Okay, okay, okay. I've been nagged into submission and have decided to postpone going to bed in order to keep my loyal readers happy. On Sunday 6th I headed out of Brisbane to Beenleigh, about a 40 minute train journey away, to visit some friends of mum and dad. John Heppell was a student at Holt School in Scotland when dad taught there, many, many years ago. The world had not yet been introduced to Lee (lucky world) and I was a little tot of about 2 when...

Hello again everyone. Still in Brisbane and staying at the Tinbilly Hostel, which is clean and my dorm has an ensuite bathroom, which is great. The group in my dorm are brilliant - Daragh (Irish), Monika, Theresa and Jo (Canadian), Murray (English) and Ki Soek (Korean). The first night I was here I went out with Daragh and Monika and we all got on really well, so the following night we decided to venture into the city and it ended up with the whole room ...

Today I flew into Brisbane and the main reason I'm writing this card is that the top right hand corner of this site cannot be changed. It automatically updates to the location of the most recent postcard - hence once I've done this it should cahnge to Brisbane. It seems really nice here and when I got to the hostl at around 1400 I went out and discovered a Starbucks, Nandos and Sizzler (mum and dad are you jealous?). Oh and a New York Fries - best fries in...

Today was spent on a boat visiting the various islands and snorkelling. Having decided that I had had enough sitting around in the rain, I opted to do just a day trip on a boat, rather than 3 days, as was the original plan. I checked the weather forecast and it didn't look too foreboding, so decided to take the plunge and booked one of the more expensive day tours. I was picked up by bus from the hostel at 0730 and driven to the marina, where 24 of us set of...

The picture opposite it what this area is supposed to look like, however I have not been able to see the sea due to the incessant rain. Last night I actually took my flip flops off to walk home as they would have been washed away in the torrent running down the pavement otherwise. Today we have another weather warning for tonight, for exceedingly high winds as the cyclone approaches shore. The hostel was quite literally battening down the hatches, but fing...