Allo Allo from the Wet Tropics of North Queensland! We had a nice train journey up from Magnetic Island on Monday and checked into our hostel in Cairns - very impressed indeed - didn't feel like a hostel atall - lovely room, great bar and superb buffet dinners - $6/$9 with excellent food. On Tuesday we just mooched about Cairns city and went to the lovely swimming lagoon (we were meant to be going on a day trip to the great barrier reef but cancelled it coz of ...

Well, well we have had a fab weekend on Magnetic Island ( When Captain Cook found in onboard the Endeavour his magnetic compass went crazy and hence the name!) but it's 8kn outside Townsville - a northern city in Queensland. It's gorgeous - a huge National Park in Horseshoe Bay, and our accommodation @ Bungalow Bay is in A frame wooden cabins in a Koala Sanctuary - it has a gorgeous pool with hammocks and an award winning restaurant - doesn't feel hostelly atall...

Hi All, Well C and I have just returned from our 3 day/2 nights Powerplay boat trip today. We boarded the vessle called powerplay on Tuesday at 11:30 with 4 crew members and 19 people. The boat was over booked by 1 but it didn't seem to matter. When we were waiting to board we started speaking to this English couple called Ben and Jenna who were from Yorkshire and lived minutes away from Charlottes family. They were around the same age as us and both Ben and I...

Well we left (or escaped!) from rainy Rocky on a train at 11:45pm and the journey was OK - eveyone was zonked out when we got on so we fell asleep too and arrived at Airlie in the morning to more rain!! It just really showers here though between the sun so it's not so bad. We are staying in a camping park not far from the town bit in whats called a "Camp-o-tel" - which is a permanent tipee tent thats got a double bed, light, table and chair - quite a ...