Only another couple of hours south on the greyhound and we were in Byron Bay. As soon as we pulled in we got a really good feeling about the place. We were staying at the Arts Factory, which had been recommended to us by loads of people. We got the mini bus from the greyhound stop which took us five minutes out of town to our hostel. The Arts Factory has a very hippy vibe as does the whole of Byron. We decided to book a double room for a week as it worked out p...

Only a couple of hours south and we came to Surfers Paradise. Looking out of the window I was met with a cloudless blue sky and loads of skyscrapers! We checked in and had a wander around, amazed at all these massive buildings. It was like being in Miami or somewhere, but we soon realised it was more like a very hot built up Blackpool, with its wax  museum, haunted house, strip clubs, arcades and fish and chip shops. We found it very similar to a dodgy English s...

We caught the oz bus down to Brisbane, we were the only passengers on there and it took us about three hours to get there. Along the way the driver took us up to a view point in the Glasshouse Mountains, they're uunot really mountains more like big hills but they used to be volcanoes. What you can see today is actually the lava that plugged the volcanoes, the volcanoes themselves have been eroded away. We stayed at Brisbane backpackers for four nights, we arr...

Couple of hours from Rainbow and we hit Noosa; and so did the rain. We checked into the Nomads hostel there and they put us in a 8 bed dorm, not a 16 bed like we'd expected. There was bloke from Papua New Guinea,  and a skanky looking women from Serbia, who looked like she was on something in the room already. They asked us if we had a phone charger for a Nokia or a Samsung which we hadn't so we carried on and sorted our laundry out. The guy left and the...

Blog rainbow beach A couple of hours south and we were in rainbow beach, which was actually smaller than Hervey bay. We were doing our Fraser Island tour through Nomads and had two free nights accommodation at Dingos hostel. We were there a couple of days early though and decided to try somewhere else for a couple of days so we stayed at Pippies hostel. We weren't to impressed with Pippies because of the lack of atmosphere and the rude staff so we were glad ...