So with brolly in hand we set off to check out Pacific Fair Shopping Centre. It is a huge place and not very well set out. It seemed every time we wanted to go to a shop it was at the opposite end of this huge Shopping Centre.
In Big W they had budgie smugglers on special. I always wear a pair under my boardshorts when bike riding. After a bike ride when the weather suits it is straight into the pool, shorts T-Shirts and all so bathers under the board shorts are a must. At $5 a pair it was too good a deal to pass up.
So we wandered around Pacific Fair from end to end racking up the steps on my Fitness watch. At the end of the day I have a new 'steps' record of around 12,000 steps.
We made our way back to the hotel room after lunch to enjoy a quenching ale and to rest up a little. Unfortunately Trish's phone slipped from the table onto the floor smashing the screen. As many of you know I tend to buy my phones from China and limit my budget to under $250. At this price if something goes wrong I haven't spent an arm and a leg on the phone. For us a $250 phone from China has all the bells and whistles you get on a phone here at twice the price.
We found a smashed Xiaomi screen repair place at Pacific Fair but the Indian chap we spoke with said the repair would be around $150 even if he could get a new screen for this model. We were better off buying a new phone. Being from India he said Xiaomi phones were one of the best brands available in his country and he highly recommended if we were to buy a new phone, grab another Xiaomi!
These phones do everything we could possibly want so why should we pay hundreds and hundreds of dollars for a phone with all the bells and whistles, many of which we don't want or need! The downside is if something goes wrong, (like a smashed screen) you are up the proverbial creek without a paddle.
So Trish will have a new Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 phone in a few weeks from a world renowned manufacturer. The phone with the busted screen still works fine and being a Xiaomi phone we spent a little time yesterday working out the old phone's sync to backup. So when Trish's new phone turns up we log into her Xiaomi account and download her backup onto it. She will get back all her contacts, all her pictures, all her apps and all her messages.
We hit a Greek place for tea last night. It was OK but not anything as good as George's Greek Tavern in Caulfield.
Day 2 (today) at the Gold Coast showed us some patches of blue sky though the wind continued to howl and there were showers scudding through all day. So this time we went the other way (without the umbrella) and into I guess what you would call Broadbeach South. It was another walk around looking at what was happening. There were plenty of eateries for us to check out as well but we finished up with lunch at the Kurrawa Surf Club which is where I grabbed the photo above.
Carlton Draught at $5-50 a pint was a huge windfall!
The 12000 steps from the previous day had taken their toll and the hips were a little painful after a longish walk. So in between the showers we headed back to the Avani Residences to recuperate and possibly enjoy a few more ales!
Trish has a bit of a cold too which slows things down a little for us.
So we reckon it might be Persian for tea, something a little different!
We head back to the Sunny Coast tomorrow and we expect to arrive home around midday or so. But already we have decided to pop into Sunnybank's Malaya Corner where we'll grab some take away which will be prefect for our first evening meal back at home tomorrow.
Of all the meals we have had while away for this short trip, our lunch at Sunnybank on our way down to the Gold Coast has been our most enjoyable of all the places where we have eaten.
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