Blogs from Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 4

G'day sports fans, So I thought it was gonna be a quiet week, but how wrong could I have been. So I met Stef on Sunday evening, and we checked into our new hostel, Banana Benders. It was bra to have a good night sleep without any loud and annoying Germns. We just chilled out at night and caught up. The next morning we had a lie in and decided we'd better do some washing. What a relief it was to have a clean towel, as mines was pure bouffin after using it since I left 2 weeks before that. as I went through to the reception to get some change for the washers, Nicola comes waltzing through the door. I was shocked. The upshot of how she came to be there, a week early, was ... read more

Saturday 28th March Woke up this morning on my last day in Fremantle and had breakfast with friends before heading to the airport to catch my flight to Brisbane to meet Pippa! My flight was delayed and poor Pippa must have thought i'd forgotten about her as she has to wait for nearly an hour before i came to rescue her from International arrivals! It was so so good to see a familiar and friendly face and we were very excited at the thought of the next 3 weeks adventures. After a long hug, we caught a taxi to our hostel in the Fortitude Valley in the centre of Brisbane. Trying not to wake up our 8 room mates it wasn't long before our heads hit the pillow after a long day of travelling. Sunday 29th ... read more

Had a fantastic day at Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary- loved feeding the Kangaroos- and avoiding the scary Emus. Had my photo taken with Ryan the koala- how cute! Oct 16th Picked up hire car and drove north to Noosa- visited the Glass House Mountains on the way. Nice apartment - very near beach. Oct 17th Walked along the coast- looked for Koalas but they were all hiding! Went to the beach and christened our very cheap boogie board!Good surf! Oct 18th Left Noosa and drove to Mt Tibrogargan went up it as far as we could then realised the signs that said 'experienced climbers only' meant exactly that!! Had a bit of trouble getting somewhere to stay in the evening- went inland and ended up somewhere called Canungra-stayed ina B and B- run by Ray who ... read more

Yo yo yo I am giving u a wee blog just before we head off to the rugby - wooooooooooo hooooooooooo for the rugby!!! So we have come to the conclusion that there is no more sun for us now till the US of A -boo.. and we are also extremely sad to be leaving Oz in a few days.. but less of that and more about our shennanigans. We went to Australia Zoo early on the free bus and got there for its opening. It was a bit rainy but soon cleared. Headed up first to the elephants and the tigers. Then we went on the 'koala walk' and got to pat a koala's arse, very soft indeed. Went then into the red kangaroos park where you can stroke, play, lay with them, they are ... read more

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=26632&l=cdfee&id=503645207 Today I slept in as long as I could. After 11 hours of sleeping I was feeling a little caught up on sleep. Not completly there but getting there. The rain continued all day today. In the two days before today Brisbane had received more rain then it generally did in a whole month. about 200 km up the coast where we will be in about two weeks there was a fair amount of flooding. Back to today, the rain continued to fall most of the day until around 5 O'Clock. During the day I worked on planning the trip and got Mike focused for as long as I could on it. We got a fair amount done on the trip actually. I was quite surprised. After working for a fair amount of the day ... read more