Arrival The bus journey from Surfers to Brisbane was relatively quick, mainly because we slept like babies. We were soon stretching our aching muscles at the Brisbane Transit Centre in the warm Queensland evening. We had phoned up and booked a cheap deal with Brisbane City Backpackers, a central hostel in, surprisingly enough, the city of Brisbane. We stumbled about with the weight of our bags up to the hostel using rough directions from the Scottish receptionist, who oddly enough knew another Gary Stewart from Scotland that was in Australia. We checked into our 8 bed dorm which was pretty nice, but loud! The hostel had a faux Irish bar literally beside our room and the noise was perpetual. The morning and evening barbeques were nice, but the place seemed to be trying really hard to
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