Tuesday 16 December 2008

Day 44. Brisbane, Queensland

Sometimes it just doesn’t pay to be cool, and today was one of those days.

We’d done our research on Brisbane and decided to stay in the bohemian/grungy/painfully trendy Fortune Valley neighbourhood. No boring city centre hotel for us, no, we are way too sophisticated for that, and go where the in-crowd go.

And to be fair, the vibe in Fortune Valley is pretty good – lots of live music, a quirky little Art house cinema and an interesting mix of people in the bars and cafes.

But our accommodation – which we’d paid for in advance – was shocking. Filthy rooms, really bloody noisy and ‘Managed’ by a fat Brummy retard who thought Wend was unreasonable to complain about the blood on the bathroom walls.

“Probably someone with a chipped tooth love, what’s the big deal? Why don’t you just use our other bathroom?”

So we checked out and took a cab to a boring city centre hotel.

Which is exactly what we should have done in the first place.

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