Wednesday 3rd February Doing briefer blogs now to catch up! - Good night sleep - I chilled by the pool for an hour and waited for Jess to get back from her creepy one on one lesson of paddle boarding... - Lisa and I went to shop got snacks for next day - The three of us walked to the national park, saw a wild koala in the tree! Thought the national park was really beautiful - Met three of her friends (one of which was Adam who ended up being in our group on...

Monday 1st February I've been a bit lazy with my blog recently so I'm going to keep the next few days more brief than usual. It's been a slight chore keeping up with it especially when socialising more and no wifi! We checked into our new hostel Base uptown to begin our package that Jamie had helped us sort and went and saw the botanic gardens properly. It was a really hot day again but nice to stroll around and enjoy them, we had some lunch there and appreciate...

Saturday 30th January I woke up usually early and was excited to begin our girly day having still recently felt down. We went to Brisbane School of Hairdressing for our appointments where a lady who was originally from Manchester and has been in Australia for the last 8 years did our hair highlights for us. We both let it naturally dry and it was $70 each which we felt pleased about compared to the other hairdressers. Afterwards we went off to get our nails done...

Brisbane City Friday 29th January We woke up at the YHA, I was pleased to have had a good nights sleep with a lovely air-conned room. We had the long task of emptying all our stuff out of the van before we could return it so were up and down in the lifts sorting it all out until it was back as we found it (minus roof vents). We then decided to go for a wonder around town and get some nice lunch to treat ourselves before returning the campervan. I also needed to...

Surfers Paradise onto Brisbane Wednesday 27th January I got up early and went to watch the Kardashians feeling very hungry as Lisa and I had failed to get any food in the day before. Thankfully one of the guys - James I think it was from the UK who'd been chatting to us the night before offered me one of his fried eggs while I was waiting for nick to call. When Lisa woke up, we went for breakfast at nice cafe where we were left confused over salt in a pepper s...