Lodge in Brisbane

A trip to Brisbane Australia to start the holiday. desination after some travel to Port Douglas and the Silky Oaks lodge on the edge of the Daintree Rain Forest ...

... dodgy as I was in England about a week ago. So now at 5pm on a saturday arvo, I AM OFFICIALLY SCREWED. Before I came to brisbane I booked the first nights stay at the YHA in the city. Well after walking there in the heat with my backpack (couldnt afford a ...

... bars, we couldn't really find any we liked and Marie Therese was not best pleased (I'm the king of understatement) in trudging around Brisbane in newly acquired heels that were cutting her feet to pieces. The walk was so long and she moaned so loudly that ...

... down under bar" wasn't THE place to go on a Tuesday. It was the ONLY place to go on a Tuesday. Apparently Tuesday is Brisbane's calm day.  We then had our daily visit to Woolworths for the day's essentials: bottled water, short bread biscuits, bread ...

We have been in Brisbane 5 days but love it here already. Ive been a bit zombied with jet lag but coped better than I did last time, and managed to just sleep in the night instead of having 5 naps a day aswel ... ! Not really done much since we are going ...

... traveveled up and down the river, revisited the  art museums on Southbank and visited Newstead House (Brisbane's premier historic house - recommend it for intact interior furnishings of 19th century Brisbane) - and had drinks at Breakfast ...

      Brisbane is wonderful. Denise Cadman, one of my subscribers (who works for Catholic Education), met me at the plane and she and her husband took me to the Rendezvous hotel. What a surprise I found there! I didn't have a ...

... ;      443           1.582 Maryborough*** -> Brisbane             287 ...

... a flip-flop kicking re-match on the beach and then went to a fair dinkum Aussie surf club for dinner. We got back to Brisbane, and made a quick stop at a petrol station to clean the evidence (orange dust) of our little off-roading jaunt off the car! ...

... can surf! I also found the first Starbucks I've seen in Australia so treated myself to my first Southern Hemisphere Frapuccino! I arrived in Brisbane on Friday and like I said, it was a bit of a culture shock for me to be back to the hustle and ...

... and beach called Streets Beach for a quick paddle, and then explored the market stalls in Sydney Street, followed by a spin on the Brisbane Wheel (a white ferris wheel that shows you the sights of the city - not quite the London Eye but still fun). We ...

... I was given a birthday cake from Manuel, Doerte and bob. Thank you. Even had 23 candles, very impressed. We then left to Brisbane short journey up the coast. Once here met up with Nick and Vicky who are an English couple I met in Sydney and Alan my ...

... 've had is that it seems Australians don't work, they just go to the beach....ah, to be an Australian! After Noosa we went to Brisbane. It's a nice, clean city that would be good to live and work in, but there's not much to do there other than shop. We ...

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... goods, and arts and crafts. The market is surrounded by New Farm Park, with gardens, sports facilities, and the Brisbane Powerhouse, which now hosts arts and entertainment exhibitions. A nice-looking restaurant offers al fresco dining and river views, ...

... Brisbane is named after NSW's first governor, who was a general in the British Army and an accomplished astronomer.  Initially, Brisbane was asked to start an observatory near Sydney in 1820.  He went and charted over 70,000 stars...in what is ...

... was part of the Kingfisher bay resort, capacity 1,250 people (!). From Hervey Bay we took the bus straight down to Brisbane, though with an unscheduled visit to the Australia Zoo on the way. This is Steve Irwin's Zoo, also known as ...

... . Another highlight of the weekend was a trip to the Glasshouse Mountains, which are an archipelago of volcanoes a few hours north of Brisbane. We took a train to the national park only to get out of the train station and realize we were in the middle ...

... and most importantly bars and restaurants for 2 nights! 02/01/10 - Brisbane to Lone Pine Sanctuary to Surfers Paradise (Gold Coast) to Brisbane - 182km This morning we drove down to Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary where we got to cuddle a koala. I was very ...

... ale and my beloved sweetheart (the Cornish pasty) and after another family wedding, return to sunnier climbs came in the guise of Brisbane where I'd worked for a couple of months.   You see I'd decided I was over the backpacking malarkey - no more ...