Sunday 2nd & Monday 3rd were spent chilling, updating blog, washing, booking flights, walks into the centre, shopping, servicing TufTuf (where the mechanic gave us his truck for the day with no forms, just passed us the keys J !)....and so on before our road trip no. 5 commenced on Tuesday 4th. We headed to Port Douglas which was a very small, posh sophisticated village where not much was happening so we just had lunch, walked up and down the main street a...

So David picks me up at Monday afternoon and takes me to the kangaroo cliffs...beautiful place where you can rock climb right by the river, day or night. David was feeling rough and I was too so we weren't both quite ourselves; both tired and I was losing my voice. I ended up tagging along to his family meal of sushi and thai soup (both delicious) for his sisters 24th birthday. The family were all lovely. It was a nice chilled evening before we headed back ...

Friday was the end of our road trip...we strolled around Surfers Paradise for an hour and headed to Brisbane. Surfers Paradise is not what I imagined...it had a lovely long white sand beach with great blue sea, but right next to this was a load of skyscrapers. All hotels! It was weird and not much was going on. It didn't take us long to grasp the vibe so we headed off to finally arrive in Brisbane. We found a hostel in West End for Lisa to stay and park he...