Making full use of the freebies

Our hostel is so lovely. We get a extensive range of breakfast, snacks and drinks included as well as free laundry and a movie room to use. It's been a while since we washed clothes and when it's so hot here everything needs washing pretty quickly. After our mammoth travelling day yesterday we decided to make use of all the facilities and relax for the start of the day. We woke up late with no alarms set and headed down for some breakfast first. I also managed to change our room so we will move later away from the movie room which is good. After breakfast we put on some washing and set up camp in the movie room. They didn't have a great selection but they did have The Legend of Hercules so that's what we spent the next couple of hours watching while going back and forth to the washing machine. At about 2pm everything was washed and dried so we headed out to a famous street here called Jonker Street which happens to be the next parallel road from our hostel anyway. It's full of arty shops and cute cafes and we enjoyed just strolling around the area. We had dinner at an English pub that overlooked the river and I had my first pie since leaving home! It wasn't a patch on my own or my mum's but it was still a lovely taste of back home. We headed to one of the cafes after for some pudding and a drink before returning back to the hostel where we had planned to watch Hotel Transylvania, another movie they had. Turns out it is a pirate copy and after 20 minutes the sound cut out and it said were not allowed to watch this type of film on the TV. We're pretty sure they are all pirate dvds so that's a bit frustrating. Nick went to check if reception had others and the guy lent us his own external hard drive with movies on to use which was lovely of him. We tried to watch the Revenant but we were conscious of the noise, even though it was 7pm, and even with fiddling with the audio settings we couldn't get the voices to be louder than the sound effects. The copy must have very loud background music in comparison to the speaking. With the accents as well we couldn't make out what was being said so after an hour of trying we gave up and watched some programmes on YouTube instead before Nick planned some more accommodation in Australia and we headed to bed. The lazy kind of day we both needed really to recharge.Read more