Hey everyone! This is just a quick blog to say I am safely at the West's on the very very hot Gold Coast, about half an hour from the city centre. Seeing Chey again was great, her family are fab, mad but fab and i have had the most relaxing week, with prob more beer than I have consumed in the last 3 months! (that's not because I'm going out and getting drunk every night, purely because it's just what you do in the afternoon- especially since the cricket is on-...

Hey guys! Well as I write, i am now in Bryon Bay, staying at the hippiest place I have possibly ever seen, but will come back to that later. Ok so last night, sue's daughter, Lesley took me to a place in Surfer's called 'Draculas', think Gothic Cabaret and restaurant, and you're quite close. The building itself is a big, looming gothic building on Hooker Boulevard (yes i know) and every night it puts on a show, aimed at adults because the content is very risque...

Greetings from the Gold Coast! Since Monday I have been living the life of luxury at Sue's house. When I was about 15 I went to a dance school and Sue's daughter, Stephanie also went there. By pure coincidence, 5 minutes before I boarded the plane from SIngapore to Darwin I checked my facebook to find a message from Sue saying she was living near Brisbane. Well, I stopped by for a few nights, and am staying here for over a week! Sue and her husband Barry live...

Hey everyone! I am in Brisbane at the moment, have been here for 3 days and as ever have lots to say, but might run out of time again! (I've now finished the fraser island blog) Ok well first of all, for those who don't know I have changed my route home. I haven't been happy with it since I booked it- I couldn't get a decent flight to Fiji, and to cut a very long story short, i didn't want to do a day and a half there, then have a 20 hour flight home. So i went ...

Hello from Hervey Bay! it's been a weird few days but highly enjoyable. I never thought i'd have to add another species to my list of animals to be wary of, but to crocs, spiders, snakes, man-eating sharks I now have to add magpies. Yep that's right, the common magpie. Walking down the road on sunday morning to meet jetteke at the internet cafe, something swooped at my head and made this horrible squarking sound. I turned around to see a magpie making another f...