Monday 1st February. Moving day. Today was the first day of the package we booked up which means we had to move hostel to the Base Uptown Hostel. It was a ten minute walk from the YHA but closer to the centre so we moved our stuff down in the morning but couldn't check in. We decided to give the botanic gardens another go now that we both felt fresh. We took a walk down and wandered around the whole of the gardens. It was 34 degrees again so still really hot but...

Sunday 31st January. I didn't wake up until 11:30!!! I couldn't believe it. It's the latest I've woken up in months. My head was sore but I still didn't expect to sleep in for so long. We didn't want to waste the day though so we headed out to the Brisbane Botanic gardens. We lay under a tree and tried to enjoy the sun but there was no breeze and it was 34 degrees so it was suffocating. We finally cracked and got a taxi back to the hostel as we couldn't find a b...

Saturday 30th January. We were having a pamper day today. The weather wasn't great and we both decided it was what we needed. Any excuse. We booked in at Brisbane Hair Studio which is part of Brisbane school of hairdressing. We didn't realise when we were trying to find it that we walked passed it and around the centre for 30 minutes, before coming back. Typical. The girl who did our hair was originally from the UK and she was really nice. It wasn't really busy ...

Friday 29th January. Today was the day we ditched the Camper van. Neither of us could spend another day in it, it's definitely not something for the summer months, it's way too hot. Before we took it back we went in to Brisbane centre and went for lunch at Jamie's Italian. We tried to find somewhere to eat that we wouldn't have at home but it was just so big and busy, as well as hot, we gave in to Jamie's. We didn't realise how long we were there and had to rush...