Australia help

[Tazio]

I've never really fancied Australia but it looks like I'll be working there next year.

Part of it is a week in Sydney which is fine as I know what to expect. The other cities I'm less familiar with.

So I have 1 week in Woollongong, 1 week in Sydney then back to the UK for a month.

After that I have 1 week in Canberra (pretty dull I've been told), another week in Woollongong (lets hope I enjoy the first week) and 3 weeks in Brisbane.

Any tips or advice?

 

[Pfennig]

Be careful of the Drop Bears....

http://australianmuseum.net.au/Drop-Bear

Although on a more serious note, i wouldn't worry about it. Looks like your gonna get some travel in whilst your over here, and you'll get some warmth in Brisbane! Admittedly Canberra is quite dull from my experience, but i've heard there is some great mountain biking there if you get the chance.

 

[highlandsflyer]

Start drinking around 5% more than you normally do, working up to 400% by the time your wheels touch down in Oz. Listen to some Kevin Bloody Wilson.

 

[Tazio]

Start drinking around 5% more than you normally do, working up to 400% by the time your wheels touch down in Oz. Listen to some Kevin Bloody Wilson.

In my experience of Australians the drinking thing should be easy, even with my dislike of fizzy lager. I'm Scottish after all.

I find Kevin Wilson about as funny as polio.

 

[Tazio]

Be careful of the Drop Bears....

http://australianmuseum.net.au/Drop-Bear

Although on a more serious note, i wouldn't worry about it. Looks like your gonna get some travel in whilst your over here, and you'll get some warmth in Brisbane! Admittedly Canberra is quite dull from my experience, but i've heard there is some great mountain biking there if you get the chance.

Drop bears are no worry to me, I've spent a lot of my life hunting down and fighting wild haggis.

 

[highlandsflyer]

Caught polio's last tour, the best one yet.

I thought I was a drinker until I joined a mate on a bus pub crawl in New Zealand. Oz, especially rural, knows how to make the morning painful.

I find the easy going bbg and beer nature of the average Oz evening enticing, I see no reason you will get bored. Love their biking too.

 

[Tazio]

Caught polio's last tour, the best one yet.

I thought I was a drinker until I joined a mate on a bus pub crawl in New Zealand. Oz, especially rural, knows how to make the morning painful.

I find the easy going bbg and beer nature of the average Oz evening enticing, I see no reason you will get bored. Love their biking too.

I'm sure the genuine working class Ocker is a pretty hard drinking bloke, sadly I don't think I'll see too many of them. I've always found Kiwis more down to earth types that I get on with better. Not saying I've not met a lot of good Australians though.

 

[highlandsflyer]

You have met a lot of bad ones?

 

[Tazio]

You have met a lot of bad ones?

A few, pretty much as we send over there. It seems like a posh kids exchange scheme sometimes. In no way do I take that as an example of typical Australians though. Any nmore than I would expect an Australian to base all Brits on the gap year types they receive.

 

[FST4RD]

I lived in Melbourne for a year, loved it! Great city.
Get a tax file number before you get there, you get them from the ATO.
Most Australian tastes like crap and it's so so expensive (compared to NZ). Only beer I would drink was Carlton Cold...