Explorers Inn In Brisbane

... seat on the plane back home to Finland. :/ but it's just so gooood.

Allright so this week is gonna be awesome, on thursday we have a welcome party for all the students, and on saturday it's Gold coast time! beaches and whale watching (and dolphins) and a week after that I'm gonna learn a little about surfing.

Good day today. I like this place, really!

oh yeah, I will put in the pictures as soon as.., sorry :)

... and our time was limited. That was the downside of a very interesting cruise, the fact that we could have spent far longer watching the koalas in particular. They were so cute.

Hughie's nephew and his wife and children had invited us to a BBQ tea, along with his brother, sister. No sooner were the steaks cooked than the lightning and heavy rain started! It was off again by the time we left for home.

... dash, the only view being the squashed backsides of varieties of outback wildlife and the occasional Kangaroo-shaped projectile, disappearing into the bush. So the saga continues. We reckon that six months should be enough, just so long as we can escape Brisbane. Still we reckon this is not a bad place to be stuck. Better than, say, Chelyabinsk. Oooops should not have said that!!

Hi all First of all, sorry Nicky and Paul - the waitress told us the champagne was from my mum so I didn't mean to exclude you. Thank you both so much, it was a wonderful surprise. This post is coming from Fraser Island, off the East coast of Australia. Our last night in Sydney was fabulous - we had a seafood platter and sparkling wine from the Yarra Valley at the Sydney Cove Oyster Bar, right next to the Opera House so thanks ...

... No children were dangled over the croc as bait but it was a good show and in particular we all enjoyed the sight of the beautiful parrots and other exotic birds, which soared around the stadium on command. The weather had got steadily warmer during the course of the morning and even Hazel had to admit that once the thermometer hit 30+ it was no longer "freezing' and she could probably take off her fleece! We had a ...

... left at 7:45am... so we took a taxi to the bus station (as we learned on our first day, it is not a good idea to walk with all of our luggage to the Roma St. Station!) We saw Taylor there, since her bus left at 7:30. Poor girl... she doesn't even get to live on the coast and has no friends out there. Our bus ride was 5 hours and 25 minutes long... it wasn't too bad, but it was fairly busy so we didn't always have seats to ourselves. Lisa sat with ...

... our experience so far that no one can resist Romanian grilled, skinless "mici" sausages combined with a Romanian-Greek salad, regardless of their nationality. It should be mentioned here that during the long dinners we shared with our hosts we carried interesting, sometime quite heated, conversations on a multitude of subjects and we sure had a lot of fun in doing so. We also learned a lot about Australians, Australian society and the way they see the ...