As I jumped on the Greyhound I recognised Paul, a guy I met at the Blue Parrot just before I departed Sydney. He came and sat next to me and we amused ourselves on the journey by catching up and impersonating and mocking Sean Connery in Entrapment (a terribly clichéd film) on show onboard the bus. It turned out that Paul and I had booked in to the YHA hostel in Noosa. He was on the Oz experience but had missed his bus and was on the Greyhound. His friends from...

Brisbane was my first state in Queensland and I arrived on Saturday afternoon and pretty much got ready to go out for the night. I met up with an Aussie that I met in Sydney and joined him for a night out with his friends. During my travels in Australia I have actually met very few Australians, as the hostels are full of other international people so it was a welcomed change to hang out with the locals. We spent Saturday night in Fortitude Valley (or just the v...