Back to good old Sunday blogging again at the internet cafe in the city!Weather is a bit nicer now - some warm sun at last!! All the Brisbane folk are desperate for rain though as they have only had 6ins in the last 5 years and we are on level 5 restrictions, if level 6 comes into effect in October, it's shower sharing time - seriously!!Yesterday we did another tour - this time to Mt Tamborine and Lamington National Park (Sub Tropical Rainforest) We drove up ...

Hi All, Well I am back again with my third blog!!! As C said we nearly missed the boat to our Koala adventure. Not only was I getting sweating but my feet were getting sore as I had to take my flip flops off to run across the Bridge. Felt like they were getting carved up. Typical tourist me!!!! The Koala place reminded me of an average mans life. You are born as a Koala from your mother in the dedicated Koala Mum and Baby room (Little France Hospital). You s...

Hello to all!We have had quite a busy weekend this weekend. We got up early yesterday (Saturday) to catch a cruise from North Quay on Brisbane river to go to the Koala sanctuary. The lonely planet guide book said it left at 10am fron\m North Quay - the opposite side of the river to where we live so we left in plenty of time and got there at 9:50am. But there were no signs about the Koala centre at the pier just times for the city ferry cat service, Iain asked at ...

HeyJust thought i'd blog my nightmare day of yesterday.Well i got ask to go to the Supreme court to lodge docs for a solicitor but he didn't ask me to go until 3:50pm and the court shuts at 4:00 - well i ran so fast as it's a good few blocks away. I was running so fast that i ran out of my shoe and this man picked it up for me and i had to go back for it, then i dropped my phone and lost the back casing - but hey i arrived at court in 6 minutes and ju...

Another week of work is now over!! Had our Barbeque last night out on the verandah - they just don't do nice veggie sausages over here tho but the burgers were good1 It was absolutely freezing - it felt like we were mad having a bbq in the middle of winter but folk have them all year round over here! U see them on Sunday afternoons as all the parks have permanent free outside barbi's -it's great! We headed into Fortitude Valley which is a suburb of Brisbane kno...