Today we spent all day on the beach at Surfers Paradise. The beach there was far better than the ones on the sunshine coast – it actually had sunshine! From 9am we were out on the sand reading, then we made a trip to the post office to post our postcards and got to see the Surfer’s monorail that went from the biggest hotels to the casinos and back. We didn’t ride on it though as money was becoming very tight and it didn’t actually go anywhere but casinos,...

This morning we had a lie in at the hotel and watched another movie from the laptop called Slumdog Millionaire all about a boy from the slums in Mumbai who won the Indian version of who wants to be a millionaire. It was a very good movie and showed a lot of places we had visited, apparently it is probably going to win an Oscar and has already won an award for the catchy theme song jai-ho. After another shower, we weren’t going to see a hot shower no until Melbo...

Today the hot shower was the most important thing to us. It had been over 4 day since the cold shower at Bondi and over a week since our last hot shower at James. We headed straight for Brisbane town centre to find an internet cafe. The parking signs in Australia are like a riddle at best often saying things like ‘1p ticket Tues, 2p 3pm-4pm etc’ then other small print you can’t even read. We decided to just abandon our van near the shopping centre pedestria...

Today we headed for the Northmost point that we were going to make as we are half way through our trip. We were just going to go to the middle of the sunshine coast and stop but after a quick text from James he recommended Noosa Heads at the Northmost point of the sunshine coast. We headed on up there and had a look around and cooked our last curries for lunch at a place called Coulandra. Today our main goal was to find a place we could shower but it wasn’t goi...

Today we spent the day at Nimbin. It turned out to be a lovely hippie type commune village with everyone all pottering around the main street selling organic veg and fruit and naturally made clothes. We found they had a laundry there too and so for only a few dollars we could wash our dirty clothes and sheets. We chilled out in the hot sun on the grass outside the laundry and bought a blueberry smoothie from their organic cafe. The washing was dried in a dryer so...