EastCoast Trip....

I went to my friend Leanne's place in Melbourne and hung out with her for 4 nights and had a chilled out time with her. She is a nurse and we met in Oxford England..

I also visited Vic Roads and had a tour of their customer service operations and also their treaffic operation centre.

Melbourne is a cool place...... so urban....... it knows what it is and its quitely happy about its self, the pubs are cosy little classics and the city is bursting with stuff goin on.

The Espy hotel

After Melbourne I flew to Sydney to stay with my friend Keith who I knew from Perth. We used to go to college in perth. He lives in Dee Why on the Northern Sydney Beaches.

He took Friday off and we went for a drive up the coast. Was really good..... saw all the beautiful beaches on the north of Sydney, I could live there is awesome...... we also went to a couple of pubs and saw Palm beach where they film Home and away, also went to the national park where 'Skippy was filmed also although it was closed.

I got food poisoning from this Thai Restraunt in Dee Why and had the worst cramps/pains at about 2-3am in the morning and had to have the rest of the day in bed. was required cos I was so exhausted at that time any way from late nights etc... On the Saturday night we went out for dinner in the city and then did a bit of partying in the 'rocks' area of Sydney. We stayed in the posh eastern suburb of Rose bay at Keiths girlfriends that night before them dropping me off at the airport earlyish on sunday morning, just making it......

I then flew to Brisbane and had my old best buddy Jeremy pick me up from the airport where he then took me back to his place in Bowen hills in Brisbane and I stayed the night an caught up slightly with Jeremy. I had a meeting with the Brisbane City council that I arranged the next day and went to it to have a look at their set up there, the tour was only about 5-10 mins. I then caught the train to Palmwoods on the Sunshine coast where my dad came and picked me up and took me home to my parents place. was good to see them.....I went to my best mates place in Nambour (Michael - Mic Dos) that night after dinner with the parents and we had a few drinks and stayed up pretty late even though he had to work.

I then alternated with day time meetings with my parents and night time liasions with my old school friends. My parents and my uncle came to dinner on Thursday night at the Buderim Tavern and a i had a real nice Moreton bay bug risotto(, they had humungous size steaks there also. Buderim is the small village where my parents lives is really nice there on top of a small mountain top.....

Thursday night was the last night with my parents and the Sunshine Coast as Myself and Mic Dos had arranged a loft apartment at the 'bunk' Backpackers in Fortitude Valley in Brisbane ( the seedy party part of town) the loft apartment was really cool. was double story and very new. This apartment was 2 mins walk from everywhere(the mulititude of night clubs and eateries). Perfect location. Mick invited his 'new' girlfriend on the saturday night and I can say 'wow' she was really nice.

We had Chinese meals both nights and we partied at a few clubs although by this time of my trip I was exhausted and was not too lively out......I also caught up with Jeremy and his mate Les on the Friday night and we had a couple of drinks and went to the Story Bridge Hotel (which I must say was pumping and totally renovated - heaps of dollars must have been spent)

On Saturday myself and mick were really tired although we went to the Valley Markets and got Shiatsu massages each and had an awesome breakfast at 'Fat boys' on the mall. A queensland breakfast institution must go.....

On the Sunday morning we went to cafe Cosmopolitan and had another nice breakfast, the Valley Mall is fantastic place to party and eat....I really miss Brisbane is a great place and it was really warm there about 25 degree C'. Mick left after our breaky leaving me on my own so I did a bit of shopping and also sightseeing round Brisbane, Jeremy picked me up from the the Bunk and we went back to his place.