Blogs from Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 20

Endlich wieder etwas auf dem Netz!!!!!! Ich bin nun seit Sechs Wochen hier und geniesse es immer noch wie in der Ersten. Das Englsch wird von Tag zu Tag besser, ich habe zumindest das Gefuehl! In Burleigh hat es einen kleinen Nationalpark, wobei Nationalpark uebertrieben klingt. Es ist nicht mehr als ein Huegel aber sehr schoen. Auf dem Weg zu diesem Nationalpark begegnete ich Bruno aus meiner Klasse. Er kam mit mir auf den Rundgang. Vom Aussichtspunkt auf dem Huegel hat man einen sehr schoenen Ausblick = Fotos....!... read more

On arrival at Surfer's Paradise (the party town of Queensland) we were immediately coerced into going on a cowboy-themed bar crawl that evening, so we dutifully obliged, with hats, fluorescent pendants and many pictures to show for it! Headed to the beach the following day to recover, and although we had booked a surfing lesson for the afternoon, it was rescheduled for the next day, which we were quite relieved about, as we were still fairly knackered (no, not hungover!) from the night before! We actually then spent the rest of the day either jumping through waves, or surfing through them on bodyboards, which was a laugh but incredibly hard work, especially as there weren't too many decent waves, and when we did manage to catch a good one, it often ended up with us getting ... read more

Hello, We arrived in Surfers Paradise and were picked up and taken to our hostel. On arrival we presented our Travelbugs voucher which entitled us to 1 night free accommodation at this place and the manager informed us that as from that morning no Travelbugs vouchers would be accepted anywhere as they had gone into liquidation. We thought our luck would run out fairly soon as it had been a week since we'd found out and we had got away with it until then. We have been so lucky - we each spent $1,000 with them and luckily had just about come to the end of our trips with them so all in all we barely lost anything - only 2 nights accommodation which were free with the deal we booked anyway and seeing as we ... read more

Well that’s not what they thought at the Emirates check in desk when they saw him….. Anyway Lisa and Duncan had made it all the way over to Brisbane, after 3 flights and 24 hours of travelling and we were over 1 hour late picking them up! We managed to get stuck in traffic not unlike the M25 on a Monday morning, as we headed the 100km up the M1 to Brisbane airport in the early hours. Despite Duncan’s 2 day hangover they were in good spirits and it was great to see them. The sun was shining and they were officially ‘down under’. We stopped briefly to meet Dunc’s mate Shaun at work, before heading back to meet Kerry (Shaun’s better half) at home in Southport, and then we went out for a big Ozzie ... read more

Jo und Ich fuhren mit den Bikes nach Nordburleigh, etwa 15 Minuten von Burleigh Heads entfernt. Dort gibt es einen schoenen Aussichtspunkt auf einem kleinen Huegel!... read more