Australia
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Day 188 – Pancakes and Planes
Checkout of our Airbnb, head to the Pancake Manor for some brekkie pancakes in a converted old church! Surrounded by some retro surroundings, we have some banana pancakes and eggs benny – this place is actually 24 hours, oddly We grab a phone cover for Daisy from MyMobile and another coffee from Pando Cafe, opposite…
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Day 187 – Beer-saurous Rex
Coffee, apple and chocolate snacks with The Expendables 2 on the laptop as we wake up Get ready and out not too far for our first stop off today – we keep walking by the Queensland Museum each day so we figure we might as well pop in as it’s free entry The many dinosaurs…
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Day 186 – Brisbane Bee Gees
Another slow day as we enjoy slowing down around Brisbane We’re off to Redcliffe today On the way, we have a quick stop at Starbucks to have a toastie for lunch – disappointing but was at least sustenance An hour on the train later, we make it to Redcliffe – ready to go see Bee…
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Day 185 – Eating our way through Brisbane
Up with some coffees and our little at home breakfast before making our way to MacArthur Mall We’re sorting Daisy’s phone – it’s a pretty smooth change over between selling the current and going next door to get the next This place has a food court so we have a Supreme Carvery to share while…
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Day 184 – Bumming around Brisbane
Slow day again today where Dave’s up before Daisy so he sticks on some telly Once she’s up, we have a cute breakfast of croissants and pikelets (pancakes) with maple syrup ???? We’re up late enough as well that we have our leftovers, from last night’s Chinese, as lunch before we set off We’re a…
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Day 183 – Has it really been 6 months?
We’ve been allowed to stay in our Air BnB later than typical check out so we get to wake up a little late, or at least try with the heat of QLD with no air con ???? It’s a leisurely day as we’ve only got to move places to stay today on the agenda We…
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Day 182 – It’s P!nk down under
Wake up to have some bacon and eggs provided by the Air BnB ???? We head out for the half hour drive to Awful Campers in Brisbane to drop off the rust bucket Considering we were expecting the worst, it actually went smoothly, they took note of the long list of issues and blamed it…
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Day 181 – The Crocodile Hunter’s legacy
We get ready with a burnt hot cross bun (as Daisy was in charge ????) and some coffees before getting out and on the road With one activity in mind today, we get straight to it: Beerwah is only half an hour away and hosts a very famous tourist landmark here Australia Zoo isn’t cheap…
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Day 180 – The Ginger Coast of Aus
Slow day today – first day in a while we’ve got more than one night somewhere so we can sleep in (or at least try) Couple mugs full of the good stuff, with the cafetiere in our bungalow, and a hot cross bun and a half each, of the Cadbury choc chip version, with some…
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Day 179 – Kayaking the Everglades
Wake up and get out of our place We pop to a Macca’s nearby, still in Hervey Bay, for a treat brekkie On the road we’ve got to get passed the bottom half of the Great Sandy National Park, consisting of a very long arched stretch of beaches Sadly the road doesn’t go near to…