Going local - Muwillumbah Hannah got up toasty warm after a much better night's sleep in her budget jim jams. Nik's first words were "you were right, I should have got pyjamas" as he was frozen. Ha. Walked down to the bus station with the big bags, no mean feat. Nik got angry as he wanted there to be a nice coffee shop there and there wasn't. However, we had a McDonalds breakfast - Hannah keeps forgetting to go on a diet. Hopped on the Byron Bay bu...

Brisbane Had a lie in the next morning and decided to go for a wander to the main shopping area nearby to stock up on warm clothes, as there are lots of sales on. After wandering up and down all day, we both managed to come away with some sensible warm items for the remainder of the trip. We also saw an excellent farmers market, where there was an enormous queue of people waiting to buy a bratwurst - its like they don't have sausages here, which we know for a ...

Sailing Day! Had our breakfast yoghurts at the hotel, and then went into Airlie Beach to drop off our bags at the travel agent, before settling for a coffee at Brumby's. We walked along to the marina, and Nik did his usual of getting us there VERY early, and then pacing about anxiously. We spent some time sat in a small ray of sunshine and trying to work out who was on our trip. Luckily, some very annoying people waiting in the marina were not on it. However, ...

OFF TO AIRLIE BEACH Had a bit of a lie in and a breakfast the next morning. One really thin girl had two bowls of cereal and four slices of raisin toast. Unbelievable. A lady from the hostel took us to the bus station by ourselves not with the other packers to make sure we got the bus, and we had a nice chat with her. Our driver this time was no Alan, but he had a good bus driver name - Troy. A lot of people from our last bus were on this one in fact, but als...

JOURNEY TO TOWNSVILLE Got up plenty early for getting the bus, as Nik does not like to be late and was panicked that we wouldn't be able to check out and get our key deposit back. As it happened, the dude wasn't on reception and had to be found, but we had ample time anyway, even with the stumbling block of a broken ATM en route to the bus station too. Got a bit confused as to which bus we were getting, but then there was only one, which made the choice easie...