http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Cairns/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Oceania , Australia , Queensland , Cairns en-us Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:43:36 +0000 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:43:36 +0000 Dear Grace MagI know I haven39t blogged for a while but I wanted to make sure I took pictures of all different things to show you what my life is will be like in Cairns for the next few months. I39ve been here for nearly 2 months already that39s gone crazy quick. In the first week up here I had a lot of people I knew from the East Coast and it was the last stop altogether before pe http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Cairns/Cairns-City/blog-789239.html 162We got up and checked our of our hotel then walked to the sky bus to get to the airport. We hadn39t walked with our rucksacks for a while it was got work but luckily it wasn39t too far to walk. It took about half an hour to get to the airport and we checked in for our flight and had a McDonald39s for our lunch. McDonald39s monopoly in Oz yay.our flight went fine but it wa http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Cairns/Cairns-City/blog-787698.html Diesmal schreibt die Chefin. O.k. so fngt39s an Wir stehen im Flughafen von Cairns sprich Kns und haben zuerst mal Probleme ein Telefon aufzutreiben. Dieses brauchen wir um die MietwagenCompany anzurufen damit die uns abholt wir haben natrlich wieder mal die exotischste am Platze die nur in der Stadt eine Filiale hat um unseren Karito in Empfang zu nehmen. Frank schaf http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Cairns/blog-786286.html Cairns North Queensland.The trip to Cairns almost nearly did not happen. I had booked with JetStar at 0900 hrs from Sydney and being a domestic flight assumed that I have to go to the domestic terminal. Little did I understand that it was a flight to Osaka in Japan. Luckily I had given myself plenty of time that I could take a transfer bus to the international terminal and still make the flight. http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Cairns/Cairns-City/blog-785856.html Hallo Ihr Liebenich bin ja wirklich wahnsinnig hinterher mit dem Blog... Aber fuer die die es immer noch interessieren sollte hier nun die weiteren Erlebnisse in Queensland...Gestoppt hab ich ja in den Whitsundays ach war das schoen Aber danach ging es auch fast genau so schoen weiter den Tag nach Airlie Beach haben wir groesstenteils on the road verbracht sprich wir sind bis kurz vo http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Cairns/blog-784050.html So this is it...I dropped the bike off at the shipping place today. Final trip meter reading 4795 km. That39s 2997 miles. Maybe I should have driven around the block a few times to get it above 3000... Nah... Haha.I39m flying back home tomorrow. Plane leaves at 600am. Cairns to Brisbane to Fiji to LA. After just about 24 hours of travelling I39ll arrive in LA at about 130pm on Tuesda http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Cairns/blog-783493.html So we were lucky enough to have one girl in our unit not drink on this huge uni party night so she drove us to the bus station you have to blow a 0.00 here. We arrived in cairns at about 2 o39clock and took a shuttle to our hotel which I thought was going to be crap since it was so cheap but it really wasn39t. We had a great room with a double bed and two single and our own bathroom. 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