Our Shoes Full of Feet

Tonight is a big night for us because, after nine months, it marks our last night of living in Australia! Tomorrow, we will be flying to Bali, which I am incredibly excited for. It isn’t goodbye to Australia forever though. After Bali, we will be returning to visit Perth (and tick off our last Australian state!) before continuing on with our journey. It would have been nice to finish Australia off completely before moving on, but this way just made more sense with flights. As we start travelling our way back home, you can expect to receive a lot more blog posts from me. Starting off, before we leave, with the list of my top 10 things to do in our second (and last) Australian home: Brisbane. 1. Take in the views of Story Bridge from Eagle Street Pier Our first night after returning to Brisbane was spent at a bar called Felons Brewing Co, which has beautiful views overlooking the Brisbane River and Story Bridge. Just outside this bar is an elevator, which takes you up to the s...

Whilst living in Brisbane, we’ve wanted to make the most of being on the East Coast and all of the beautiful places it has to offer. Since we’re both currently working full time, we’ve had to save all of our exploring for the weekends, which has resulted in some pretty amazing mini-breaks. As our time on the East Coast of Australia is drawing to an end, I wanted to write this post in order to share two of my favourite mini-breaks we’ve had here. The Gold Coast We’d actually visited the Gold Coast before, when we were travelling in the campervan at the start of our journey. However, my associations of that time mostly consist of ophthalmologist appointments, eye pain and too much light sensitivity for me to be able to tell you whether the coast was gold, silver or aquamarine. We did have some good times there on our first visit. For example, we visited the restaurant where my sister used to work when she lived in Australia and I spent my 24 th  birthday at an Italian resta...