Alice’s Gap Year Travels

Nimbin was wierd.

We got picked up by one of ‘Jims Alternative Tour’ buses and an old South African guy called Ivan wearing a baggy vest and no shoes checked us onto the bus. As he drove he played crazy loud music and talked of his hatred for all authority and religion and promoted free love, and doing whatever the hell you want…

We stopped at a pub along the way then reached Nimbin where everything smells of inscense and ‘pot’ to put it bluntly. Hippies galore, lots of little shops and stalls etc. From Nimbin we went driving through narrow lanes up into the forests which was fun as there is a massive hill which Ivan told us took 5mins 11secs to get down from start to finish (he has found a song exactly that length and so at the top he puts it on and then speeds all the way to the bottom and stops dead as the music finishes – clever stuff!) Anyway in the forest we went to this man called Paul’s house which is a crazy shack covered in fairylights in the middle of the forest overlooks a big lake with lillys in where we ate wild macadamia nuts and freash melon – very pretty but so strange and on walking through the forest i got bitten on my toe by some crazy bug which was horrid. Paul has long hair, a massive beard and is about 5ft tall -also with no shoes and in is baggy, broken jeans unfortunately in became apparent that he owns no pants either! After this we drove to a waterfall which was nice then finally got home. Nimbin – not somewhere i’ll be rushing back to anytime soon.

Anyway, Byron is a really great place, theres basically one main street with shops and cafes and bars and at the end you reach the beach 🙂 After our day trip to Hippyville we had a big bbq in the hostel then went out to ‘Beach hotel Bar’ which was fun.. next couple days we spent down on the beach and one night we headed down there late at night to relax under the stars… lets just say skinny-dipping in the Pacific Ocean is a MUST – you only live once right?! (<–you’ll be hearing this a lot as it’s become the gangs new motto!) haha! On the walk back to our appartment it POURED with rain which just made the whole thing even funnier.

Yesterday the canadian in our room that works in the hostel called Ben invited us to play ‘Beersbee’ with him and his mates in the yard, we thought it sounded fun till we got round there and realised we were to be the only girls with about 12 already drunk canadians who take thier ‘Beerzbee’ very seriously.  It’s basically Frisbee and there are two teams and you have to try and throw the frisbee and hit a can off a stick without knocking over any of the beer bottles below, by 8pm we were in a bit of a state already which made packing a little bit stressful haha but this morning we jumped on the bus and are now in Surfers Paradise!

Updates soon XXXXXXX

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