We've arrived in Noosa where we've seen more expensive apartments, luxury cars (even saw a Ferrari yesterday), and more arrogant looking ****ers than anywhere else. That last notion may be a tad unfair we'll just have to see. There are an inordinate number of 'surfer dudes' (to use their parlance) who all look either really hard or about 12...or more menacingly, both. On a serious note Noosa looks much more developed than all the other resort towns on the East Coast and seemingly caters for the well-heeled (not sure what we're doing here...). Avril Levigne (whoever she is) spent a couple of days here last month cavorting on the beach by all accounts, and what's OK for an un-talented 17-year old Canadian that can't sing should be more than OK for us. (Whilst we're talking about Canadian songstresses it's a shame Alanis wasn't here - what fun we could have with the lyrics to 'Ironic' - the irony being of course that in a song called 'Ironic' none of the 'ironic' observations are 'ironic'...oh the irony!!!) but I digress...

We arrived yesterday afternoon after a fairly uneventful bus journey only enlived by a bus driver that knew everything about every small town/village/house en route and peppered us with facts along the lines of 'You can fit seven and a half UK's into Queensland and it's not even the biggest state...' Arriving at our hostel we found we were sharing a kind of maisonette (a bit like my brothers flat but on two levels and without all the gadgets) with another couple (who were out). Charlotte and Chris (both 23, although he born in 1979 her in 1980 - very crucial bit of info this) sauntered in at about 5.30, and it appears they were having the same thoughts as us all along - namely: what will these other people be like, will they steal stuff, are they tidy (whoops!) etc etc... Our fears (and hopefully theirs) were allayed - they are a great couple - he's a sports mad Alan Partridge fanatic (and frankly who isn't?) and she's a really down to earth bright bubbly sort. We all got on really well and after a few beers I even helped her fill in a job application form and told her how to manipulate the client and, more importantly, the recruitment consultant. God I hope my advice works... Today is a 'let's look around our new home' type day so we probably won't do a great deal. We're here until next Monday and may learn to surf at some point (yes they do make boards big enough...) and possibly take a trip up to Rainbow Beach. We may bring our trip to Brisbane forward by a few days if we don't like this place...