There was a few bits 'n' bobs me and Alice needed to get shopping, including soap and conditioner which you can get quite cheap from Crazy Clark's, which was in Main Beach, in the opposite direction to Surfer's from the hostel, but the shopping centre wasn't very good and so we walked all the way from there to Surfer's, back on ourselves. I got a pair of jeans for $12.50- I needed some for work since Blake enforces the 'no shorts' rule that Josh ignores. Along t...

Today we got up early to clean the rest of our van. We didn't want the wheel's to look as dusty as they did (so they wouldn't have any clues that we drove on the unsealed roads to get to Longreach) so we must have looked quite funny, using the washing up brush and sponge to tidy the wheels up. I had memorised the route to drop off the van, (the cheap petrol stations seemed to have disappeared since we drove out of Brisbane) but since the road I needed to take did...

There were coupons at the hostel for a cafe where you could claim a free coffee and cake, so we headed there for breakfast, and then drove to Surfer's Paradise. We parked at the hostel, and then used their shuttle bus service to get into town. We found the Hogs Breath Cafe, and went in to introduce ourselves, and then went to Peter Pans travel agency to use their internet so we could start the online training for the new menu (so we had a bit of a head start fo...

We went for lunch at the Lebanese place and shared a veggie deluxe plate- falafels, vine leaves, Baba Ganoush, hummus, flat bread, tabouli, spinach and feta pie and a really nice rice, lentil and onion dish. After that we just chilled out at the lagoon. We watched a film which we requested to be 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' but it was a weird Mexican film where a woman married a drug dealer but loved his brother. We wanted to go out in fortitude v...

We allowed ourselves a nice little lie in, and then drove into the centre of Brisbane to find Brisbane Backpackers resort. I got a bit disorientated whilst looking at the map because I thought we were at the other end of the A3 road, and the signs were a bit misleading but we got there in the end. There were programs for the Brisbane Festival, which we had seen signs for whilst driving in- looks like we got here at a good time! There's some cool looking stuff l...