We woke up around 10 am, Beth, Wendy’s daughter came over and we went to the Cronulla beach, which is 5 minutes walking from the house. The beach was nice, full of surfers, like anywhere in Australia and full of seagals looking of food and walking around like pigeons.
Luciano came from the city and spend the day with us. In the evening we decided to go to CS meeting, in a Courthouse pub in Sydney. Amy, one of Sydney city CS ambassadors, was leaving to Thailand for 2 months and it was her farewell party.
I had a brief look at her profile and some more cs-ers, you know to find people easier in the bar, but we thought if we get into the bar and see a bunch of people, that will be it – doesn’t have to be hard to find. We were wrong! :-D
While waiting for the train to go to Newtown (the area where the pub was), we didn't hesitate to have some beers :-D
The pub was called Courthouse hotel - actually it was a hotel with a bar on the first floor, but in Australia, in general, any place which has “hotel” written on the building has a pub and people go there to drink. Of course you can stay there too, but it is not the most popular place, since its noisy and not very nice place to stay (it doesn’t include famous hotel chains, like Hilton, Marriot etc, but just simple Hotels in the city.
Anyway, we entered the bar and didn’t see any big group of people inside. All I knew about Amy that she was tall, so we are looking for a tall girl and in general for a group of colorful people, as CS meeting always are. When we exit to the terrace of the bar – Oh My GOD! There were about 20 big tables outside with about 20 big groups of people – girls and guys and ANY of them could be a CS group. We thought we will never find them here, the only chance is to start asking every table – Couchsurfing? Couchsurfing? :-D
Then we had a better look at the tables outside:
1)A table with lesbians – was looking aggressive and confident, one of them really was scary with a chain across her neck and cowboy boots, others were gothic looking, kind of…
2)A table with tattoo boys – they seemed to be like “Maroon 5” band - skinny and painted in different colors – by the time we have arrived, around 10 pm , they were looking kind of “happy” :-D
3)Other tables were more or less similar, with mixed groups but somehow all of them were mostly Caucasians.
So the question of the evening was – How to find a group of freaks in a bar of freaks?
Then we saw a strangest group – different color people mixed with different age people, we thought – this might be it! In the same moment a tall girl entered the terrace from the bar, together with a shorter girl, a dark skinned guy and another Indian looking guy with kind of a sock on the head (the one that sikh wear). This was our chance – Couchsurfing? Couchsurfing? – Jullian asked and Indian guy said – “Yes! Yes!”
Finally!!! We have found them!:-D
Well, now when we found them, we had a drink and a chat with couple of CS-ers. Beer was 12 Australian dollars (8 Euros) for 1 liter, which was kind of cheap for Australia. What I have noticed about Australians - they drink a lot (as Spanish people do), but the difference is that they drink very fast.
By the time that we had to leave to catch the last train to Cronulla, around 11.30 pm, half of the guys were pretty drunk. I asked one guy from the group, Sam, who was holding rum & coke – “how many drinks have you had this evening?”, “5 of these”, he said and looked at me with his dizzy eyes :-D
Not a surprise that at 1 am all of them will end up sleeping under the table :-D
We caught the last train to Cornulla and got home safely :-D
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