TIRSTY TURRDAYS!
Trip Start
May 09, 2005
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19
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Trip End
Ongoing
Fraser, Brisie, Surfers, Byron, Syders...,
Australia
Monday, February 6, 2006
To say we were slightly unlucky with our group would be an understatement -- only one girl in sight... who was with her boyfriend! Before we left we were split into two groups of nine and had two other English guys and five Irish guys in ours. Now we've met lots of Irish on our travels and have found them easy enough to understand, but I swear you needed an enigma machine to work out what these guys were saying! They were from the deep south and would say things like "tirsty turrdays" instead of "thirsty Thursdays" (or the classic, "tirtytree ana terd" = 33&1/3). Nice guys, and it was fun trying to double guess what they were saying...
Shortly after Fraser we headed down to Brisbane, because there is literally nothing to do in Harvey Bay. I couldn't help thinking it was a shame we stayed in Sydney for long after spending just two days in Brisie, as it looks like the place to be! Loads of cool little cafes and bars, markets and plenty of decent live music! We would have done more if we hadn't got plastered on goon the our first night, but hey, walking around and taking in the sights was still a good crack!
After Brisie, we head south for an hour to Surfers Paradise, where we spent another few nights.
1. A BEACH!
Hotels, motels, hostels, bars, clubs -- a shite load of neon lights, oh and a cracking beach makes up the Las Vegas of OZ! We were a bit unfortunate with the weather, the cloudy grey sky made the place feel more like Margate in the winter than Surfers in the summer! However, we had a great time after meeting up with a girl we'd met on the Whitsundays, and unfortunately for her she turned into our personal activities organiser -- which was great for us lazy bastards! Weeee got drunk, visited a national park, had an awesome barbie, I went surfing (well, if you can call rolling around on the ocean floor 'surfing')... t'was gnarly, dudes! Next up on our travelling sprint down the east coast, we stopped at Byron Bay. Here we spent an afternoon chilling out on the beach, whilst waiting for our night bus to arrive. Brian Bay looked a great place to be (backpackers hot-spot -- you could smell the merryiguana in the air), but unfortunately we had to get to Syders for some mo-money!! So, after an absolutely frigin' amazing 11-hour bus journey, here we are back in the big smoke and are starting work... yep, 7:30am tomorrow! Err, goodnight.
