Up at 06.20 (20.20) British time, the night before, you have got to do the sleep bit to catch us up but never will, its like dancing in time, you go to bed we get up and when we go to bed you still have the rest of your day ahead of you. I slept really well, but was a little unsettled by our visitor last night. The reason I don’t watch horror movies is that I dream so vividly, so I was surprised that the spider wasn’t in my dream, but I probably will have to face him in some future dream/nightmare soon. The night was really warm, but we retired just after 10.30 shattered, but triumphant in our small achievements and happy that we spoke to Shirley and John. Caroline is still sleeping, no ... read more

Gosh today has been a big day for me and Andy, we finally get mobile and leave Brisbane to head North to Alexandra Headland. After breakfast we hopped onto the City “Kitty” Cat to Riverside just a few stops down the Brisbane River, to the post office. It was raining, not very heavily, but still, it was raining, we had borrowed an umbrella from the Rydges Hotel and needed to get in to town, to collect the hire car from Hertz. Caroline loves the “City Cat” a sleek powerful ferry that works on the river. You just hop on pay, to your destination, then get of. We were pondering over the signage to the stop, where we were going to get off, a lady asks if she can be of assistance, and we ask here does ... read more

Today when we went to Streets beach we managed to get our 2 towels spread under a large tree directly out of the sun. We had slathered up in the recommended Factor 30 sunscreen. Again it was about 30 degree’s and very warm, obviously a wind down day for the sun worshippers. We both metaphorically dived in to our books, and I managed to finish mine. Our existence is quite peculiar at the moment, we have a hearty breakfast, to the beach, grab some sun, have lunch, have some more sun, then go back to our hotel room to sort some stuff out. Around 4.00pm the thunder and lightning started, followed 10 minutes later by an incredible storm, the lightning was awesome and Caroline tried to capture it on digital camera, with mediocre results, still she ... read more

G'Day Bloggers It just seems bizarre to be getting up on a November day when the sun is bright and you know the day is going to be hot! But this is a November day, closer to Christmas than summer and people are dressed for the beach. We walked in to Brisbane centre, only 20 minutes in to town, and went straight to the Queensland department of transport. The Australians love their ticket machines, take a ticket and sit down until we call you. A101, (6) that’s us, counter six. We walk over to counter six (6) unsure of what we were doing, we don’t have a permanent address, but do have our British passports, credit cards, British driving licenses. We have filled in the correct form, I know we have been here before. A very ... read more

Hi Bloggers, That dreaded 3.00 moment occurred again today, we had slept solidly since 10.15 the night before so it was not too bad and considering we had a long sleep in the afternoon when we arrived in Brisbane, we probably did not need much more. Lying In bed a while longer we decided to have a cup of tea and Andy wanted to write the blog for yesterday, so I watched a little bit of television. We had set the alarm for 7.00 in an effort to start trying to get ourselves back into a reasonable routine like having breakfast at the right time in some vain bid also to try and knock the jet lag out of us, but again that failed miserably as instead of getting up for breakfast at 6.00 when we ... read more