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We arrived in cairns, our last stop in australia. we were staying at a lovely resort hostel that was more like a hotel. the room was lovely, ensuite, patio door, tv and was serviced everyday. the resort had a great pool and bar and cook yourself bbq restaurant. travelling on a budget, us?!!  we stayed here 10 nights and each day we caught the courtsey bud down into cairns centre. it was a city but wasnt too big and busy. the main high street in the city had loads of great surf shops, and so many souvenir shops! and at then end had a beautiful big lagoon, surrounded by grassy areas where everybody lays, with a long wooden promenade dotted with bbqs. the weather when we were there was raining most days, apart from a few at the end so we didnt spend as much time at the lagoon as we wanted to, but we caught some rays there one day! we filled our rainy days with lots of looking around the amazing shops, we went to the cinema to see 300 ( fantastic film!) and stomp the yard! dont have many interesting stories about cairns but we have a great time there just relaxing at our resort and popping into town. the last saturday night we were there we went to the cinema then for a lovely meal at an itallian restuarant, then the day we left our taxi picked us up at 3.15am to take us to the airport!! it was a very early start, we flew 2hours down to brisbane and spent an hour in the airport there, then back on to fly 3hours down to auckland. we were sad to leave oz but excited that we're going to such an amazing place as new zealand!
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