Oaks Festival Towers Brisbane

After living in Queensland for the last few years, the time is now approaching where I will set off again and explore more of this incredible continent . I'll kick off with a visit to my own country of birth, Ireland, for the Christmas season. After much needed time with family and friends, it will be back to Oz in January to start again. <br><br>From the 16th January it will be time to don the backpack ...

... flights had been cancelled or changed...FUN!!!!<br>Met some great people working there...Hayley , Bex , Lou!! Love them!! Bex AKA Smack Rat is stalking me and i will be staying in the same hotel as her in Phuket for the week i am there!! CANT WAIT!!!<br><br>Also met Shane (who was Andrews cousin) He was awesome and became my personal tour guide and drinking buddy. We went to bbqs at his friends houses who were also ...

... is all right with me, I don't want to step on it while putting on my shoes in the morning. <br><br>I have travelled on to Sydney as I mentioned, went with the night train. It was a long way and I suddenly remembered why I don't travel with night trains anymore. Energetic kids with nagging mothers and all kinds of weired noices. Anyway, I am in Sidney, and I live in the Kings Cross area and I wonder why I know the name Kings Cross from before???<br><br>

... beside which neither of us have flowing hair to blow about in the wind of an open top! &#8211; and off down the road we went. It was a very straight long road...suited us...only 60km limit...and only two lanes...one of which a bus would dive into to pick up people and immediately pull back to the far ...

Right where to begin? Adsy, Dani and Bec all came down to see me off and make sure I actually left, the way i was feeling if they hadn't been I probably wouldn't have! Good old case of nerves, worst than when I sky dive!!! Once the plane started moving tho I was all good. <br>At the airport, Gavin the Kangaroo was born and he will be ...

... are encouraged with the boys. The next day we left the boys in our second Ford Falcon station wagon, which we named Ayla for obvious reasons, heading south down the coast to Surfers Paradise. Man I tell you those kiwi's def come through, here we stayed with my good friend from Auckland, Sam. The layout was great and I can't believe his roommates agreed to this: 1 couple from South Africa, another guy roommate from South Africa, another girl and Sam from Auckland. So in this ...

... up, getting rid of our Baht in the markets of Khao San. But all good things must come to an end and we got in our cab for the supposedly hour and a half ride to the airport. We were just cruising along and out of no-where our cabby got the need... the need for speed! It is a four lane highway, but when it's still congested, everyone else is travelling at 110km/h and you are going ...

... milling around; just having a good time; was a Pig and Whistle Restaurant. It was mostly an outdoor café that server beer and meals for the passing multitudes of Sheila's and Bruce's which is the name Australians call young girls and guys. We stopped and asked for a recommendation on the best local beer. That was XXXX's Gold. So we order some along with a dish of chips as a snack. We sat there sipping on the beer, munching on the chips, watching the people walk by and ...

... art to a practical joke but I would love to know why it is there and who put it there. We got to the domestic terminal with loads of time to spare, but soon found out that the luggage belts had broken down so, once we had checked our bags in, we had to lift them off the check in area and lug them across the airport to be security checked and then stash them in ever growing piles, in the main lounge under A4 pieces of paper stuck on the wall showing the flight number and ...

... up with my blogs .... At least to some extent. Halfway through the week we received an email from our hostel in Byron Bay where we had booked to spend Christmas. Finding a hostel and one that was in some way reasonable had been tricky but after days of searching back in September, October we settled on this newly opening hostel as we thought given that it was opening on December 1st that they might make a big effort for their first ...