Well, it's the final stop for me on the trip, back in Brisbane for a week.When we arrived at our hostel we discovered we didn't have a room and would be kipping in the telly room for the first night. Bit of a s***e state of affairs at 7pm to not have a room ready like, but apparently there was a c*** up so we just had to get on with it. To be fair they made beds in it for us and we got a free drink at the bar, so it wasnt all bad! We headed straight out that nigh...

Right then, Airlie Beach.. Don't really know what to say about this place to be honest. It was canny, but we spent a week there and didn't do the Whitsundays due to lack of money. Most people there seemed to consider this a crime!We quite honestly didn't get up to much, as it's a small place and mainly used as a 2 night stop off for the Whitsundays, so all you can do, again, is drink! Our hostel was huge but it was a bit naff, we got robbed on the first night, S...

Right, I'll start by apologising for not doing this for a while. I actually completely forgot I had it so I'm about 3 steps behind now!After leaving Cairns and having a night in Townsville (crap, full of jumpy jacks and squaddies) we took a 20 minute ferry over to Magnetic Island. The original plan was to stay for a few days and see if it was any good, and if it was, extend the stay.After arriving we took one of only 2 taxis on the island (!) accross to our hoste...

Hello hello!Well, we made it to Cairns after our 30-odd hour bus journey. It was easy enough really, passed by without much incident, apart from noisy Chinese people and a burst tyre in the middle of the night..We got into Cairns around teatime and got a taxi straight out to our hostel, which was more like a resort really, pool and a bar and all that. Bargain for about 9 quid a night (I'd have used the pound sign there but there isn't one on the keyboard!)We chec...

Ahoy-hoy..As I was saying in the last post, we couldn't get anywhere to kip in Byron Bay, so we had to head a bit further north a bit earlier than expected, but only as far as Surfers' Paradise.We arrived about lunchtime, so we got ourselves into our room straight away, an 8 bed dorm this time. It was actually split into two, with 4 beds in our room and another 4 in the kitchen bit so I think we got the best deal there! There were two German lads in there when we...