After a bit of a traffic jam, we arrived in Brisbane, dropped off at the coach terminal and for the first time we didn't have a hostel bus coming to pick us up. It's a tad different in a city, because in a sleepy little surf town they know the greyhound bus schedule so they just wait there on the fluke that people are coming to their hostel. ANYWAY, there I go sidetracking again, we got our google maps out and started to find our way, we entered a huge old buildi...

Noosa Noosa Noosa!! Beautiful Noosa, it was described as the Chelsea of Australia and it really was. Jack picked us up in his dads rather flash Mercedes, it was an insight to what the next few days was going to be like! It was so nice to have another reunion with a fellow LOCOG'er (just like when Anita came), we loaded up the car with our ridiculous amount of bags (now averaging on carrying three bags each, hello broken back), Jack took us on a little drive aroun...

We arrived in Hervey Bay, this is where we were staying before our trip to Fraser Island, one of the packages we booked in Cairns. The trip is a 3 day camping, walking, 4x4 driving exhibition, I had reservations about this one as camping in Australia is very different to the previous camping I've done before in the UK and France. We had a group safety meeting, filled out paperwork and was briefed on the next few days, it was a good chance for us to take a look at...

Oh my, I didn't think that bus journey would ever end, I was seriously uncomfortable, long legs are not made for long coach journeys. Especially not an overnight 10 hour ones, it seemed everyone on the bus was asleep but me, I was sitting next to Vidal and she was curled up like a ball for the majority of the journey, bless her. I was very happy to see the sign' Welcome to the surf town of Agnes Water and 1770'. As soon as we got in our dorm room, I needed sleep,...

Airlie Beach!!!!! I was so excited to come here, heard so much about the party town and the Whitsunday's trip. We arrived at around 3pm, it was roasting hot, we each had our rucksacks and an extremely heavy bag in each hand, the sweat was like a waterfall down my stomach (oh and I hear its snowing back home), after walking from one side of town to the other, we arrived at Beaches Hostel, a group of Danish people from Asylum, our Cairns hostel, told us to stay the...