Sapphire Resort Brisbane

... station and put our money in the machine to get a ticket to the other side of the city, however it did not give us any change. We went to complain but there was nothing they could do so we rang the transport line. After about 10 minutes on the phone to them (and half an hour since we had put our money in the machine) our change dropped out which we were glad about, however our phone call had cost 10 ...

... 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 ...

... how u miss ur own space when u have to share with foreign strangers for so long, so iv booked myself a private room in auckland for 2 nights, only 20 quid but thats a bit more than i have been paying, but it will be worth it to chill out for a bit without having to make awkward chat with a german! They are going to love me at 5am when i wake them up to go to the airport!<br><br>So farewell aus, and farewell readers who are bored of this long entry by now... xx<br><br>

... turned into a serious sleep that required a huge effort to shake off an hour later than scheduled. Then we knew we were back into northern Australia - into Coles in broad daylight at 5:30, out an hour later in the pitch black night. We were home.<br><br>

... old pub called The Ploughman's Pub. We are really making our mom's fill up on beer. Afterwords we took the River Cat up and down the river and watched the sunset. We checked into our new hotel and went back down to the riverfront and had dinner at a place called Friday's - but much different from the one back in the US. We sat outside under the stars and looked out over the water. One of the best meals yet. Glad to see that we are ...

... next town, Broadbeach, which caters for old wrinklies like us. These miles of beautiful golden sands are ideal for surfing as the waves come rolling in from across the South Pacific but you can't swim in the water, it's too dangerous. They have tiny "safe areas" between flags, which are patrolled by Lifeguards, but all the rest of the beach is out-of-bounds. Another thing that puzzled me was that Australians ...

... off half way through the journey by paramedics. We also had a delightful hippie chick, who knew absolutely everything about everything about everything and let everybody know it, and her two delightful, full of energy children! We were very tired folks upon arrival into Brisbane. Once there, we were greeted by a very drunk aboriginal gentleman, who after we denied to make a donation to his ...

... by a leading retired criminologist, and smuggling and customs avoidance, along with an insight to life in prison ( I suppose one can lead to the other if your not careful ha ha) given by a retired Customs officer whose also a retired JP, and a member of the prison board of visitors. It wasn't until I started to write this that I noticed a theme to the lectures I attended, I'm sure one if not all of the lecturers would have me as a marked ...

... favorite thing about Australia. Weston, he liked the splash park on the Strand in Townsville, and Sienna her favorite part was Aaron (and she said this all on her own). So thank you for joining us on this Australian adventure. We figure that we have travelled approx. 8000 km's since we arrived, and only seen a fraction of this vast continent. Hope you have enjoyed hearing a little bit about our trip, the sights and sounds of the tropics. We are going to miss it here.

... place called Bunnings.. I think he misses Newplan a little bit now ! Getting up at 4:30am / 5am has been a bit of a challenge for him lol And I have had a few emails from Office Agencies about work as a Temp in January .. ! We might be able to afford to eat again soon ( only joking things arnt quite that bad yet !) Best Wishes to everyone for 2009 !! xxxxx