Back to the cityWe woke up pretty fresh on our first morning in Brisbane, so we decided to have a good look round the city. We had heard it wasnt a favourite place amongest backpacker as there wasnt a beach, it did however have a lagoon that was situated next to the river. We made our way through the city heading for the Southbank, we were all surprised how much we liked it here, there were hundreds of smart shops, restaurants, bars/winebars and even a casino.We ...

Week 12SurfersWe arrived in Surfers Paradise looking forward to our upmarket apartment we had booked overlooking the Gold Coast beach, we left some of our group who were staying at the hostel round the corner.  Once we arrived at the Surfers International apartment we had once again cemented our flash-packers label.  Our apartment was excellent with all mod cons and had an amazing view, once all our bags were unpacked it was off to the nearest travel ag...

Week 11Easy, Easy, EasyThe second of the ODI finals and if England could win this they'd win the Commonwealth Bank series, if not it would be a nailbiting decider on Tuesday.  Another superb innings from Colly gave England a decent score to defend.  It all started well and we took some early wickets to put the pressure on the Aussies.  With a forecast of rain and Australia behind on the run rate Johno decided it would be a good idea to do the r...

Week 10East Coast – Surf CampGoodbye Sydney and hello East Coast of Australia. Today we started our journey up the coast to Cairns. We decided to travel up on the Oz Experience bus and part of their package included free surf lessons. So our first stop was at a place called Arrawarra where we went to Surf Camp. We didn’t arrive there until about 4pm so it was a case of bags in and straight into our swimming shorts then down to the beach to catch some ...

Week 9Recovery Still in recovery from the heavy Saturday night/day of my birthday the week started off pretty quietly. A walk around the city during the day was followed by a visit to the cinema to watch Blood Diamond. The following day was England’s next one day game against New Zealand, me and Dal plotted up in the Star Bar whilst Johno & Jacko went to do the OZ trek up Sydney tower, the highest point in the Southern Hemisphere, it’s a need...