Blogs from Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Oceania

Here we are, chilling at work trying to figure out how to use this freaken blog thing. Mack, how do you feel right now? "I feel like you are taking this completly wrong, we need to make our own separate blogs if you are going to do shit like this" Okay, so now that we have realised the ground rules of this blog, we will get straight down to it. For a few months now, Mack and I have been talking and talking and talking about going travelling. We had printed out maps, gone onto billions of websites looking for the cheapest coolest stuff to see overseas, however we never actually got a date set in stone. Well i have news for YOU guys....NOW WE HAVE MTHER FKERS! :D:D:D:D:D Date of leaving this boring country - ... read more

So after talking with Macca we have decided to go our separate ways....with the blog that is, GOTCHA. God damn im funny. I will be detailing the countless crazy journies we go on, while he will update everyone on the different places we are going to with dates and times etc. So here we are chillen at work. We have just both purchased the latest high-tech sick ass video recording equipment called the amazing "GoPro HD Hero 2". These things are capable of pushing out some serious footage at 1080p: 1920×1080, 30FPS with an 11 MegaPixal still photo camera. One word for these things..... OMFG SHIT YES I HAVE ONE OF THESE NOW. Click here to check this bad boy out. So that is one item off the list. We still both need to get our ... read more

I arrive back in Brisbane in high spirits but a few small things are enough to change that. The first is the fact that I miss my transfer to the hostel from the bus station despite ringing up and booking my place on it. Someone was kind enough to wave back at me as I try and flag it down though which was a nice touch. Apparently they have changed the pick up point in the week that I have been away. Second is being threatened by a drunk Hispanic man who tells me that people who mess him around end up getting shot. I struggle to understand what he is saying but eventually he gets the message that I can't help him with anything and he wonders off. I should probably point out that he ... read more

Hello everyone, I wish I could tell you that I am working on a cattle station now, learning and experiencing the life of a wrangler and earning the fantastic pay that goes along with it, but that would be a lie. 7 backpackers from the hostel as well as myself went down to reception a couple week and a bit ago (in my case I actually leapt out of my top bunk and ran down the 2 flights of stairs bare foot) after they announced that there was a rancher looking for 8 people to start work the next day, earning $250 a day. Now $250 a day may sound suspicious, but that is honestly about the going rate for cattle ranging. The job usually entails waking up ready for work at 7 in the morning, ... read more

Hey everyone! I am alive in Brisbane! I’ve been remiss about updating this since there has been little to update about, but I’ll tell you about what’s going on so far. I arrived in Brisbane on Wednesday a couple weeks ago to get better work than I had back in Byron Bay and there have certainly been more opportunities though many in the commission fields of work. I had been working for a company called 4Gen Direct which is a marketing company for an electricity and gas retailer called Australian Power and Gas. The way the energy industry works here in Queensland (and the majority of the east coast of Australia) is that there is the energy producer (Energex) which produces the electricity (mostly through coal plants) and distributes that along with the natural gas. The ... read more

Hi guys! I left Noosa today and it was raining again but at least it's cleared up a bit now! Noosa was great but not a place you can do much in when it is raining! I ended up having to go to the cinema yest!! I saw Scream 4 cos there wasn't much else on and it was ok but I'd have rather been lying on a beach! Brisbane seems ok so far! It's good to be in a city again for a bit but I loved being in small places too! My hostel in Noosa was so great and luxury compared to others with girlie pink rooms, duvets!!, straighteners and hairdryers in the rooms huge TVs and DVDs to watch so great when it was raining! Though I tried to get out as much ... read more

Hallo Leute, Hier ist der erste Eintrag über unseren Roadtrip mit dem unschlagbaren "No Bulls" Campervan!!! ... und Chris. Es flasht mich jeden Tag aufs neue her wenn ich abends in mein Tagebuch einschreiben will und einfach nicht mehr weiß von welchem wunderschönen Plätzchen wir losgestartet sind. Wir haben ungefähre Berechnungen angestellt und sind auf knapp 12 000Kilometer in 5,5 Wochen gekommen, d.h. jeden Tag einiges an Fahrzeit. Unser Trip startete am 15.02. wo die Magdalena und ich gegen 12 uhr aus Bali in Brissie gelandet sind. Chris hat uns schon sehnsüchtig beim Campervandepot erwartet. (wir waren 3 Stunden nach ihm dort) ^^ Nach einer kurzen Schockphase, weil der Preis des Vans sich mit der Versicherung die wir nehmen mussten fast verdoppelt hat, starteten wir durch. Der Typ beim Vanverleih hat uns gleich mal darauf aufmerksam ... read more

De laatste daagjes in brisbane zijn in aantocht, en stiekem ben ik er wel blij om. Brisbane is een heel mooie stad, maar laten we eerlijk zijn, veel valt er niet te beleven. Onze hostel ligt dan misschien ook wel midden in het uitgaanscentrum, maar daar heb je niet veel aan als je weigert 15 dollar entrance te betalen voor een club met slechte muziek :) Bijgevolg hebben we elke avond doorgebracht in de bar van de hostel, waar we aan de ene kant wel toffe mensen hebben leren kennen, maar aan de andere kant begin ik het ook vermoeiend te vinden om nutteloze energie te steken in 'brief encounters', meestel zielige kerels die denken een kans te hebben bij een meiske dat even verveeld voor zich uit staart:) In het kort, brisbanes nightlife is niet ... read more