Surfers paradise Tuesday 26th January Australia Day! We were glad to see the back of the camp when we checked out in our Aussie flag vests (me eating a bowl of cereal on my lap) and got to Dreamworld for just after 10am. It was strange to see it wasn't busy (although like England it did look like it was going to chuck it down on this bank holiday people will have had plans for...) so we ventured into the park with no line to wait in. I felt relieved to have a...

Monday 25th January I woke up Monday super sad to have to leave the hostel. I felt down again (the alcohol Saturday won't have helped) and just wanted to be back home. The idea of leaving a nice air-conned room with stuff to do in a communal feel place to return to our damaged hot van was depressing, but we had to. We checked out at midday and collected the van from a nearby (well, 10 minute walk) street and then began running our errands of going to Bunnings t...

Sunday 24th January Well it was awful to wake up at 7am after not getting to bed until 4.30am and feeling the heat of the campervan. I rang Nick and was struggling to sleep not to mention having a banging headache. Lisa decided to join our friends we'd been chatting to at the campsite the day before down by the pool while I had some space to try and go back to sleep in the van, I left the door wide open and rolled around until about 12 when she returned and the...

Saturday 23rd January In the morning when woke up it was very cloudy and looking like it wasn't going to be long until it was going to start raining. We drove to the campervan shop in hope of getting it fixed to find that it was closed. Our next idea was to take a trip to Bunnings (like our B&Q) and asked if they could help us temporarily cover the holes up in any way - but the nice man couldn't help and told us all car repair kind of places close on a Satu...

Gold Coast - Surfers Paradise Friday 22nd January We woke up really early Friday again from the heat of the van. I wasn't feeling great and still felt down missing home, so Lisa left me on the phone while she went into town to get an Australian SIM card for her phone which was now unlocked meaning she could finally help me organise things on her phone. When she got back we had another pool day and I chilled out reading Bridget. Much later on that night we wen...