13th August 2008

Gah. Bored and very impatient to get home. Travel today is a bit long and could go wrong as after this bullet train to Tokyo I've got to find the N'EX to Narita Airport, then somehow ring my hotel, communicate where I am and find some abstract pick up point for someone to get me. I also fail to have the brain cognitive power to red today, or anything else productive. Maybe I just lack caffeine. The kid next to me appears to be eating half the junk food on this train. The world is going by fast. I need to eat something other than sushi. And find a cash machine that likes my card. So mainly only 7-11s.

With extreme rushing, a grumpy man sold me a ticket to the 14.03 Narita Express with only 3 min to go, so I had to hotfoot two floors of Tokyo station. Not impressed.

7th August 2008

Happily checked out of capsule hell. Station. Far too early. Long tube ride. Sit on platform. Sexy train. No battery in camera. Fast nice ride. Easy tube system. Found hotel, nice to have room and shower. Went to find a convience store. Food. Random wander. Find zoo. Cool empty and eerie, better condition than Beijing. Evening chill and net and food. Good.

6th August 2008

Up. Happy. Alive. Better. Went to he 7-11 for food. Tube to Pagoda. Turtles, Tram. Tokyo National Musuem. Hot. Walk around temple and the lake, very pretty lillies. Saw a tram and fountain. Nice musuem. Art and stuff. Cool deserted museum building, like the style, not sure why? Wandered around. Back to station. To Ginza and saw the Sony Building, with an aquarium outside and musical/light up stairs. Hibiya Koen park. Metal guy. Nice food. Tokyo Tower in distance. Imperial Palace, outer garden and Palace. Hot hot hot. Water fountain plaza. Tube to Shimbashi. Tokyo version of DLR, nice ride to Odaibo and Tokyo Bay. Big ferris wheel. Beach. Bridge. Sega Joyopilas. Statue of Liberty?! Camera death. Took DLR all the way to the end of the line, back to Tokyo, bought Shinkansen (bullet train) to Osaka for tomorrow. £70!! but only 2.5 hours for 450km. Not quite maglev speed. Back, found some internet. Blam.

Wednesday 16th April 2008

• Checked out and played hacky sack in the Botantical gardens
• Went to virgin and got an Oz phone.
• Greyhounded and arrived late in to Hervey Bay
• Awesome bear fueled mini van journey from bus depot.
• Nice hostel, rooms connect to cool lounge and kitchen. Nice group from an Oz uni (international students from Americas and Asia)
• Wandered around a dead Hervey Bay, wanna do the 4x4 safari with the group.
  

Tuesday 15th April 2008

• Caught train, london journey.
• Australia Zoo, woooo. Steve Irwin still alive, or so it seemed. Though sad memorial. Saw bindy in person randomly! Croc show, and the such like.
• Went to hostel bar for 1, got offered a Wicked Travel coupon for a weeks rental of a van that some couple had won but didn't want. We didn't want either.
• Had pizza, cooked ourselves in horrendous kitchen.
• Chatted to two irish girls about OZ and stuff
  

Monday 14th April 2008

• Joff was rubbish and died in the morning
• I felt fine so began the Lonely Planet walking tour of Brisbane, saw a cool cathedral, which I sat in for a bit though probably blasphemously listened to Brand New in there.
• Walked down the boardwalk next to river, drank vast quantities of liquids.
• Botanical gardens again.
• South bank, went to library and utilised the free internet
• Went to the Modern Art gallery then the Art Gallery, all pretty cool.
  
• Met Joff, went to Qantas to try and sort out his flights, failed.
• Found a cheap food court that was giving away lunch time food on the cheap.
• Hacky sacked in square surrounded by suits.
• Hit up woolies (for lunch tomorrow).
  
• Used the internets, possibly napped? (According to notes by doesn't sound like me), and read.
  

Sunday 13th April 2008

• Early up
• Greyhound to Brisbane, not as great as last bus.
• Free bus to Bunk.
• Smallest room in the universe.
  
• Wandered to a falafel bar/kiosk, then to central Brisbane
  
• Got some coffee and chilled across the river on the South Bank.
  
• Decided to walk through Botanical Garden (ish)
• Attacked by crazy possum.
  
• Back to bunk.
• Out for food, then rock bar, then other music bar, then everywhere else shut or v.expensive.
• Gay club....
  

Saturday 12th April 2008

• Went to beach (surprisingly)
• Hacky sack (more surprisingly)
• Rode waves, had lunch (of pizza again apparently)
• Hacky sack
• Rode waves, face smash against sea bottom, break neck, dizzy, rest on beach.
• More hacky sack.
• Dinner (a Risotto style affair from a restaurant unknown)
• Chilled with cheap beers (that I had to get) and did laundry in evening (Joff bust some guitar)
  

11th April 2008

• Checked in after getting a random lift to hostel
  
• Explored
• Weather was pretty bad.
• Ate. Omelette. Falafel.
• Beached with Hacky Sack
• Went to Earth and Sea for pizza extravaganza dinner
• Cheeky Monkey supposed awesome night out place in town. Wasn't.
  
• Got neck and back massage, which basically involved being beaten up by a girl
  
• Went to another rockier bar, was a bit pap.
• Milled around, and then gave up and chilled on the beach.
  

10th April 2008

• Went to the Olympic Park, listening to russell brand podcasts.
• Hired bikes and cycled around in the awesome heat
• Went back and had a nice pub dinner, and met up with crazy girl (Lindsey)
• Chilled a bit and had some more food, then caught the late over night greyhound to Byron Bay!

9th April 2008

• Blue Mountains eco tour
• Crazy Girl started chatting to us, we couldn't find any bars open so had vast quantities of sugar instead.
• Stayed up til 3am. Whoops

8th April 2008

• Sorted out our greyhound ticket for the entire east coast
• Went across to manly, did various walks, got lost, a bit
• Got back for our night time Bridge climb, AWESOME!
• Had an amazing Emu Pizza at the Australia Pub

7th April 2008

• Sorted out our Fraser Island and Whitsunday Trips via a lovely lady in Sta Travel
• Walked on through to the Botanical Gardens and saw some crazy large bats and spiders
• Got a cool Opera house tour
• Got Food?

6th April 2008

• Maritime Museum, lots of stuff, cool ships.
• Had Italien across town, avoid gang in park
• Went to the scubar, played some pool.
• Was odd 90s football matches on the tele
• Some apparently "world famous singer" was there.. hmm

5th April 2008

• Died a small death
• Had to change rooms due to hostel tom-foolery.
• Had some rehydration things, and threw up instantly.
• Slept some.
• Went to The Rocks
• Had a chicken steak sarnie
• Went to the rocks market place
• Checked out the Opera house from across the harbour.
• Walked across the entire sydney harbour bridge.
• Took the ferry back and saw the sunset, awesome.

4th April 2008

• Woke up at 4.30am
• Our Flight was cancelled. So we got thrown on an earlier one.
• Randomly fell onto a train to Central Station
• Threw our bags into a locker at Central YHA
• Went to Darling Harbour and got some touristic leaflets
• Got coffee for our souls
• Explore a bit then had Steak and Guiness pie in an Irish Pub
• Pondered what we should do and decided on a few ideas
• Checked into our hostel, extremely nice.
• Went off to Kings Cross where all the travel agents are
• Through Spanish Harlem.
• Incident with "Wicked Travel" and Howie try to scam us
• Researched, gave up, went to trust STA travel
• Had a pot noodle for dinner
• Went to the YHA bar, which was pretty bad, so went to the irish pub again and had a few while watcing a live band
• Went to Darling harbour, wasn't allowed in lots of places because of jandals
• Found a rock bar, cool music and beer
• Went to subway, and chatted with some girls for a while before heading to bed

3rd April 2008

• Drove entire Ocean Road
• 12 apostles and London Bridge
• Death traffic on motorway
• Europcar try to scam us for petrol money
• Checked into our new hostel (The Nunnery)
• Met up with Joff
• Met Sarah
• Had a drink, then returned to hostel
• Ate pasta, watched TV very sleeply
• Slept

End of Ocean Road

TO BE WRITTEN..

Apollo Bay

TO BE WRITTEN.