<\/a>It’s like a highly commercialized Boracay. Well, even more commercial than what Boracay is now, but with more concrete, steel, glass and huge theme parks, not just a kiddie ferris wheel at D’Mall. It’s almost impossible not to see these high-rises that has sprouted near the beach. One minute you’re staring off into the horizon, feeling as though you’re at the edge of the world. A slight turn of the head and you see these structures, reminding you that you are indeed in the city, and not in some remote island.<\/p>\nI guess I’ve Gold Coast have been in my mind lately because at the back of my mind, I know that despite its lack of character, soul and charm, I still want to give it another shot. I’ve probably just scratched the surface, and who knows? Maybe there *is* character underneath all that facade.<\/p>\n
And next time, I’ll make sure I’ll visit with friends or family in tow. Theme parks aren’t fun if you’re alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve been thinking about the Gold Coast for a couple of days now. It’s like I have this craving to be there or visit again, which is odd because I didn’t like the place. Well, it’s not like I hated it, but for me, it seemed that the Gold Coast lacked character. I guess this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,2,67],"tags":[1884,1888,596],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justwandering.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justwandering.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justwandering.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justwandering.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justwandering.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/justwandering.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3032,"href":"https:\/\/justwandering.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/3032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justwandering.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justwandering.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justwandering.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}