We took an hour long train journey south down to the Gold Coast to the famous resort of Surfers Paradise... guess what its famous for?! So you would have thought we would have tried surfing here but the waves were strangely calm, so much so that no lessons were taking place! We checked into our apartment... yes an apartment which looked like something out of an Ikea catalogue and was spanking new - still with a fresh paint smell. We shared the apartment with 1 o...

Hi all, Huge apologies for not keeping the blog entries up to date but we've had loads of problems with internet and just generally having too much fun but hope you've enjoyed our photos and here are the start of the blogs for Australia. We arrived in Brisbane in the early hours from catching our flight from Singapore so we were very tired when we arrived to find our hostel. We stayed in the southbank area just 10 mins walk from the city. The hostel was cool ...