Postage Investigation / Net Café
Trip Start
Sep 17, 2006
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Trip End
Dec 23, 2008
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Monday, October 30, 2006
The post offices here are called Australia Post stores. The nearest one also happened to be one of the larger ones in Brisbane. I popped in and asked about sending large parcels, the woman told me that it’s fairly expensive, but depends on the weight of the package. I bought some cardboard parcel bags and headed back to the hostel. The idea is to send my suit and some paperwork back home so that I lighten my load.
As I needed to catch up on the blog I decided to spend the majority of the day in a cheap internet café that I’d found. It cost two dollars to plug my laptop into their internet connection (80p), then just one dollar an hour (40p/h) for unlimited broadband internet. So a fantastic deal! I plugged in at 12:30 and stayed till nearly 5pm. This allowed me to catch up with the blog and also prepare a new blog site that should be online in the next week or two.
On returning to the hostel I found a new set of bags. This is always an exciting moment for a traveller! Moments later a German guy in his mid twenties appeared from the bathroom, he looked like one of the characters from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He was staying for just one night, he told me that he’d managed to get an interesting job working for Cirque de Solea at the weekend building a tent, that’s the sort of temporary job that I am looking for.
Before the evening was up we were joined by another new roommate. This time it was an old man, I say old but he was only 41. He was an Australian en-route from Toga. Apparently he’d been there looking for land to build a house for him and his wife. He’d just got off the plane and had missed the last bus out to some remote outback town. He looked like a typical aussie bloke, tanned and wearing an Hawaiian shirt. I set the alarm for 8am and dropped off to sleep.
