From 30 Nov - 17 Dec I've been staying at a place I found on airbnb.com. It's a service where folks with spare room can rent it out to folks who need a place to stay - usually travelers on holiday. It's a bit strange at first, but the two times I've done it, it's been good overall.
Here's the deal: Steve, my host, has a three bedroom apartment in the Grand Hotel. The first two floors of the hotel are privately owned apartments, the top 3 floors are hotel rooms. (This will be important later.) Steve rents out two of the bedrooms in his apartment through airbnb. The pictures are the views that greet me when I arrive home at night.
Then there's Steve. He's 6'2, an esrtwhile volleyball player, fireman, and just applied for an evaluation job with the fire department. I kid you not.
At first glance, this was the perfect spot, with just one drawback. The view outside my bedroom window is a whole lot of train tracks. And if you look in the lower left hand corner of the picture, you can see a tram as well. This corner is a hub of activity: 8 trams run by the front and side of the building and trains come and go from Southern Cross station behind the buildling. Super easy to get anywhere in the city, but not the best venue for the light sleeper.
Is he hot?
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