Dockside Central Apartment Hotel Brisbane

... extra for bedding, which was the first hostel I’ve come across that did that. I sometimes wonder if I missed the news headline “World War Three starts”, as the Germans seem to have invaded Australia very successfully!

I met three people from previous destinations here, Ameile and James from Glebe Village, and Chris from Port Macquarie. It ...

... in the botanical gardens (Deep Blue were delightful - brissy orchestra with dums, dex and fxs doing covers of bowie, rolling stones and muse songs amongst others!), have been out partying (clubs so far have been cheesey and *****), sunbathing on the (mad made) beach, drinking goon the local cheapo 4litre box of wine made with fish guts and milk (!?) it's the Aussie equivelent to White Lightning, sampling lots of ciders, eating tona of Japanese food ...

... myself - it may be a "you need to have been there" one - but I'm telling it here anyways.... Did you hear about the gay midget? He came out of the cupboard! PRICELESS It really was an end to a fantastic weekend - Easter Tuesday I spent traipsing around Brisbanes river side and south bank parklands as well as city centre while Andrina and Finn were back at work. Brisbane reminds me so much of Seattle (did I ever tell you I lived there?). The old ...

... on the tour with tomorrow. We had a meal at Bug bar and listened to the live band for a bit before heading to the cinema. It was a nice evening but the boys were not too impressed with the film as it was rather a chick flick - but we loved it. 14 th March 2009 Early start for all as today Zoe and Laura were off to Australia Zoo and Daniel on a Morton Bay tour. Having not slept much Zoe finally got up at 6.20am followed ...

... that I was from the UK, the guy cutting my hair wanted to reminisce about his trip to the UK. As he was gay and spent most of the time in Brighton, we didn't have too many common areas of experience, but he told me a couple of very funny jokes, which I shall pass on at the right time! Mike and I got back to the apartment within a few minutes of each other at around five o'clock and had a couple of well earned beer on the veranda, while we watched yet another group of ...

... get to Lone Pine! Once we got there, we went to see the koalas right away, and went to go cuddle one, in case it closed early. Our koala's name was Yurie (I'm pretty sure... I didn't write it down, though :( ) and he liked to look up a lot. After the koalas, we fed the kangaroos... and looked around. The lorikeet feeding was over, but we got to see the echidna, wombats, crocodile, dingoes and baby koala, so it was worth it! Ooh, and there were ...

... started at Mt. Coot-tha, Brisbane's best lookout with spectacular over the city and its surroundings. While there, we've found the time for some coffee and a chat and we've got to learn more about the Australian education and health systems (useful information if we ever decide to move to Australia :-) Afterwards, we got a "private tour" of the Queensland University (both Susan and David are alumni of this prestigious University) which has a beautiful, green ...