Brisbane Hotel Entry
Well tonight I was supposed to be typing up the mediocre brilliance of the first of a several part entry of my first tour guide experience here in
Australia. Instead here I am in my Brisbane hotel room watching the UK Open Dart competition between Scottish male Robert Thornton and Russian female Anastasia Dobromyslova. I’m staying at the Urban Brisbane Hotel, which let us all down with their $27 a night internet price tag, but has redeemed themselves (not really) with their $5 domestic and import beer price from their in room mini bar. I’m up to $30 which makes me regret my not stopping at one of the many bottle shops located in this part of Spring Hill in order to help me get through a night of bad television and a narrowly escaped internet raping of my wallet. I could have gone with the $19 tiny 375ml bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon, but that’s just a rip off now isn’t it?
You are either on a business trip in a foreign hotel room or completely losing your mind when you find yourself jumping up and cheering for someone who just won a leg of a dart match on the TV. Anastasia Dobromyslova is a 24 year old Russian who just married a fellow darts player this month. She is the current womans champion and tonight is taking on the men. This competition is intense. These two gladiators of the forearm and limp wrist are fighting the battle of their….well, night. And she lost. The sexism was thick. You could tell the Scot didn’t want to lose to a woman, which he almost did. We all hoped she would have won…but not this time.
Okay, so the point of this entry is really just to buy myself time. I planned on doing an entry a night whilst up here for business and maybe I still can, but not being able to access the internet in my room and do proper research on the misinformation highway put a stop to that. You know you you’ve had one too many $5 Hahn Premiums when you get teary eyed at a portion of Shipwrecked Island at 1am. Okay, maybe two too many $5 Hahns…
