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Who says Australians can’t do irony? Not me.
We were sitting waiting peacefully for the train to arrive at Coorparoo Station in suburban Brisbane when the man opposite us began to behave in what could only be described an ironic way. Don’t believe someone can behave ironically? Check out the picture we got to prove it…

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Anna, a fellow traveler who I worked with in Sydney, turned up unexpectedly in Brisbane just after Rob and I had decided to leave. Over a bottle of wine we quickly resolved to travel North together. In celebration of this excellent decision we proceeded to paint the town red.
It just so happened that the USS [...]

Mount Coot-tha lookout. Only a short drive from the city centre, Mount Coot-tha lookout and national park is well worth the drive. The view is only rivaled from that at the top of Mount Gravatt (for directions click here). However, Mount Coot-tha lookout has a busy café and is in close proximity to a planetarium [...]

Upon leaving Brisbane, we headed straight for Noosa to begin our next phase of holiday. We eventually found a decent cabin in Tewantin at the Big 4 camp ground, which was cheaper than the double rooms in the backpacker hostels and also came with bed linen (the Koala Backpackers was a little more expensive and, [...]

The best thing about travelling around Australia on a working holiday visa is when the working part is done and the holiday can start again.
I’ve just completed a seven week job fest. We decided against picking apples for $20 a tub and I got a job in corporate litigation with a national law firm. The [...]

A must see when in Brisbane. We went over this Saturday 14th July with the 4X4 on a whim. Whilst avoiding the toll bridge on the M1 we ended up on the road to Cleveland and decided that the $116 to take our car to the island was worth it -once we saw the tourist [...]

Things to do in Brisbane:
1) Go to New Farm for the quirky shopping
2) Stroll along the South Bank and visit the Centre for Performing Arts and/or Museum.
3) Go whale watching from Redcliffe Jetty.
4) Go to the Irish bars for live music -one has a sign that says “drinking solutions” -after reading hundreds of similar business [...]

No we haven’t turned into a strange advert for shipping or whatever that was. The registration ended on the site without my noticing… it surely hasn’t been two years since I registered it… and this occurred at the worst possible week - having just moved to Brisbane, taken a few weeks off work and without [...]

On Monday morning I went to the park. The botanical gardens in Brisbane to be precise, while I waited for Linda to finish a meeting.
I went prepared, however, as I took some essential sandwich making equipment, a mandarin and a samosa style thing that we had bought from the indian takeaway on Sunday night and [...]

Like Ozzy Osborn and his lovely charming daughter, we’re going through some changes.
I keep promising to bin all of the donation and other malarkey on the main site, then getting distracted by travelling a few thousand kilometers or being attacked by some local wildlife, so I swear that you’ll see some new stuff on this [...]