I took a flight from Sydney to Melbourne early in the morning. The owner of the sofa here came to pick me up at the airport. His legs were not very good, and he just had knee surgery a while ago. Picked me up to his house in Fitzroy, a suburb of Melbourne, famous for its bohemian culture, very artistic, with giant murals on the streets and alleys. Compared to Sydney, Melbourne is more my...

Last night, I had a connecting flight from Singapore to Bali. I waited for four hours, and flew for about four hours at 11pm and arrived in Cairns at 5am local time. Two hours later, I didn’t sleep much on the plane. Taking a taxi with a British girl from Singapore on a flight to Cairns is much cheaper than taking a bus. Our female Uber driver seems to have just…

Before, because I was not too careful, it was too late to confirm with the Sydney sofa owner (Sri Lankan Sydney native), and he had already booked with other sofa customers. Unexpectedly, he was very warm and kind. Yesterday, he took the initiative to temporarily ask several of his friends if they could accommodate me. In the end, a Sydney friend of Lebanese descent agreed to accommodate me. Arrived late last night...

The only public transportation from Brisbane Airport to the city is 19 Australian dollars (90 RMB) for 20 minutes by train, which is simply too cheap compared to public transportation in China and Southeast Asia. The staff at the airport told me that the railway station in the city has a place to store bags, and went to ask to cancel it. It's really not a tourist city, it's too inconvenient to have no place to store your bags...