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Brisbane first

Skytrans shuttle bus between transit center and airport (tel 3236 1000), fare 6.50
Getting around: Off-peak saver card, $4 or buses at $1.40 a trip

– Brisbane Visitors Accomodation Service, 3rd level of transit center (tel 32362020), 7-6pm weekdays and 8-5 weekends)
– Internet: Central City Library, $4 per hour
– Second-hand bookshop: Archives Fine Books (40-42 Charlotte Street)
– Second-hand bookshop: Emma (82A Vulture St., West End)
– Crafts Village at South Bank (Friday evenings, Saturday and Sunday until 5 pm)
– Eagle St. Pier, Sunday morning handicraft market

Bus to Sydney. 17 hours. ! 69 to 75. Try Premier Pioneer Motor Services

Sydney

– Around Sydney: Get a Green Travel Pass $28 for the week
– Internet: Travellers Contact Point (7th floor, 428 George St.), Backpackers World (212 Victoria St., Kings Cross). 175 Liverpool St. opposite Hyde Park (24h).
– Dymocks: 424-426 George St.
– Gould’s, 33 Kng St., Newtown (second-hand)
– Powerhouse Museum, behind the Sydney Exhibition Center, 500 Harris St., Ultimo 10 am – 5 pm, $8
– Hostel: ~ 20/25.

Bus to Melbourne: 12-13 hour, Firefly Express (9211 1644) 45-50
Ask if I can get a discounted train ticked, 10.5 hours, $93 economy

Melbourne

– From airport: $9 Skybus, Bay 30 Spencer St. Coach Terminal to Melbourne Transit Center, every half-hour between 6 am and 10.30 pm
– Weekly tram ticket, zone 1: $18.60 (get All Day tickets instead if 4 days or less)
– Angus & Robertson Bookworld, 07 Elizabeth St.
– Collins Booksellers, 115 Elizabeth St.
– Dymocks, Bourke and Swanston Sts.
– State Library (Swanston and Russell Sts., near Latrobe St.)
– Tram tour, Zone 1 $4.30 per day
– Scienceworks Museum, 2 Booker St., Spotswood (15 minutes walk from the train station)
– City Center: Exford Hotel Backpacers’ (9663 2697) $11

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