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After our 1.5 hour bus journey from Surfers, weve made it to Brisbane. and weve checked into an amazing boutique hotel in the Spring Hill area of the city. Who says backpacking has to be all about hostels!!!
Ill update the blog, when I have internet access next!
Hope your all OK, and Dad - HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! :) xx
Hi all.
I must say, our east coast trip is passing by quickly!! We've just finished up in Brisbane, and its been a brief stop really. Our coach dropped us off at midday at Roma street station, (in the pouring rain!) so we made our way to our hotel in booked in, we stayed at the Portal hotel in spring hill area of the city. Its a cute little boutique hotel, and gorgeously decorated. We hung out in the room for a while for the rain to stop, so when it did we took a walk around the city.
There isn't any sign of any flooding, which is good news. Brisbane is just a standard working city, nothing really going on!! We went to have lunch at 'Noodle box', a fast food chain which both Luke and I became addicted to in Perth, but Sydney never had a local chain, so we were pleased to find heaps along the east coast!! Needless to say, we had built the amazingness up in our heads so we were both a little disappointed!!! The next day was a total contrast to the day we arrived, it was lovely and sunny, and really humid. We were up early, went to pick up our hire car, a Mini Cooper S Convertible.... it was bright yellow... interesting colour!!! To make it fair Luke drove TO Australia Zoo & I drove home.....
Australia Zoo. What a place!!!! It is definatley the best zoo ever, it has heaps of Steve Irwin memorabilia, but its what we want to see!!! We posed with all the zoos statues etc, and spent around 5 / 6 hours just seeing all there is to see. A thoroughly enjoyable day out. But what was most exciting for Luke & I was that all over the zoo were wild lizards all over the place, some tiny, as small as your little finger, some as big as your full forearm, they were really tame, so we kept touching them..... i wanted to pick one up and take one home they were so cute!!!
The mini was exciting to drive, all hire cars over here seem to be automatic, so we were at first disappointed, but it had shift paddles on the steering wheel, so you could use them like a racing driver and it would be manual... it was the 'S' so it had a 'sport' button to press, it was ace!!! We sped, effortlessly and got home in record time id say!! When we got home we both just crashed out, the early start and the humidity had really taken its toll, so we spent the evening watching 127 hours.
I dont know what i was expecting from Brisbane, but im definitely not blown away by the place! Roll on the beach towns....
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