Blog : Surfers Paradise We arrived into Surfers Paradise in a bit of a grog - i slept the hour and a bit bus journey so was obviously grumpy, it was absolutely s***ting it down with rain and the lady at the pick ups desk had never heard of our hostel, let alone could she possibly use her computer to google a number for us... We were tierd and grouchy and all needed to go for food...the girls found a subway and sorted themselves out but 'no-bread-livy' went for s...

Blog : Brisbane Loads of people had told us negative things about Brisbane and that we could just not even bother going, but after a bit if google action we had decided it was worth visiting! We were a bit disorganised and only booked our hostel on the bus when we were an hour away! Thank god for the hostel world app and iPhones!! The rooms are so expensive as its a city and were now xmas prices... But we had a discount voucher from when we booked some of our to...

Blog : noosa We were all so excited getting on the bus to Noosa, to go visit Jack M and his family, it was going to be another Australian LOCOG marketing team reunion! And nice to see my desk neighbour again :) First though was the lunch stop, which some greyhounds have and others not, its a bit hit and miss. This one though was at a huge Matilda service station which randomly had a giant kangaroo built in the car park which looked quite Wallace and gromit-esque...

Blog : hervey bay and frazer island The Hervey Bay bus station was in the middle of what looked like a combination between the interchange park at home (the one with Matalan and the pet shop and that) and also some where American... It had s***ty shops and a big target supermarket and department store and stuff... My first impressions of Hervey Bay was that it was going to be the quaint fishing village type place i had envisaged!! Across the road from the Greyh...

Blog : Agnes water and 1770 So officially the longest coach journey i think ive ever done... 11 and a half hours i think it ended up being from Airlie Beach to Agnes water... Overnight. I slept for almost all of it but it was so uncomfortable to be all screwed up on one seat with my backpack at my feet and big headphones on... They're not the most comfortablist things to sleep in when leaning against the window!! I woke up with lines from the cable all over my f...