Surfers Beachside Holiday Apartments Surfers Paradise

... of the toilet, and fell over an old lady, but after just over 21 hours of solid flying i arrived in Brisbane where i saw Jen, Mark and their friend Larissa who was picking me up. It was fantatic seeing her again :) and made the flight totally worth while. I got to sufer's and went into the flat totally feling weird about being on the other side of the world, chatted for a bit and fell asleep exhausted on the sofa bed. Yesterday Mark ...

... do do a free bus into town). They had some tacky stuff, as you'd expect, but a few really cool things as well, like blown glass dolphins on pieces of brightly coloured coral, pretty Chinese paper lanterns, a display of completely wicked and hilarious badges, and my personal favourite, these magnets and cards that were photographs of words written in the sand (like I ♥ Australia, or For My Mum or whatever), with a few flowers, shells, bits of coral ...

... built up, we don't know about you but we imagined a lovely golden stretch of beach with a relatively small, humble town behind it! We were wrong, there are more highrises than London!(Not an exact fact!) and they're building another one that is gonna be 77 stories high! We thought it ruined the scenery a bit! On the up side surfers is more accredited now for its shopping, which we highly agree with! And it was ...

... impression of Surfers was the huge skyscraper residences all along the coast. Haven't seen anything like that anywhere else in Australia. Didn't do much for the rest of the day apart from do a bit of research as to what we were gonna do in Surfers over the next couple of days. It was a bit of a waste of a day but we were too hung over to do anything else.
We decided to do the combination of Dreamworld Theme Park and White Water World the next day. We got ...

... beatiful stilted house that Shane built with huge ceilings, varied rooflines, antique - salvaged windows, and a Balinese feel (or so I was told as we haven't been there yet). It was a really special place and sat on an old banana plantaiton with huge views and only one other house in sight. Shane said that it was more about the veranda than the inside, and I'd have to agree with him as we sat out on the veranda drinking good wine and eating Julie's deliciously home ...

... about laughing at this. As we arrived, the first thing we saw was an old couple, late fifties or sixties arguing. she then proceeded to call him all the names under the sun and kept punching him round the head. they were both stoned out of there nut....again we fell about laughing at this aswell. Every 5 yards you walk you are offered space cookies and dope. We got to see a 100 meter waterfall. How weird is this, we were at the top looking over the platform ...

At 3.00am the rain fell and it sounded like we would be washed away. By 7am the sky was clean and after a fab breakfast of Australian muesli, which for some reason is about a billion times better than any other, we decided to go to the Gold Coast and to surfer's paradise. It's about an hours drive from Derek's and Carol's but an easy drive along the highway and we got there about 10am. I was not really sure what to expect as Carol had said it would be really busy ...

... and is noisy, it is far preferable, in my case, to what I had last night. Monday, November 20 Today follows a similar pattern to yesterday. We get up early to the gentle sounds of shouting, banging, singing and burping, then walk the 45 minutes into town. We had spotted a really nice wooden aboriginal statue yesterday so we buy it and send it off to our friends Peter and Peggy in Toronto for safekeeping till we get back. After lunch we avail ...

... chips and serving them up in cartons. The food and drinks section is a lot better in England as you put all the food out on a hotplate and you just help yourself and take it to the cashier, which saves on all the queing and arguements with the staff. I managed to sneek out and which a bit of the game, which I can't see the attraction in and was amazed at the state the supporters get in on the **** and are allowed to stay in the ground. If it was a footy game in England ...

... of both destert and subtropical climates to drink my beer and eat my noodles in


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