After a day of getting over her jetlag our first stop with Lucy was down the valley, where we met up with Tasha and Simon as well as Animitra. However, the highlight of the evening was definitely the enormous New York Pizza the three of us enjoyed on the way home. The next day we dragged ourselves out of bed and onto the joys of public transport and headed over to Stradbroke Island for the day. Having never been to the island before we got off at the ferry ter...

After we had recovered from our weekend on Moreton Island it was time to plan for Jen's birthday and the arrival of another hommie in the form of Miss Caselton. After a couple of 'normal' weeks it was time for Jen to get a little bit older. The main activities were brought forward a couple of days to the weekend and it started with a wander around the streets of Brisbane to get her sufficiently disorientated before we headed up the stairs to a day spa where sh...

We are now back at home after spending the weekend on a four wheel drive tour over on Moreton Island, just off the Brisbane coast. It is one of the biggest sand islands in the world and only a short ferry ride across from the city. We were due to be picked up at 6:30am on Saturday morning from the transit centre in the city and had ourselves all packed and ready to go on Friday night in advance of our early start the next day and we realised just how important t...

We are currently recovering from last nights escapades as Brisbane said a sad farewell to Miss Woods. We met her at Irish Murphy's (her choice) where things were already well underway with some of her friends from the hostel before heading into a small park over the road next to the casino for a free concert. There had been a few bands playing for the last hour or so and the headliners, Youth Group, were about to take to the stage so after a stop at the bar we...

The Brisbane River Festival has been ongoing since the start of the month and yesterday evening was 'Riverfire', the finale to the celebrations. Each year there are loads of free events on and around the river including stalls, BBQ's, theatre performances, art shows and the aforementioned 'Riverfire', which is basically one big party along the river. We took a walk down to the lagoon after dinner to find the whole place was absolutely packed, so we shuffled...