Paul Down Under: Gold Coast

At high school my best friend for many years was Mark Kilroy. After school we went to different colleges and kind of lost track with each other :(
We only got back in touch via Facebook a couple of years ago. Turns out Mark now lives on the Gold Coast in Australia with his wife Claire:

So I took the opportunity while I'm here in OZ to take a short flight up to see them for the weekend.

When I arrived it was chucking it down :( But we walked around a small town near the airport where they had an old car show on.

Even though it was wet and miserable we took a nice walk along the coast line.

And people were still surfing even in this crappy weather!!

Around this time 20 years we left school, so this was our own little 20 year reunion on the other side of the world!

We went out for a nice meal to celebrate and obviously had a few too many drinks :)

The next day the weather was a lot nicer, so Claire and Mark drove us round a few of the nice beaches the Gold Coast has to offer.