Comfort Inn Mermaid Beach

... it breaks up the weeding for a little bit. The Koreans are hard to communicate with because they don't speak English very well and no one else speaks any Korean. But they are all very nice. They are all ex-military (because it is mandatory in Korea for men to serve military duty) so they are all very hard workers. They do so much in fact, that it seems to be reflecting negatively on some of the other guys in the house who can't do ...

Friday morning we pick up mitsy the mitsubishi. she is a beautiful campervan outfitted with all the camping and sleeping gear we need. We head off on a two-week road trip to Melbourne. Our first stop is lunch up at the top of Tambourine Mtns. Enjoying rainforest walks, wineries, and quaint mountain villages. We then head back down to the coast. Late afternoon coffee Kingscliff, then just north of Byron Bay for the night.

... dancing and physical comedy. Imogen did a world famous Marie Antoinette inspired striptease, Tiger Lil and Kellie Vella were also great, with the highlights of their performance being the mermaid and sailor balancing act and Tiger Lil's whip cracking and angle-grinding finale. Kellie Vella also did a great aerial ribbon act. Neridah Waters was the butt off all the jokes of the other ...

... decorating the cake. It was absolutley fantastic! Once the cake was devoured, everyone had finished on the kiyak and in the water and everything was packed up and cleaned up it was time for us to go home. We thanked Con and Ann for the fantastic day and then headed back to the Moroccan. When we returned to no 7, I was instantly swooped up again and suddenly Nikita and I were going out to dinner with Gabriella and the crew. We had dinner at a ...

... failed to understand that in Brazil they speak Portuguese and it all got a bit heated at the door and resulted in Amy calling him a "****ing cock" and him telling us to "**** of back to Pommy Land". We ended up drinking in an Irish Bar similar to every Irish bar around the world where I bumped into a lad who stayed at Manly Backpackers, who incidentally loves Surfers. Each to their own I suppose. The next day we ...

... round to ask if we are "finished with the fridges and ****?" he locks them up and we take this as signal to go to bed. It's quite cold heading to the tent and we're hoping that given the tent is tiny, it should warm up soon. No such luck. It's pretty cold most of the night and we're near a highway and also the main airport for the Gold Coast so we sleep fitfully. Currently Listening to - Black Love - The Afghan Whigs Currently Reading - White Jazz - James Ellroy To be continued.

... was doing 119 when pulled over. They normally give 15kph so just over and a dent into my budget for OZ. Which isn't going that well because everything is so much over expensive over here than in South America. Further up we swapped drivers and I tried to ring up for accommodation in Byron Bay, all the hostels were booked up. We had the choice stay in Coffs Harbor or continue North, we decided to try our luck in ...

... of way and we ended up having a good laugh as we both love sport so much. I was only meant to be working there Monday but after some sweet talk and explaining that I'm a qualified chef in England he booked me up for the rest of the week. By 5 I was finished and exhausted as when I work for the agency I never take a break as you don't get paid for it. I headed staright back to the hostel and chilled out with the new English lad in the room over a couple of beers. That was about it for ...

... mall which is built ontop of the water. was a great mall but i wasn't allowing myself to buy anything so we didnt stay there long. after the sunshine coast it was time to head home, grab my stuff and then onto one final event before i flew home...and probably one of the highlights...i finally got to see a basketball game!...not exactly a professional one but was still a basketball game! damien plays in a weekend rec league and he had a game sunday night before i flew out. it ...

... 8' aluminium runabout is a "tinny." Woolworth's, one of the main supermarkets here, is "Woollies." Mosquitoes: mozzies. Cooler: Esky (as in Eskimo). Australian: Aussie. It is not immediately apparent what they would call a locking clip, because despite Pacific Fair's nifty outdoor setting and vast number of places to spend our money, none of the department stores, hardware stores, baby stores or automobile stores we go to have one ...