After a brief bus and train journey we arrived in Brisbane and trekked up a huge hill to our bright orange hostel. The first day was spent getting our bearings and we have to say that we disagree with everyone who told us it wasn't worth seeing as it's such an amazing city! We had a great time checking out the shops and had a chilled out few hours sitting in Anzac Square. We got the Sea Cat which was very cool to Chinatown, before heading to Fortitude Valley w...

On our way down to Surfers Paradise we had a bus with issues - just our luck! It was having problems with t he gear box so we had to change over buses. The rest of the journey was uneventful and we arrived at The Islander in the sun. It turns out the Islander is a hotel - brilliant!! It was right on Beach Road, so just minutes from the beach. We wandered around getting our bearings before heading to the night markets which are right on the beach. We were very ...

We left Hervey Bay at some ungodly hour in order to catch our bus to Noosa - funnily enough the cheap buses are at awful times!!! Wonder why! After some hassle with the German minibus driver we got to our hostel which was at Sunshine Beach, not quite central Noosa as we expected, but actually we think we were in a better place. The hostel, Dolphins Beachhouse, is very bohemian with hamocks and drapes and candles in the outside courtyard. We had a mini apartment ...