After having our veggie burgers we had brought for the BBQ yesterday, we hopped on a bus to go into the centre, so that we could move in to the hostel we are going to be working in. I was a bit worried that we would turn up too late and there wouldn't be any work available, but there was. Me and Bex are going to be toilet cleaners; she's on the morning shift and I'm on the evening shift, and Alice is going to do housekeeping. We got the free bus into town so th...

Bex and Katie picked us up from our hostel, and then we went to the alcohol shop and supermarket. Alice brought some banana bread and I brought some lamingtons- Australian cakes covered in chocolate and coconut. Millie (Katie's 5 year old daughter) showed us all the toys she wanted/ already had in the toy aisle. She made me play trashies with her- a game that seems to change rules every time you play it- and start setting up a crystal growing fish scene, but...

Today was a jobs day so we walked to the shopping centre to get a bank account, register with Medicare, get my camera looked at (there's no-one that does repairs because it's so expensive you may as well just buy a new one) and to use the free Wi-Fi spot, although it turned out it was just a McDonalds, and so would have had to buy something to use it. We needed to get our travel insurance to register with the health care, so we swung by the hostel to have lunch...

Once we got to Brisbane (around 3 am after going through baggage reclaim) we had to wait around in the arrivals lounge for a few hours until 6 which was the first train to Roma St. Station (where we were going to get the train from to go to Cairns). However I checked my email using the free Wi-Fi, and had received a message from Queensland Travel to say that due to severe flooding, they were disconnecting the line from Townsville to Cairns, and to phone them (f...

We had a lie-in today and then went in search for the nice patisserie Alice had suggested. We couldn't remember her instructions on how to get there though so settled for one just around the corner, which was very pricey. We had passed a frozen yoghurt shop on the way there, which obviously needed to be tried out. I had banana and chocolate, with a wide assortment of toppings including crunchy chocolate chips, normal chocolate chips, cranberries, yoghurt bursts...