Preview of Jamesemorrow's blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Caboolture, Australia Entry Title: "WOW! I'm actually seeing some 'proper' Australia" Entry: "What can be simpler then a 3 hour bus ride from Byron Bay to Brisbane? Obviously a great deal as the mini van decided to turn itself off 90 Km from our destination. ****. This provided an excellent opportunity to stand on the side of the Bruce Highway and watch car after lorry after car after bus after car after car pass by. Wow, what fun. Not. Thankfully our stop was only 45 mins or so as another bus collected us for the rest of the journey. After a laboured detour via the bleeding airport, we finally arrived at the Roma St Transit centre (bus / train station to you and me) in the centre of Brisbane. Having devoured a ham sanger and a disappointing mango juice (thought it was OJ I was picking up), I was finally picked up by Simon & Petrina. I havent seen these guys for about 3-4 years, back in the days of working at Cat in Leicester. Sure enough they havent changed a bit, certainly Simon's **** taste in cars has been well-honed now, as they picked me up in some $400 Holden which was arguably smaller than my old 205 (ahhh, the peugeot 205..... now that is automotive engineering at its finest....). And it was off straight away, steadfast and true, north to the Zillman (Simon's surname) estate ...
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