Limes Hotel Brisbane

... over a few beers. Away from the party side of things I have been searching for work not only to have money for living but to start saving for the next big adventure. Now this hasn&#8217;t gone as well as I had hoped but has seen me become a door to door salesman and a day as a removals worker. <br><br>As a door to door salesman it was my job to walk the streets from 11am to 7pm trying to get people to take on the Australian Governments Insulation rebate scheme, basically get roof insulation ...

... long! I was staying at the Crown Plaza in Surfer&#8217;s Paradise, the most touristy/popular beach. I went to walk around the beach for a while totally amazed! The weather was about 32 degrees on Sunday and 34 degrees on Monday, but not humid at all so the heat was just lovely! I walked around the beach for a while as well as the shops at Surfer&#8217;s Paradise, and took an Extreme JetBoat ride&#8230; awesome!!! The boat (which just very conveniently happened to be driven by a very ...

... dependable home for us. It had taken us 16,750 miles right round the continent and through the red centre, through all 6 state capital cities and across plains, deserts and mountains. Apart from the one breakdown it never failed to get us where we wanted to go.<br>We'd paid $29,500 for it in Nov 08 at an exchange rate of $2.40/£1 (£12,300) and hope to sell at a return of $25,000 by a year ...

... can trek through some of the remote and hazardous overland routes. With an 8 and a 10 year old that counts us out. I found a possible route to Paramaribo (Surinam) from Venezuela via Port Of Spain (Trinidad &amp; Tobago) which is closeby. The catch with this route is that if you happen to need a VISA, which Australians do, you have to pay $400 each for a temporary VISA!. Upon further reading I find that Port of Spain apparently has some serious crime issues against foreign nationals ...

After wandering around Brisbane for what seemed like FOREVER trying to find somewhere to stay we gave up and booked ourselves into a reasonable hotel for the night. we dicided to take advantage of this and yea ok there is a water shortage etc etc but we had the BEST SHOWERS EVVVEEEERRRRRR!!!! After so long of communal showers.. having to take you clothes with you... not wanting to be long incase someone else wants it ...

... fun weekend with the family we had first met in Turkey. More play time for the kids, a walk in a mangrove forest and even a night out for the parents, sans children...life is good! Or in the case of our hosts, Dennis (aka "the smuggler") and Bettina, life is twisted...in the course of the weekend we were treated to their references to the legendary (fictional?) giant marsupial water rat, Bacon Busters magazine ("Australia's only magazine dedicated to pig ...

... serve a variety of very nice mojitos (I got through lychee, strawberry and lemongrass while I was there - I was waiting for sunset to get some good pics, so figured I may as well resurrect my recently neglected Alcoholism &amp; Views series), and there's one room that's sort of airlocked away to save the A/C, and probably, now that I think about it, to stop kids from doing themselves a mischief, where there aren't any windows ...

... exact point so I missed the photo oportunity, which meant a Chinese guy got an extra 31 photos of his girlfriend infront of the falls. It was bulging with water as the Cyclone had just passed through Cairns. It was a spectacle. I arrived at Kuranda. Walked around for all of three minutes, went to the gift shop and took a photo for another Chinese guy. Then I caught the SkyRail down to Carins. This is basically a skilift with stops along the way to view the ...

... was way passed our bedtime and we only lasted an hour! It also didn't help that it was 100degrees in there (Steve thinks the devil was trying to flush us out! It worked!) For the day we ended up not on the steam boat, we also decided not to spend $200 on a meal! Instead we spent $18(roughly 9pounds) on a Christmas dinner and we GOT an $18 dinner! We can't complain ...

... for the Wildlife Cruise to the sanctuary for just a few dollars more. Soon I found myself boarding another of the many water vessels I would find myself on during this adventure.<br><br>The boat trip was pleasant enough, but at times seemed more like a real estate tour, with the guide showing off homes along the riverbank and quoting prices. This seemed to annoy Kevin much more than myself, but there are many other facts I would have rather learned about ...