On the Tuesday me Tony and Matt decided to have a bit of a lads day so we started off by doing the XXXX brewery tour. The annoying part was you couldnt take any pictures so we took them all after in the free drink section. But the brewery itself was quite large and as you would expect a bit smelly at times. The tour guide wasn't the best, he even admitted to rushing parts and couldn't get the group to ask any questions which made it feel a bit more awkward. The cool part was when we were shown how the packaging works for bottles and cans which doesn't sound much but when you see all the machines doing all these small jobs perfectly in quick succession it was quite amazing. Like even special machines to push 8 cans in a box at the perfect time every time over again for hours on end and they stick like 100,000 labels on bottles every hour or something stupid like that.

You get given a voucher that entitles you to 4 free drinks at the end of the tour, and in the bar area he explains there are four different types. XXXX bitter- nice! XXXX gold - wasn't worth trying only 3.5% XXXX summer - nice! And two pale ales, one which was lush and the other that taste of burnt toast.

Straight after the tour we went off to dominos, can't go wrong for a 5 dollar pizza since some places charge you 4 dollars for a slice! Perfect for after a few beers, gets you hungry when you drink and we were feeling slightly lightheaded.

James bond after and the really weird thing about it, I dunno if they do it for every film but nobody is given a seat, you have to turn up early and be the first in the queue so by time the doors open there's just a massive flood of people, if your a couple turning up late you wouldn't expect to sit together. Also Australians make stupid noises during the films. When bond first appeared there were women around the room that went "woo!"

Afterwards I went to meet a guy in the hostel called Jonny, who I needed to find out the crack for a job I would be doing tomorrow, he told me just to meet him in the morning and get the bus through with him to the place then told me the real crack....

I'll be working for a bunch of gypsies, won't be able to understand a word of what they say. 100 dollars a day of hard labour, they offerered Jonny 250 to have a fight with their father who has two names, miles his real name and then Steve his work name, and an extra 750 if he gets him on the floor, and hes a fat bloke, walks around with his top off all day while him and his two sons just lay around doing nothing watching you work and if you slack they tell you to pick it up, and also ghost box with trees to practice fighting, can't say this helped motivate me to go in the next morning but I thought I well I'm in Australia it all about the experience. How often will I get the chance to work with travellers.

Got the bus through to the area we were working at, logan road about 20 minutes out the city centre, probably on the suburbs and arrived at an old woman's house.

We Waited around for about half an hour for the travellers to turn up, and because of how far the job was done I was told to start sandpapering a rail on the side of the house, me and this French guy who could speak English alright but never bothered speaking got to work on it. Just moments later a young lad who must have been about 21 walked round and said "your doing a grand job there boys" I could see that they were all going to be how I was told that all they do is boss you around.

The two sons were ok to speak to, I could make out what they were saying, one called paddy, typical traveller name . Then the father came round, Steve/miles, he was about as tall as me but his belly was absolutely massive, like full on preggers, took his top off every now and then to show it off as his t-shirt tan, told me to start sanding the front of my house down, lucky for me there was a wasp nest right next to where I was working but I somehow managed to dodge it.

By around 9am they had left us to work, and 11am they turned up with a loaf of bread, few bottles of water, pack of cheese, then Ham and told us it was our dinner, free food is always a bonus. Then for the whole 8-9 hours, basically from 8-5.30 without hardly any break I spent all that time with sandpaper in my had rubbing all day long, didn't have my iPod either so it got incredibly tedious.

We had to stop a little earlier because a storm was approaching and you can't use scaffolding or ladders at that time so we stopped. Steve turned up and we got in his car and he drove us to the nearest bus stop. Weird thing was instead of giving us the money in the car, which was a crisp 100 dollar bill which I saw for the first time, inside the car, he got out and walked behind the car and shook our hands and gave us the money. Told Jonny he only needed him the next day and to be honest I was quite glad because I dont think I could be arsed with anymore of that crack.