Blogs from Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 7

December 31, 2010: Day 4 It's New Years Eve!! Fortunately we have Bill Gates, I mean Kamal, to take us under his wings and invite us to this party one of his friends is hosting at his restaurant. Lets just leave it at there's no place like Surfers Paradise on New Years Eve!! ... read more

The truth is officially dead. not, the actual truth of course, that all depends which way you look at it. i mean 'the truth', our campervan. (we didnt name it by the way, it came with that name and refused to change it.) i will explain more later, right now il get back to the last couple days. one day in brisbane was enough for us, lovely city, although damn expensive, but really hectic, and we're in beach bum mode, citys are frightening to us at the moment...... We got back on the road and headed for the signs which read'gold coast'. This is what we've all been looking forward to for a while now, and surfers paradise, our first stop on the gold coast did not dissapoint. the beach is just endless, and the skyscrapers ... read more

Paradise was a little bit of a disappointment to be honest. We had so many expectations but they didn’t fully materialise. We did have the most amazing accommodation though. We booked ourselves into a one bedroom apartment which turned out to be a jewel! From our grand balcony, we were looking onto the main road before hitting the ocean. It was great to finally spend some days putting our clothes into a cupboard and not living out of our bags. It felt even better having the freedom to cook in our own kitchen what we liked and in peace! I really cannot fault the accommodation in anyway. The complex had their own pool, spa and mini gym so was a great holiday home. Surfers Paradise is like the Costa’s of Spain – theme parks, shopping malls ... read more

4/11/10 - Surfers Paradise Off to some themes parks today. We paid for a pass for Dream World and White Water World. It started raining while we were on the bus heading to the parks. We started in Dream World and were like kids in a sweet shop with the choice of rides to go on. I suggested we try the first ride we came to which was called The Claw and was like a giant swing that spun around, it was amazing and I felt my stomach being left behind with each swing. Bobby started the ride giggling like a child then went deathly quiet, it turned out that it unsettled his stomach a bit too much, maybe we shouldn't have gone out last night, mwah ha ha ha! After a couple of roller coasters, ... read more

Made it to Australia safe and sound and have already filled my time with new and exciting things! The plane ride was a long one (26 hours in total) but it actually seemed to go by pretty quickly. I watch 2 full movies and half of two others. It was difficult to read on the plane because they kept it dark and most people tried to sleep. I had about 5 hours of sleep in total which I thought was pretty good. Then we were getting close to Australia (we were about 2 hours out of Brisbane) and then the captain came on and told us we did not have the legal amount of fuel to reach the destination. Huh? So we actually had to land at a french island called "Noumea" where we fuelled up. ... read more