Tuesday 26th January. Australia Day! Everyone has been hyping this up since we got here. Most people have the day off work and get drunk. It reminds me of St Georges Day back home. The big kids that we are, we decided to pass on the all day drinking and head to the theme park instead. So off to Dreamworld we went, gladly leaving behind 'horror time camp site'! We wore our matching Australia tops to get in to the spirit of things, which got a few comments through...

Monday 25th January. We didn't check out until midday as we didn't want to leave the hostel. We had made ourselves at home. We treated ourselves to pancakes for brunch at Pancakes in paradise which was just around the corner from the hostel then headed north to check in to the last camp site we were staying at. It was about half an hour away in Southport, but it was next to the theme park we were going to the next day and was cheap to stay there so it made sense...

Sunday 24th January. Ouch. 7am and the sun was cooking the van again. My head was pounding and I was so tired. I dragged myself up and by 8am I was heading for the pool. I saw Chris and Lucas on the way passed and they said they would meet me at the pool. I found the first sun lounger and lay down to feel sorry for myself. It wasn't long before Chris turned up and was laughing at me. He convinced me to get in the water because apparently it would help. Lucas ca...

Saturday 23rd January. It was another temperamental day with the weather, we didn't actually realise how unpredictable it could be in Australia in the summer. It reminds me of the times I've been to Orlando Florida and you get a day of sunshine with a random burst of tropical rain. Luckily we had things to be getting on with that meant it didn't matter what the weather was doing. We drove to find a car garage to access the damage to the van but everywhere was cl...

Friday 22nd January. The sun woke us up at 7am because the camper van felt like an oven. We were both fuming, but got up and started the day. I went in to the centre on the bus on my own about 08:30. I was chatting to a local old lady at the bus stop who was really friendly. The people here seem to be a lot more approachable and friendly than they are at home which is comforting when you are so far away from home. I went to the Optus shop to get an Australian SI...