Coogee - Round 1

The next day, myself and Jay headed out to Coogee cos that’s where Graham and the other lads were living. When we got there, parking was just as difficult as parking in the city as everywhere was metered and only 2 hour parking. We found the lads place easy enough but of course, there was no answer at the door and the security gate was locked. We heard some lads upstairs making noise so we shouted up to them. Of course they were Irish so they buzzed us in the gate and told us which flat the lads were living in.

So we went inside the building and hammered on their door. Graham was the only one home and he stumbled out of bed hung-over and let us in. He was surprised to see us of course but said we could crash there for the next two nights no problem. They had a sofa bed in their sitting room so it was handy enough.

We managed to watch the golf that day in a place called the Palace which was a really nice sports bar. We headed back to the lads place later that night and we went upstairs to another apartment where Irish girls were living that the lads hung around with. We had a great laugh in there and even made some prank phone calls to Ireland funnily enough.. Then we all went down to the Coogee Bay Hotel (CBH). There were three sections to this place, a sports bar, music bar, and a beer garden. It was pretty cool and we got to see the live premiership matches in there.

We were all pretty hung over on the Sunday so we just stayed in and watched Finding Nemo on tv. The only thing about Aussie TV though is there are far too many ad breaks during movies. Jay went out to try to catch the end of the golf but it wasn’t being shown that day. Europe ran away with it of course so we knew they were gonna win anyway.

Monday came and we went back into town to pick up Roisin. We had a nice long drive to Melbourne coming up.