Day 1 5/8/06 - Australia

Sydney -> Coolangatta -> Surfers Paradise

Highlight

• Sydney Airport T2 was being renovated, so there was nothing much to do. All the chain food and retail stores seem to now have representation there though.
• We expected our $5 Jetstar flight to be really crowded, but surprisingly, it wasn't the case. It's been awhile since our last flight and I'm happy to report their seats have much more leg room now (not that it matters to me). Our 1/3 full flight arrived at Gold Coast airport ahead of schedule, a great start to our holidays.
• Since Europe, we've decided to always hire manual cars from now on, and we picked up our black Toyota Yaris (click here for review), stuffed our huge suitcase in the backseat and off we went. Slokky only managed to stall once, at the lights, on the 30 mins drive up to Surfers.
• I was disappointed with our 4.5 stars hotel. We'd booked a Deluxe room instead of a Superior room ($30 extra per night) so we expected it to be good. The room was ordinary (click here for review), and they didn't even give us any soap!
• We spent the night going through travel brochures thinking of what to do.

Food

• Rice paper rolls with prawns, corn and broccoli