Gold Coast

Nothing More Relaxing Than Fish

15 June 2009 Entertainment Australia

Last week I mentioned that it was Queensland’s 150th birthday. To celebrate that, some time back in February the owners of some of the theme parks over at the Gold Coast put together a special deal. For just $50 per child and $80 per adult they were selling passes which gave unlimited entry to three [...]

Wet and Wild and Wet and Weird!

2 March 2009 Australia's Bad Things

On Sunday we decided to have a family day out. So my wife and I and my son and daughter headed for Wet and Wild, a water park on the Gold Coast. It’s very rare that all four of us go out together on account of the fact that my son, aged 22, stayed in [...]

Australia vs England at House Prices

26 February 2009 Australia vs UK

About a month ago the fifth annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey (I must have missed the first four) claimed that Australia has some of the worlds most expensive housing, quoting the Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast as being in the top five of the least affordable areas in the world. I don’t get [...]