I was woken at 8:20am by Talia ringing me and telling me to get downstairs. I gathered some basics and met her and Ben in the car park. The plan for the day was to grab a McDonalds, then pack some snacks and drive out of town for some beer, swimming and picnic. This we [...]

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I ate well on the flight over. As Qantas isn’t a budget airline, pretty much all flights have a free meal and i was actually given two as they had spare on board. Only a chicken salad sandwich, but they were good enough. I spent the flight reading and doing the crossword in the in-flight [...]

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Sat at Brisbane Domestic airport and for those who are interested there is a free wi-fi hotspot at the train station outside. Within the station there’s an Optus signal that I can tell you without looking will be charged for. There’s also a Qantas one that I’ve connected to and seems to be live, but [...]

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Well, after a quiet weekend I caught a train to the other end of Brisbane to have dinner with my cousin and her family. As ever, I had a great couple of hours with Avril, Jim, Heather, Jamie and Callum. It’s hard to believe they’ve been out here for seventeen years, now. The kids are [...]

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Just another post to let people know I’m alive. I’ve organised a few things, caught up with a couple of friends and hope to see some more before I move on on Tuesday. I managed to book a flight up to Mt Isa which wasn’t cheap, but was by far the quickest method to get [...]

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So, where was I? Ah, yes – Down at Ves’s. Well, I had a great chill-out and then an early start on the Tuesday morning. Mike drove me through to the train station where I paid the princely sum of $22 (£10) for a ticket from there all the way to Maitland. The journey required [...]

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I’m still here, folks! As I said, though, I’ve not been doing much in the way of touristy things, instead spending the time chilling out, catching up with friends, reading and working on the 1000 Miles site. The full route plan is now available! I have got out and away from the laptop! I took [...]

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The main problem with hotels, motels and hostels is check-out often being less than four hours after you make it to bed… Fortunately I’ve kind of got used to lack of sleep the last few days due to the partying on Byron Bay, so I wasn’t as bad as I could have been. Amber and [...]

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I booked a trip around Kangaroo Island (near Adelaide) through Adventure Travel Bugs for which I received unlimited free internet. I made full use of it for three hours catching up with some of you lot! After a quick lunch courtesy of some donated bread – I’d dumped what was left of my loaf in [...]

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 Breakfast was a simple spread of tea and toast, though at the unearthly hour of 6am. Today’s aim was to make it through 750km of ancient inland sea. Only now it’s a little drier. It began to strike me as we travelled how many creeks and rivers we drove over which were completely bone dry. [...]

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