Now thats nearly more shopping than I can possible imagine.
It was cloudy yesterday. No sun on the Gold Coast – so we went shopping. In my defense this was an absolutely necessity – I brought the wrong swimming costume with me and needed a new one.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it OK?
Now we are staying in Surfers Paradise, so basically one very long beach. Oddly enough though, the part we are actually staying in has lots of shops. And not just shops of tacky beach souvenirs – though there are plenty. No – we have Gucci, Louis Vuitton: the whole nine yards of overpriced “designer” stuff for people with more money than I have.
Actually to be fair you could probably be quite happy just with what’s here at the beach, especially after 5 years of living in Wellington. There’s a fair range, with a nice mix of the overprices designer crap, normal high street stores and a few interesting boutiques – and the odd “alternative” shop which I miss so much.
But for real shopping apparently the place to do is Robina Town Centre. I was all ready to head to the bright lights of Brisbane City – but was told that this might be a better option. Turns out that was a good call.
Apart from the oddity of a rather large Shopping centre being called a Town centre – oh the bliss of being in a proper Mall. Lost of shops, proper Department stores (rather than the stuffy and ridiculously old fashioned Kirkaldie and Staines – complete with naff café and dolled up pianist that we have to make do with in Welly).
Proper shops.
In fact I would have been in utter raptures for the Borders store alone except that we finally got one in Wellington a couple of years ago. And I was in raptures over the sheer number of shoe shops. I need to point out that I don’t in fact buy hundreds of pairs of shoes – I just happen to like good (and expensive) shoes that last for years, and New Zealand doesn’t have a huge choice of them – so this for me is the pinnacle of shopping heaven – even if I’m not going to buy a dozen pairs.
In the end I bought my swimming cozzie – from the Speedo Store – cos they had one, but thoroughly enjoyed my morning of window-retail-therapy. I may even go back to finish of my outfit for a night out at Dracula’s.
Hubby reckons this is why so many Kiwis think moving to Australia is such a cool idea – they just don’t have this kind of shopping mecca that we are used to. I’m not so taken with it. It’s nice to visit, but for me there’s just too many people and too much noise. I find this whenever I have left NZ for a trip abroad – I love the new novelty of being able to “shop” but I’m ever so glad that I get to go home to the peace and quite of the Wairarapa!
Besides – the coffee is just not up to scratch!
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Domestic Executive on
Sat, 22nd May 2010 8:31 pm
I can’t wait for my bouts of retail therapy in Sydney and Melbourne later this year. I feel relieved that I’m not the only one who thinks that shopping in Wellington is not that great. Hail the internet and international post!
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