however, the looming skyscrapers and stifling crowds did little to tame our spirit during our first week. We decided to start our travel break by breaking in the city, and i will take a leave of modesty to say we did it well. The first hostel we stayed at was called the Yellow Submarine (while yellow, decidedly a...

Autotrader, our Trading Post as its known this side of the equator is printed weekly and like the UK hits the shops on a Thursday. We picked up a copy the previous evening and had already circled potential purchases, crossed out those already sold and arranged three viewings for today. Not knowing that QLD is an hour behind NSW (QLD doesn't use Daylight Saving) we awoke our first seller from his slumber, oops. We viewed three campers today, a 1994 Ford Econovan @ $9,000, a 1998 Mazda E2000 @ ...

Well I have finally arrived in Australia. I've got my passport stamped with a 1 year visa and didn't asked to see proof of funds or anything when I entered the country! I arrived after only having 3 hours sleep the night before and ended up walking around the city in a daze, shocked by the sheer number of people in the city - remember I have come from NZ, where the entire sound island is about half the size of this one city. I checked into the hostel, called the Yellow Submarine and spend mos...

Alex - We got to Brisbane in the middle of the afternoon and immediately set about trying to find somewhere to stay. We took it in turns to jump out of the car and go into a hostel to see if they had any space. I was just coming out of a full hostel to find an Italian lady absolutely screaming her lungs out at Samantha who was cooly telling the mad lady to calm down so she could work out what the problem was. It turns out that we'd been parked blocking her driveway for a maximum of 30 seconds...

We all live in a "Yellow Submarine" - this was my last hostel in sunny Brisbane, Australia. Not much to report on here folks - I managed to catch up on a good nights sleep before getting up at 3:30am to get to the airport for my 8:00am flight to New Zealand!