After frantically selling/throwing away all of my personal belongings, moving out of our house and packing and re-packing a 30kg suitcase we were ready to fly to Brisbane.
We had a lot of emotional goodbyes, especially my boyfriend's parents, 'You're leaving forever' 'We'll never see you again' - cue guilt and stress! But we reassured them we'd be back, we were going on an adventure, to try it out, nothing was set in stone and who knew if we'd even like it!
We relaxed a little on the plane and excitement took over, our next stop was Dubai!
Dubai was incredible. I loved it so much and it was a great start to our adventure. We stayed at the Intercontinental which was insane.
We went to the Burj Khalifa, Wild Wadi water park, old town Dubai, Bubblicious brunch and on a sand dune safari.
Brunch was my favourite thing ever; all you can eat international food stations and unlimited cocktails and champagne! The dream!
In true Brit style we got wasted and ate way too much. We went back to the hotel and scoffed a Birthday cake that had been put in the room for my sister's boyfriend, did drunk gymnastics/head stands and tried to drink even more. This culminated in me waking up to the sound of my boyfriend filling the bath with vomit and sicking on my bikini and towels. What a time to be alive!
Although it was super muggy and hot in Dubai, I loved how lavish everything is. The hotels, malls and restaurants are all huge and expensive and we really felt like royalty at the Intercontinental.
Before we went to Dubai, I read about the cultural differences and respecting the culture: you can't hold hands or kiss in public, you have to be covered up and people had told me when they'd visited they'd felt a cultural difference which made me skeptical about our trip.
I have to say I didn't really feel this difference. I thought I would feel restricted and I didn't at all. But then again snogging in public and wearing skimpy clothes aren't really my forte.
So after our amazing trip in Dubai came to an end, we boarded our flight to Brisbane!
We were met at the airport by my cousin. One of the main reasons we chose Brisbane was because my cousin and his wife live here. They said we could stay as long as we needed while we got sorted with jobs and a flat. This was amazing to have, I don't think we'd have been able to move to another city knowing we'd have to pay rent straight away and having the comfort of being with family made the move easier.
We lived there in the suburbs for a few months, going on day trips, flat hunting and enjoying our time off work. We always knew we'd live in the city, but living in the suburbs cemented this for us, we needed to be near the action!
We moved to a 5* newly built hotel in Fortitude Valley, close to great restaurants and bars, a short walk into the city and it has a pool, gym and looks onto the Story Bridge. Oh and IT'S A FIVE STAR HOTEL!!
We were very excited!
Downsides: I HATE flat viewings and our flat came unfurnished so we had to buy our furniture off Gumtree. Cousin had to get van, pick up stuff, move all stuff to city = ball-ache.
We've lived here nearly 5 months now. It's the first time my boyfriend and I have lived just the two of us and we love it. :)
Although the job hunt hasn't exactly gone to plan...
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