Murwillumbah

Saturday I took a bus from Brisbane to Murwillumbah, a little village in the Tweed valley, about 2 hours south of Brisbane. I'm staying at the YHA hostel here, and it's a really nice hostel. It's quite small, in an old house overlooking the river and Mount Warning. And the woman at the reception offered me a deal I couldn't refuse, I could stay here for free in exchange for sweeping the floor in the kitchen and wiping down the benches yesterday, and today I had to clean the bathroom and vacuum clean the hallway, all together about an hour's work. She said she already decided that she would offer me this exchange when she heard me on the phone the day before, apparently she liked my voice, ha ha. Anyway, this is great as it saved me about 58 Australian dollars :-)
Murwillumbah is a very quite little town. It seems al the shops are closed on saturday afternoon and sunday and there are only a few restaurants and cafe's and they all have very strange opening hours. There is a wonderful little place where they have thai food and pizzas, I think that's kind of a strange combination but nevertheless the red curry I had was possibly the best ever.
And this afternoon I'll take the bus to Twin Bridges, a stop in the mountains between Murwillumbah and Nimbin, where I will do some wwoofing. I will stay there for a week to begin with, maybe longer if it's really nice. I'm very curious how it will be.