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For the record I am london born n bred.

When I go out for the day with my family i find it spoils the day a bit if i attempt to wring every ounce of value out of it ....

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You'll be right in sydney then, $60 for the family on the filthy train from the airport , $800 for the family to climb the bridge, and $120 for a family hotel breakfast, too cheap? , how about the wanted downunder must do the helicopter ride over the harbour.

Let me guess 'ello ello', you have to meet my dad he used to watch it too you could share your military stories

Free to walk over the bridge footpath, free to walk under the pylons, a few $ for a ferry ride between same. Cooked chicken from Woolies for breakfast $10.80.

More fun and challenge in not being a marketing victim.

AllGoode - I just wondered if you have ever posted on the forum before under a different username - you have a certain style!

...and do you like Silverbeet?

But some people just love to pay the high prices for everything...

The problem is that it was a 8 km drive for that price

I ended up buying local and got :
2kg Cavendish bananas for $2.98
0.545 Kg Mandarins for $1.63
1.062 kg Red Gala Apples for $0.54
1 loaf of bread for $1.49

all up $5.15.. not bad, and the quality is good, so again, not bad

Hi there oh I see you came from Lewisham My dad had a big old victorian house there he used to let off as flats. In lee High road. what part did you live at. This was going back 40 years.

London has alot of parks!I'd say alot of tourists would think also London has some nice views!Ok it might not be sunny or dry 100% of the time,but neither was Adelaide when I lived there.

I was brought up in Brockley Cross but have also lived in Hither Green (Catford but still in borough of Lewisham).

Unfortunately still here but split my time between my flat in NewCross and the family home in Kent (it is all far from glamorous although the wife jokes about the country estate and the city pad). I Normally drive down Lee High Road whenever I visit my parents in Brockley when coming from Kent.

A lot of people try and escape Lewisham and indeed London with IMO very good reasons, I have temporarily been drawn back in but hey there are definitely worse places to live than even NewCross!

Beauty is most decidedly in the mind's eye of the beholder. But have you taken a picnic lunch into London and eaten it in any of the inestimably innumerable parks therein with the express purpose of avoiding having your pockets vacuumed by the restaurants and cafes? Or bought a bun, some sliced ham and cheese from a grocery shop and personally inserted said ham and cheese in said bun with the intent of depriving a sandwich shop of the manufacturing margin?

Hardly much point when you can get a half decent fresh sandwich at Greggs for £2.

Yes we have taken our own lunches in at times,especially when the kids were younger,no different to when we lived in Oz and took our own BBQ stuff to a national park.We have also brought lunches ect in London,but choose carefully where we eat.We're working class folk so Harrods would be out of the equation!

Oh I know all the area"s very well. yes I expect its all changed alot now. My dad sold lee high road for 8,000 pounds befor we came out to oz in about 1971. now it about a millon pounds. Oh wont tell dad that. he mostly came out here for the weather.Thou if we stayed in uk would have been better off money wise dad always moved about alot out here.
I shall be staying out kent when I go back in July near Lenham.. we lived at 364 lee high road near a church. Ive looked it up on Google.
I also lived in brockly when I had a flat Mum & dads first house was at Batavia road New cross & I went to primary school just over the back from there. Its all changed there now thou

Their Coffee and Breakfast Bacon Roll or Breakfast Sausage Roll £1.99 offer:
http://www.greggs.co.uk/deals/

There was a thread a while back about this but UK Whisper gold bars are now 48c at Coles. I prefere Aussie chocolate myself but at that price I had to get a small stash.

Just seen the last comment about Greggs, yes pies and pasties are very expencive in Oz but they are good and have had decent quality meat in the few I have bought here.