Let's Travel•Eat•Play!

 A visit to the strawberry farm for some PYO (Pick-your-own) fun during the  Australia winter season has gotta be 1 of the highlights of the holiday! We brought the kids to McMartins Strawberry Farm in Sunshine Coast. They loved the experience (as well as the juicy sweet berries) so much that we return for 2nd round after a day! The price for PYO was A$16 per kilogram when we visited. Do note that the farm is only open during the strawberry harvest season ie, May till October. Get a bowl from the staff and proceed to the patch! I suggest taking your time and walk to the farther end, as most visitors tend to pick the berries at the beginning, as they walked along hence the far end actually had more bigger and redder strawberries! There's no time limit, just take it slow and walk down the patch for more red berries. Budding flowers! Juicy Big Red Strawbies! K-bros got over excited & filled up the bowl in no time! After harvesting enough st...

We did a fly-drive holiday to Queensland Australia during the June school holidays, covering  Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast. After checking out of Paradise Country Farmstay, we checked -in to this 2-bedroom Airbnb apartment for 7 nights. The 2-bedroom apartment Outside the apartment block Information/Tour brouchures at main entrance Why did I choose this Airbnb apartment? It fits all my criteria: -Centrally located at Surfers Paradise My plan was either to stay at Broadbeach or Surfers Paradise. Finally decided on this particular apartment base on the rest of the criteria below. Very please with this booking, this walk-up apartment was only 5 minutes walk to Coles and other amentities like Woolworths,  Surfers beach, the thrice weekly evening bazaar were a few more minutes walk from Coles. It is near the busy stretch of Surfer's yet it isn't noisy at all! Brownie point: 5 minutes walking distance to the meeting point for our whale watching cruise! ...

We traveled to Queensland Australia during the June school holidays. It was a self-drive vacation, covering Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast. I'm sharing our  Queensland (June 2019) itinerary and some information links here, detailed blog post to individual attractions and accomodation will be updated along the way ( highlighted yellow ). I hope you'll find the information useful! ♡(∩o∩) Day 1 (Friday) • 6:30am (Local Time) Arrived at Brisbane Int'L Airport after an overnight flight. -We bought data sim card from Optus counter at Arrival hall, it was only A$25 per card with 55GB of data! (Thankful to the travel sharing at  SHC Travel Facebook Page , I read useful information on such affordable data card available in Australia, therefore I did not rent pocket wifi for this trip. Do join the group if you are looking for genuine sharing of travel tips!) -Proceed to collect our car which we rented from  Apex Car Rental . (´∀｀)♡ We were all ready to begin our 11 da...