Sydney to Brisbane

A relaxing trip worth waiting for: time in Sydney, Australia, seeing friends, then 20 days port-hopping on the Holland-America Statendam...again seeing friends in Hong Kong at the end of the cruise...a quick trip to Macao and finally a long-awaited river ...

My husband Ed and I flew from LA to Sydney, spent a week with friends, joined a bunch of people we'd met on Cruise Critic for a 34 day cruise of Australia, Indonesia, Singapore, Viet Nam, Hong Kong, China, Korea, and Japan. We took off on our own to find ...

This is my travelogue about Australia (Oct 13-Nov 8, 2006) Visit my uncles in Gold Coast and Sydney. Will see Cairns, Great Barrier Reef, Alice Spring, Uluru, Adelaide, Great Ocean Road, and Melbourne en-route. See Narita in transit. Ann.

Welcome to our diary of our time in Sydney, travels around Australia and (hopefully!) further afield.

After almost two years of traveling the globe while enjoying our UK experience, it is now time to make our way back home to Sydney. With a flight from Hong Kong booked to take us home in time for Christmas, we have four months of seeing as much in-between ...

Singapur - Melbourne - Tasmanien - Sydney - Brisbane

... Rio de Janeiro - Peru (Machu Picchu) - Bahamas (Cruise) - Miami - London 2nd leg - November 7th to January 16th London - Bangkok - Koh Samui - Phuket - Auckland - Camper van to Christchurch - Melbourne - Sydney - Brisbane- Cairns- Hong Kong - London

... 6 months. In this time we will tour both islands of New Zealand, work our way up the east coast of Australia (Adelaide, Sydney, Brisbane, Great Barrier Reef, Cairns) and trek all the way overland from Hong Kong to Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand (where we ...

... - was like the wild west in there i can tell you! After stopping off for souvenirs we headed back on the coach to Brisbane.  Was a great day though, well worth going to, but it was a real shame we didn't see the man himself doing his ...

... ). he has bleach blond hair, is shorter than the typical afl player but is scrappy, quick and pretty much scored all of brisbane's points. i knew i picked the good players. sunday was my last day in brisbane but my flight didnt leave until 9 pm so we ...

... we got to drink with one of our evening meals.   Sunday afternoon had us heading back north to Sydney where I had an overnight bus journey to Brisbane planned and Breda and John were heading back home to New Zealand on Monday morning. Day 202 ...

... Bay, Surfers Paradise and a couple of random stops to stay the night in rest areas (ie lay-by with toilet). Made it to Brisbane in good time, and met Marc's parents again at the airport for the next leg of the road trip! Total distance driven Syndey ...

... not due to start until the 23rd of Oct....and I'm in Brisbane now....oh well! I spent two nights in surfers, and now I'm in Brisbane. I have done nothing of note here, and will be jumping on the bus to Hervey Bay tomorrow...the home of whale watching, and ...

... then Ballina close to Byron Bay (renowned for being a hippy area but now more or less just backpackers and surfers). Brisbane didn't immediately appeal to us, the architecture is less interesting than Melbourne and the lifestyle not so good as ...

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... und die Storys dazu). Zu Brisbane: Die Stadt ist wirklich auesserst gewoehnungsbeduerftig und unterscheidet sich voellig von Sydney. Brisbane (also die City) besteht quasi ausschliesslich aus modernen und neuen Gebaeuden und die Strassen hier sind so ...

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... to look and listen. Unfortunately, the square, as well as King's Square further along (location of the extremely impressive looking Brisbane Museum) were under reconstruction so I was not able to see them in their full glory. After going to the ...

... continue the trip and return to the States.  YEA!!!! Twenty four hours later we were at the airport for a quick flight up to Brisbane to visit our friends Ron and Brenda Lovett and spend a week at a beach side resort.  Oh Lord!  Not ...