Alice’s Gap Year Travels

Surfers Paradise is the Vegas of Australia.

It pretty much consists of bars, clubs, casinos, the beach, sky-scrapers, shops, BMW’s and convertables. We met loads more aussies here too from all over as it is where they all come to party and relax for a long weekend. Our hostel was called Island Backpackers and it had a pool and jacuzzi – YAAAAY! Having settled in we decided it was about time we tried to gain some kind of structure for the rest of our time in Oz so headed to the travel agents – Peter Pans 🙂 A bloke called Mark sat us down and sorted everything out for us in amongst telling us his entire life story and gossiping about his boss – we went in there most days as they had free internet and in 5 days his hair colour went from blonde to bright blue to black – he was pretty jokes. So now we have got everything booked including accomodation all the way up to Cairns which is pretty exciting and as Mikaela (swedish) has got a 1 yr working visa here she has decided to join us along the way so now we are officially a 3! 😀

The next day we decided to hit DREAMWORLD along with our mate Jenni – it’s the largest themepark in Oz! So much fun but it was soooooo hot and we were sweating buckets all the way round, nice. Our favourite ride was Tower of Terror and they also had a wildlife area where we got to stroke/feed Kangaroos which was really cute.

On the Wednesday it rained – suprise suprise (I suppose it’s great for the country as they are currently having a massive drought but not so good for us lot trying to get a tan! From the weather it seems we’ll have a permenant raincloud following us up north, BOO!) So anyway – we decided to go shopping (or should i say bargin hunting!) That night, each armed with a new outfit we hit Caville St., the main strip, with ‘Plan B’ pub crawl – it started at 5pm which was lame at first as it was a bit too early to start but by the 4th bar we were loving it – there were games, free drinks and pizzaaaa. Our favourites were ‘The Bedroom’ and ‘Sin City’ – we met loads of great people and ended up having a really good night 🙂

With a TV in our dorm we had a ‘girls night in’ one night too, watching Dream Girls and Coyote Ugly and being ‘Surfers Paradise’ we did manage to get to the beach for a few hours before the clouds came in! …This morning we have arrived in Brisbane, we’re only staying 2 nights so went down to the South Bank today and have looked around the Museum already.

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