What's so good about Australia?
#32
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Re: What's so good about Australia?
Australian cities really don't begin to compare with the great European ones when it comes to urban lifestyle
#33
Re: What's so good about Australia?
Australia might not be the best in the world at any of the individual things listed in the original post. But put them all together and where have you got? Australia. Not really anywhere else like it.
#42
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Location: Gold Coast Australia
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Re: What's so good about Australia?
You can't beat Tasmania for wonderful countryside. It is also part of Australia so I dont think you need to visit NZ or English countryside, its all in Tassie.
#43
Re: What's so good about Australia?
And Tassie is second on my list to visit, if not first ... depends on finances.
#44
Re: What's so good about Australia?
It's also fair to say there are a lot of things that look similar. I'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between a dunnart, antechinus and a hopping mouse from a distance.
#45
Re: What's so good about Australia?
Is it? I've been there three times and its always been pissing it down.
If anyone comes to Australia for cuisine, culture, city life they will be mightily disappointed. The wildlife, coast and outback are great but you need months to drive around and experience it - a couple of weeks holiday will just be hideously expensive trying to pack in the tourist ticks.
Any marine enthusiast or sailor will love Oz for a holiday - around the Whitsundays and reef around whale season. Ningaloo reef is also fantastic but Exmouth is bloody remote and there's nowt else there. FNQ for a few months a year is worth it - but visit from Sep through to April and you'll be sweating like a paedo in a clown suit. Whether it is better than Egypt, the Maldives, Fiji etc for a diving holiday then probably not - the coral isn't as healthy here. Yet, chuck in the humpbacks, minke whales etc and spend a much longer period to drive the coast then may be.
If anyone comes to Australia for cuisine, culture, city life they will be mightily disappointed. The wildlife, coast and outback are great but you need months to drive around and experience it - a couple of weeks holiday will just be hideously expensive trying to pack in the tourist ticks.
Any marine enthusiast or sailor will love Oz for a holiday - around the Whitsundays and reef around whale season. Ningaloo reef is also fantastic but Exmouth is bloody remote and there's nowt else there. FNQ for a few months a year is worth it - but visit from Sep through to April and you'll be sweating like a paedo in a clown suit. Whether it is better than Egypt, the Maldives, Fiji etc for a diving holiday then probably not - the coral isn't as healthy here. Yet, chuck in the humpbacks, minke whales etc and spend a much longer period to drive the coast then may be.