Oaks on Felix Brisbane

... call by my hotel and slightly hungover from the previous nights drinking I dragged myself out of bed and started the final day of my Ozerland trip. This was it the last day of travelling which would involve a train journey from Sydney to Casino and then a bus trip from Casino to Brisbane arriving at around 10pm. Quite disappointingly everything went smoothly with this and was uneventful but to be honest by this point I just wanted to get to Brisbane to finish the journey, sleep in a ...

... and raring to go and now commencing research into the highlands in order to put together some incredible footage. I was going to try and research each stage of the trip but figure the guides will give us the good oil, and I can just repeat what they say (and film it) and do the post-trip research at home from the comfort of the producing studio!

So if you're reading this - hey!! Have a great few weeks! I know I will!

... contacts??? Let me know.

Otherwise life is good - we're catching up with friends and family and enjoying the Brissie winter (cloudless, top of early 20's everyday....). Attached are some photos from when we came into our house for the first time on our return to Oz, with Sue and Phil (L's folks).

Hope you've enjoyed the blog, but now we're home, the travels are over.

...for a little while anyway...

... maps that Christie found on one of her shopping trips to the charity shops well, what else do I need? Maybe bottled water and some snack bars.

Yesterday I explored the whole home schooling thing with Brisbane Education Distance Learning. You need a whole lot of books, on-line internet access, regular telephone lessons, and where am I going to find these in the darkest regions of the Amazon, or in the remote ...

... one of the highest skin cancer rates & they advertise a lot about covering up & "Slip, Slap, Slopping" on the sun cream but nowhere on any beach do they have umbrellas for shade. In Surfers Paradise they have a great scheme; young beauties, dressed in gold bikinis, feed expired parking meters to prevent visitors getting fines. It is sponsored by local traders & by donations, solicited by these "Meter Maids".

As we suspected, Easter is going to interfere with the unloading of the truck and we may not see it off the dock until Wednesday next week!! I have been keeping an eye on the shipping schedules and it looks like the ship will be worked on Good Friday but the snag is getting it cleared by the local CIQ on a Saturday. Although it's ...

... Einziger Nachteil in Brisbane ist mit dem Mietwagen dort an zu kommen und keine Unterstellmöglichkeit zu haben. Parken ist dort schweine teuer 16 $ für 40 Minuten. Echt heftig. Glücklicherweise hatte das Hostel (The Embassy) dann ein Arrangement mit einem Parkhaus wo wir dann lediglich 16 $ für die Nacht zahlen mussten. Ach ja, kleiner Tip für Frauen, Flip Flops sind im Nachtleben nicht gerne gesehen. Komischer Weise nur bei Frauen, bei Männern war dies kein Thema.

... doing if we go home in March / April, but then also change the Hong Kong part. We thought about maybe changing it to Thailand because its sooo cheap there. And looks exciting enough. The guy in the Qantas office was soo helpful, it was funny, you could see he had spoken to many people like us. He even knew we where thinking of changing from Hong Kong to Thailand because it would be cheaper lol. He said the previous customer he had helped had been changing ...

... and believe it or not, thats a baby!! They can grow to 100kg, it was quite heavey on your shoulders and i made it quite clear that the head was to go up with Steve!! We aso got to cuddle a Koala, (which by the way is the only place in the world that you can cuddle them, it is illegal everywhere else!!) and as you see from the pics she really took a liking to Steve!! Feeding the elephants was amazing aswell,altho they also took a liking to Steve as she gave his hand a big ...

... but also to finally get to a beach! About Brisbane I really think it's ok. It has a real pedestrian zone which is really nice (and they're playing music in the background all over the place) with the Old Treasury Building at the end, just before the Brisbane River on the Victoria Bridge to get to the other side to South Bank. There they have wonderful with flower decorated walks, with ...