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whats it like?
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Another world ! warm/friendly/full of life/things to do/ more of an outside life/more opportunity/etc
the list goes on !
Because Australia was a British colony. Canada still has the Queen as well, so do several other former British coloniesc. I guess it's more do to with tradition nowadays.
Susie
Hence her role being merely traditional.
Ahhh....bugger. I thought it didn't make sense. Australia = hot weather = snow. :crazyeyes
But we can't go to Singapore or Fiji so i think i'm stuck on the beach somewhere. If there's a beach in Melbourne...where is Melbourne anyway....*looks for map*...
Melbourne i thought was very "cosmopolitan" & funky but V. Small (as in the town & shops itself)
Where as Sydney was bigger but not so funky the people there were more like people in London rushing around & materialistic & expensive compared to other places
Thinking about it really I love Oz (although i am biased biend 1/2 oz & having family there) but its no more than a glorified Desert really about 80% or so must be uninhabitable !
go with Austravel they are superb sorted all my flights out for a month !
I got a mail the other day from Quantas £499 return to Sydney with 1 free internal can be bad !
when you going ? im going back over (nxt yr) September for 6 weeks !
just got anoter mail too try sta travel they have good deals too for about £499 to sydney
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Athens £107
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Sydney £499
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this is the mail i just got - all the picture bits it wont cut/copy/paste
I was there last Summer, and if it wasn't for lack of cash I would have gone ski-ing.
I spent 3 months in the Australian winter (June, July, August) and it's not all bikinis and swimming shorts. The South Coast gets bloody chilly!
Real snow: http://www.goski.com/1aus.htm
Anyway, winter in Melbourne is like a warmer version of Manchester- windy and rainy. Melbourne itself wont be snowy, it only is once every blue moon, but the Blue Mountains and the Great Dividing Range are alright for snow, generally. It can tend to be fake snow, created by snow machines, but hell, you get that in Val d'Isere.
Melbourne is no longer rushing about like London, but its no small place. Shopping wise its easily as good as Sydney, and it ahs the advantage of not having to deal with yuppie Sydneysiders. The scenery is better too, get down the Mornington Peninsula to Sorrento and the national park, you wont regret it.
yeah, it is...for thsoe on a budget though, the best air fares are found in February and early March.
there are no words for how wrong this is!
grow up