Australia is too bloody far away....from everything
Jan 12th 2015, 1:33 am
#226
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Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything
Personally, I hate sunny weather - was never a fan of it in the UK and have grown to despise it here. I spend all summer longing for the winter to arrive
One of my favourite pastimes is walking / hiking - something that is hard enough to do here, but the sun makes it impossible for most of the year. The best climate for hiking is cool and even drizzle.
One of my favourite pastimes is walking / hiking - something that is hard enough to do here, but the sun makes it impossible for most of the year. The best climate for hiking is cool and even drizzle.
Jan 12th 2015, 1:36 am
#227
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Jan 12th 2015, 1:39 am
#228
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Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything
Jan 12th 2015, 1:44 am
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Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything
I actually don't mind a bit of mountain biking in the rain. You get covered in mud, the rain cools you down and by the end, you really feel like you've done something.
Jan 12th 2015, 1:48 am
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Yeah, that's what it was like, we were soaked through, covered in mud and it felt great.
Jan 12th 2015, 1:49 am
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Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything
There are many things to do when it's raining - like sitting in a pub
but I wouldn't want to sit on the beach in drizzle 
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Jan 12th 2015, 2:10 am
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Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything
It often seems that sitting on a beach or by a pool, or worse still a BBQ
is many people's idea of an 'outdoor lifestyle'.
Jan 12th 2015, 2:50 am
#233
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Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything
I often go and sit on the beach just to ponder and cogitate. Don't even mind doing it in drizzle. Wouldn't call it a lifestyle though. 
Jan 12th 2015, 2:57 am
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Jan 12th 2015, 3:15 am
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Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything
Lifestyle is something of an advertising/marketing term at best. Really another term for consumption rather than anything more concrete.
One can of course have a good life anywhere. It is how we think about life and are we living the life best suited to our individual desires and needs than some corporate slogan.
Weather only matters in the sense that you are living in the conditions that suite you. Some like it baking others hate that and prefer mildness and rain.
Surely we all know people that only go to cold weather destinations? Well in know a few anyway. The Nordic World would win hands down over any tropical paradise, coming over as boring to those minded people.
Plenty, far more the reverse.
Australia is far, very far for a lot of people who have an interest in regions beyond Bali and Phuket and such like places.
Not forgetting the high cost of health cover over a certain age as well which can be almost as much as the flight.
One can of course have a good life anywhere. It is how we think about life and are we living the life best suited to our individual desires and needs than some corporate slogan.
Weather only matters in the sense that you are living in the conditions that suite you. Some like it baking others hate that and prefer mildness and rain.
Surely we all know people that only go to cold weather destinations? Well in know a few anyway. The Nordic World would win hands down over any tropical paradise, coming over as boring to those minded people.
Plenty, far more the reverse.
Australia is far, very far for a lot of people who have an interest in regions beyond Bali and Phuket and such like places.
Not forgetting the high cost of health cover over a certain age as well which can be almost as much as the flight.
Jan 12th 2015, 3:20 am
#236
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Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything
Brisbane - big market town.
Really
when did you last go there 1960?
Brisbane, like most Australian cities is never going to be in my top cities of the world, but its the third biggest city in Australia.
So Australia goes from Sydney, Melbourne to Country town.
Market town with well over 2 million people. Its a biggie
Really
when did you last go there 1960? Brisbane, like most Australian cities is never going to be in my top cities of the world, but its the third biggest city in Australia.
So Australia goes from Sydney, Melbourne to Country town.
Market town with well over 2 million people. Its a biggie
Brisbane may have been a country town in the past, but not any more.
(The weather is shit though
).
Jan 12th 2015, 3:21 am
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Jan 12th 2015, 5:30 am
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Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything
Three other people at the far end - about a mile away, sun, bue sky and sea, little breeze, picnic. Heaven. Couldn't do it all the time though andcertainly hate crowded beaches, I like the solitary life 
