On Tuesday we got up early and got the greyhound bus to Brisbane. Chris stayed on the bus to Noosa so we had to say goodbye to him there, pretty sad we liked travelling with him.  We checked into Tinbillys hostel in the centre of Brisbane and then pretty much lazed around all day, had a quick walk to the shops etc.  That night we went to Tinbillys bar for tea (first meal out in a month - heaven!!) Our friend Greg who we met on the first week came down an...

First day in Surfers Paradise, to be honest we were expecting much more from it.  Byron was such a gorgeous place, coming to Surfers we were expecting it to be the same but it wasn't.  We checked into the hostel Islanders with Chris and all got into a 4 bed dorm.  With and en suite and a fridge!!!  We were rather excited with these luxuries!  First impressions however was that it was a bit quiet but it was over all a nice place to stay.  Swimmi...

So today is our last day in Byron Bay, we're moving on to Surfer's Paradise first thing in the morning.  Byron Bay is beautiful, we arrived on saturday at the arts factory hostel which is basically a hippie hostel. totally into greenpeace, has recycle bins everywhere and teabags hanging off trees (we still haven't worked out why but you get the idea) saturday we basically did nothing but wash all our clothes since they smelt from camping, and we went supermar...

Ok so me and Pam are now in Byron bay.  As you probably know we went on a surf trip which started on Monday. We got up at ridiculous am, i think it was around 6:30, we then packed up, said our goodbyes to the boys, checked out and walked accross the road to the bus station where we were getting picked up from at 8.  Just walking accross the road was hard enough with the weight of the rucksacks!  The bus then turned up and about 14 of us got on and heade...

wow i can't believe we've been here over 2 weeks already! in some ways it feels like we've been here forever .... but in others its like we left yesterday! so friday, we went to the zoo. i got stupidly excited about seeing a koala and drove everyone mad even before we'd left the hostel! we had to get the ferry across the harbour and then a cable car up to the entrance which took you over the top of the zoo. (alot cooler than chester zoo haha) as ...