Out just before 8, and check the bus times for tomorrow. Soon it is 1000, and I go to the City Hall and look around the museum that is situated there. It is small but interesting - the development of Brisbane as a city only really started in the 1860s. There is also a fashion display of dresses. I go up the clock tower, though there are no particularly good views as there are too many other high buildings. You couldn't get out of the clock, so no Robert Powell as...

Awake at 0800. Go for a wander, and phone the Gabba to investigate tours, pencil in Thursday for a visit. Go to the Queensland Museum (free) and browse for about two hours. Excellent. A little exhbition about three Australian Army soldiers from World War I who were awarded the Victoria Cross. Also a little on the history of Queensland and the treatment of the Aboriginals; reptiles, animals, fish, transport, including the smallest boat to travel around the world. ...

Monday Shower, quite chilly, but soon warms up. Breakfast at hostel. Misplaced my towel, oops, but find it in the laundry room. Walk back to the Sunshine Plaza along the river, buy some water. Get back on the Greyhound Bus to Brisbane. Fantastic place! Very relaxed, and very beautiful, lots of lovely old-style buildings, some come alive at night with purples and blues shining off them. Go for a walk with Tom (25, Newcaslte, works in construction) to get an idea...

Switched from one bunk to another (both top) at 2am, as I was directly under the airconditioning and therefore freezing! Good sleep. Awake at 0600. Overnight had been Bath v Leicester. Anticipation. Shower then duck out and check phone for result, 20-20 - a draw! Greyhound Bus to Maroochydore, an unplanned stop, but a necessary one to meet David Dungey, a fellow Who foum patriot. Probably should a bit nervous about metting a random person from the net but I wasn'...

Slept remarkably well on the overnight bus journey, considering I kept waking up in uncomfortable positions with no feeling in my left leg! Arrive at the Hervey Bay stop at 0630, which turns out to be about an hours amble to where I am staying. Since I can't check in until later though it is not a problem, and I see a monument in memory of Aborigines, before a nice walk through a little park. Have a sit down on a bench by the beach, a lovely long beach, a bit lik...