Surfers Paradise vol 2
Wednesday
It’s 10 am and I force myself to wake up. It seems like the Vodka Red Bull we had with Matt and Oisin last night still has a perceptible effect on me, ‘cause I’m feeling a bit dizzy. ‘No K, get up, you can’t offer yourself a day off in bed! Remember you are still homeless?’ Our Gold Coast dream is waiting to be fulfilled and we are heading down to Surfers to take a look at a few more apartments.
We paid $7.90 (how many minutes of hard work is that?) to become premium members on the Easy Roommate website, so we could see the contacts of other members offering shared accommodation. Browsed about 25 pages and found 3-4 places that seem to meet our needs. Walking distance to the beach, nice roomies, and swimming pool. Can’t bother to have less :) About 3 hours later, after a long shower and quick breakfast (isn’t it supposed to be the other way round: quick shower and long breakfast?), we are down on GC and ready for the surprises that are waiting for us behind these 3 doors. I’m still having nightmares about the last experience with Mr M. the funky geek, and I’m hoping I won’t have any additional ones from today.
Quick chat with Härmo and Anni that have come down from Brisbane to enjoy a day off in the Paradise, even quicker lunch with sushi (the healthiest fast food!), we walk into a bunch of other Estonians. Surprise, surprise! Again this ‘world is becoming small’ feeling. Funny feeling when you think you have come all the way down to Australia and it’s becoming an everyday thing to meet somebody from back home. So we hear that there’s about 6 Estonians living in the same house in Surfers Paradise. Great news, at least we know where to spend Christmas :) Tiit, one of the local Estonians, shows us an accommodation office around the corner, in case we need to see more places, and keeps talking about his life in Surfers. ‘I wake up, I go surfing, I work, I go surfing, I hang around, and I go surfing.’ More or less. We try some of the ads on the office window and send a few more texts. Two French guys are looking for female roommates for a house on Esplanade, the first street back from the beach. Jin-Jin, or Jim (the handwriting is hard to understand), is offering a great value price, just $75 a week in the heart of Surfers. That’s for a sofa bed in the corner of his living room as we later find out. No, thanks! The French guys seem fun (they speak Frenglish ‘This is the rrroom. Arrre you interrrested?’), but for some reasons we aren’t fascinated by their charm, nor the place itself. We walk down to the top end of Surfers to see another place, but that turns out to be a little shack between the skyscrapers. The dream about a great skyline view from our bedroom falls apart, as the house will probably do, too, in the near future if it doesn’t get a complete ‘face lift’. We see one more house where the only thing I like is the glass table in the living room that is actually a big aquarium with heaps of little fish. Never mind, we have one more place to see in Paradise Waters, between Surfers and Main Beach, and that’s a nice one. Kes otsib, see leiab. ‘Who searches, finds’ we say. The two guys seem nice and friendly with a laid-back attitude and a good sense of humor. We leave and they promise to let us know by tomorrow when they’ve seen another person interested in the room.
We paid $7.90 (how many minutes of hard work is that?) to become premium members on the Easy Roommate website, so we could see the contacts of other members offering shared accommodation. Browsed about 25 pages and found 3-4 places that seem to meet our needs. Walking distance to the beach, nice roomies, and swimming pool. Can’t bother to have less :) About 3 hours later, after a long shower and quick breakfast (isn’t it supposed to be the other way round: quick shower and long breakfast?), we are down on GC and ready for the surprises that are waiting for us behind these 3 doors. I’m still having nightmares about the last experience with Mr M. the funky geek, and I’m hoping I won’t have any additional ones from today.
Quick chat with Härmo and Anni that have come down from Brisbane to enjoy a day off in the Paradise, even quicker lunch with sushi (the healthiest fast food!), we walk into a bunch of other Estonians. Surprise, surprise! Again this ‘world is becoming small’ feeling. Funny feeling when you think you have come all the way down to Australia and it’s becoming an everyday thing to meet somebody from back home. So we hear that there’s about 6 Estonians living in the same house in Surfers Paradise. Great news, at least we know where to spend Christmas :) Tiit, one of the local Estonians, shows us an accommodation office around the corner, in case we need to see more places, and keeps talking about his life in Surfers. ‘I wake up, I go surfing, I work, I go surfing, I hang around, and I go surfing.’ More or less. We try some of the ads on the office window and send a few more texts. Two French guys are looking for female roommates for a house on Esplanade, the first street back from the beach. Jin-Jin, or Jim (the handwriting is hard to understand), is offering a great value price, just $75 a week in the heart of Surfers. That’s for a sofa bed in the corner of his living room as we later find out. No, thanks! The French guys seem fun (they speak Frenglish ‘This is the rrroom. Arrre you interrrested?’), but for some reasons we aren’t fascinated by their charm, nor the place itself. We walk down to the top end of Surfers to see another place, but that turns out to be a little shack between the skyscrapers. The dream about a great skyline view from our bedroom falls apart, as the house will probably do, too, in the near future if it doesn’t get a complete ‘face lift’. We see one more house where the only thing I like is the glass table in the living room that is actually a big aquarium with heaps of little fish. Never mind, we have one more place to see in Paradise Waters, between Surfers and Main Beach, and that’s a nice one. Kes otsib, see leiab. ‘Who searches, finds’ we say. The two guys seem nice and friendly with a laid-back attitude and a good sense of humor. We leave and they promise to let us know by tomorrow when they’ve seen another person interested in the room.
Thursday
Tomorrow.. Today.. The next day. Whatever. They say yes, but we are back in Surfers. We have received a few more offers for a rent. Why do things always come in loads? I mean, why do you always get something to mess up your mind when you’ve almost made your decision? When there’s nothing, there’s nothing, and when there’s something, there’s more than one. It must be one of the Murphy laws.
Anyway, the result is this. We are staying in Chevron Towers for a week and move down to Monte Carlo Ave on Broadbeach the week after. Chevron Towers is a 3-tower complex in the very center of Surfers. Perfect location, amazing ocean view from our bedroom on the 20th floor, and a huge pool and Jacuzzi with a little sand beach (real!!) and palm trees on the 6th floor of the Skyline North Tower (where we stay). Under the sky.. and the stars, in Paradise :)
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