Exchange between American tourist and Australian
Sep 10th 2005, 3:23 am
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Exchange between American tourist and Australian
Took 6 weeks to drive casually Melbourne to Cairns, asshole. Got off
the highway and stayed couple days in many towns on the way. Spent a
few days in Manly and took ferry from there to spend some time in
Sydney again.
PJ>
<Would Manly be one of the "towns" you stayed in then?
Craig>
I guess your qoutes mean I am attacked again for "nomenclature". OK. I
hope it makes your day but I guess you are inferring that Manly is an
extension of metropolitan Sydney.
Without calling the credit card company to verify, I believe it was '88
when we first visited Sydney after I retired in '87. It was right
after your bicentennial. Does that sound right? We had been to New
Zealand for the first time , flying from Honolulu to Christ Church.
After renting a car and touring South Island we went up to North island
and Auckland and then
flew over to Sydney. I am sure somebody will correct if I should have
said
"up" to Sydney.
My wife is the youngest of her siblings by over 10 years. Her big
brother
spent time in New Zealand with the US Marine Corps during WWII before
going into combat in the Pacific. He came back with pictures and she
always wanted to go to New Zealand but we didn't have time due to the
distance until I retired, so we focused on shorter trips to Europe
before. Since we were relatively close, I thought we should check out
Sydney. We liked New Zealand but were captivated with Sydney and
Australia.
When we went to Sydney, the first time, we stayed in a hotel, I forget
the name of, right on the harbor adjacent to or in the Rocks. We took
the usual tourist day bus and harbor tours, hiked the bridge and one
day took the ferry from circular quay (Sp?) for a day in Manly. We
decided that day we would return to see more of Australia and stay in
Manly when in the Sydney
area.
Without checking the credit card bills, I believe in '88, we connected
to Melboune, stayed near the University there after touring Melbourne
picked up a car and headed North toward Sydney and eventually North of
Cairns. I recall staying places like Lakes Entrance in Victoria, Eden,
perimbula ulladulla, woolongong, and some place where the ocean was
spouting out of the rocks, guess in NSW. I recall being thrown for a
loop driving when the right of way rules changed between Victoria and
NSW particularly at the circles ("roundabouts"?)
We then went on to Manly stayed in the Pacific something right across
from the beautiful beach there. Found one of our favorite restaurants
in the world
at Shelley? beach. You had walk on a walkway along the ocean to get
there. We returned to Manly a several times later, laying over in
Sydney to several days to go on to other destinations staying at a
smaller Radisson further down the beachcloser to our favorite
restaurant.
Venturing further North in 88, I recall particularly Byron Bay and all
the young topless girls there and then into beautiful Queensland and
Noosa.
We found a neat condo right acroos from the beach at the edge of Noosa
Heads Park that we have returned to several times, last time '98. We
liked to go down also to Mooloolaba (sp.) for day drives and lunch. We
usually go Australia beginning of Feb when the kids there are back in
school and some of the luxury hotels are unbelievably reasonable for
us. In past years we took a small ferry and stayed at a really neat
resort on Fraser Island a few days once, checked out Dunk, Hamilton and
maybe Magnetic? each for a day.
Another favorite is beautiful, tropical Cairns which we visit at every
opportunity.
Since we are really not beach people the fact that ocean swimming is
not recommended there due to the lethal "sea wasps", "jelly fish"
("nomenclature" correction, please) in Feb does not bother us in the
least.
One of the major luxury hotels there seems to ,cater to the group tours
which we try to avoid. We stay at another right on the main street
along the bay, river, harbor
whatever is the "correct nomenclature" for that body of water in Cairns
with the mountains in the background. With the right room one can get a
view of both from
the balcony. Evenings n those balconies with a few glasses of the
excellent Australian wine before dinner and watching the tropical
birds swoop in is a real delight before dinner. There is a neat
restaurant there adjacent to the hotel, right on the
water, Tullys or Tallys, I hope it is still there. We enjoy the
barramundi (sp?) with prawn sauce there which brings up an interesting
gastronomic situation for me.
Approaching my 74th birthday, my digestive system has become
increasingly intolerant of shell fish to the point i have had to avoid
it at home years ago.
However, I do not appear to have the problem with Australian shell
fish. Last time in Noosa in 98, I had the delightful Moreton Bay Bugs
every single night without incident. If i tried those baby lobsters at
home I would prepare to meet my maker.
May one of the "mates" here could explain? Thanks and thanks for
giving me the opportunity to recollect on the enjoyable and stimulating
experiences, i have had visiting Australia. Which reminds me...
One of our trips early 90's (would have to check credit card records),
we started
out from our closest international airport in Atlanta and flew to San
Francisco to
visit our son who was at Berkeley, then on to Honolulu for a few days.
Then I don't recall whether it was Brisbane with a some days in Noosa
or Sydney with some days in Manly but then on to Perth in the west.
Recall visiting Freemantel, Port Arthur, rotsnest or ratsnest which is
a beautiful island despite its name Checked National georgraphic maps
and discovered we were just about half way around before we left
and decided not to turn around to go home from Perth. We then proceeded
to fly to Singapore, visited up the peninsula to Malaysia and then flew
to Athens and did the typical tourist things tourists do in Greece. We
then flew on to London and from London which is like visiting Newark
NJ, so we flew back to Atlanta from there ASAP and then to our
daughter's house nearby in Marietta to pick up our car to drive back
250 + miles home to SW Georgia to enjoy the early March spring and the
Japanese magnolia trees in bloom followed shortly thereafter by the
profusion of azaleas in bloom.
the highway and stayed couple days in many towns on the way. Spent a
few days in Manly and took ferry from there to spend some time in
Sydney again.
PJ>
<Would Manly be one of the "towns" you stayed in then?
Craig>
I guess your qoutes mean I am attacked again for "nomenclature". OK. I
hope it makes your day but I guess you are inferring that Manly is an
extension of metropolitan Sydney.
Without calling the credit card company to verify, I believe it was '88
when we first visited Sydney after I retired in '87. It was right
after your bicentennial. Does that sound right? We had been to New
Zealand for the first time , flying from Honolulu to Christ Church.
After renting a car and touring South Island we went up to North island
and Auckland and then
flew over to Sydney. I am sure somebody will correct if I should have
said
"up" to Sydney.
My wife is the youngest of her siblings by over 10 years. Her big
brother
spent time in New Zealand with the US Marine Corps during WWII before
going into combat in the Pacific. He came back with pictures and she
always wanted to go to New Zealand but we didn't have time due to the
distance until I retired, so we focused on shorter trips to Europe
before. Since we were relatively close, I thought we should check out
Sydney. We liked New Zealand but were captivated with Sydney and
Australia.
When we went to Sydney, the first time, we stayed in a hotel, I forget
the name of, right on the harbor adjacent to or in the Rocks. We took
the usual tourist day bus and harbor tours, hiked the bridge and one
day took the ferry from circular quay (Sp?) for a day in Manly. We
decided that day we would return to see more of Australia and stay in
Manly when in the Sydney
area.
Without checking the credit card bills, I believe in '88, we connected
to Melboune, stayed near the University there after touring Melbourne
picked up a car and headed North toward Sydney and eventually North of
Cairns. I recall staying places like Lakes Entrance in Victoria, Eden,
perimbula ulladulla, woolongong, and some place where the ocean was
spouting out of the rocks, guess in NSW. I recall being thrown for a
loop driving when the right of way rules changed between Victoria and
NSW particularly at the circles ("roundabouts"?)
We then went on to Manly stayed in the Pacific something right across
from the beautiful beach there. Found one of our favorite restaurants
in the world
at Shelley? beach. You had walk on a walkway along the ocean to get
there. We returned to Manly a several times later, laying over in
Sydney to several days to go on to other destinations staying at a
smaller Radisson further down the beachcloser to our favorite
restaurant.
Venturing further North in 88, I recall particularly Byron Bay and all
the young topless girls there and then into beautiful Queensland and
Noosa.
We found a neat condo right acroos from the beach at the edge of Noosa
Heads Park that we have returned to several times, last time '98. We
liked to go down also to Mooloolaba (sp.) for day drives and lunch. We
usually go Australia beginning of Feb when the kids there are back in
school and some of the luxury hotels are unbelievably reasonable for
us. In past years we took a small ferry and stayed at a really neat
resort on Fraser Island a few days once, checked out Dunk, Hamilton and
maybe Magnetic? each for a day.
Another favorite is beautiful, tropical Cairns which we visit at every
opportunity.
Since we are really not beach people the fact that ocean swimming is
not recommended there due to the lethal "sea wasps", "jelly fish"
("nomenclature" correction, please) in Feb does not bother us in the
least.
One of the major luxury hotels there seems to ,cater to the group tours
which we try to avoid. We stay at another right on the main street
along the bay, river, harbor
whatever is the "correct nomenclature" for that body of water in Cairns
with the mountains in the background. With the right room one can get a
view of both from
the balcony. Evenings n those balconies with a few glasses of the
excellent Australian wine before dinner and watching the tropical
birds swoop in is a real delight before dinner. There is a neat
restaurant there adjacent to the hotel, right on the
water, Tullys or Tallys, I hope it is still there. We enjoy the
barramundi (sp?) with prawn sauce there which brings up an interesting
gastronomic situation for me.
Approaching my 74th birthday, my digestive system has become
increasingly intolerant of shell fish to the point i have had to avoid
it at home years ago.
However, I do not appear to have the problem with Australian shell
fish. Last time in Noosa in 98, I had the delightful Moreton Bay Bugs
every single night without incident. If i tried those baby lobsters at
home I would prepare to meet my maker.
May one of the "mates" here could explain? Thanks and thanks for
giving me the opportunity to recollect on the enjoyable and stimulating
experiences, i have had visiting Australia. Which reminds me...
One of our trips early 90's (would have to check credit card records),
we started
out from our closest international airport in Atlanta and flew to San
Francisco to
visit our son who was at Berkeley, then on to Honolulu for a few days.
Then I don't recall whether it was Brisbane with a some days in Noosa
or Sydney with some days in Manly but then on to Perth in the west.
Recall visiting Freemantel, Port Arthur, rotsnest or ratsnest which is
a beautiful island despite its name Checked National georgraphic maps
and discovered we were just about half way around before we left
and decided not to turn around to go home from Perth. We then proceeded
to fly to Singapore, visited up the peninsula to Malaysia and then flew
to Athens and did the typical tourist things tourists do in Greece. We
then flew on to London and from London which is like visiting Newark
NJ, so we flew back to Atlanta from there ASAP and then to our
daughter's house nearby in Marietta to pick up our car to drive back
250 + miles home to SW Georgia to enjoy the early March spring and the
Japanese magnolia trees in bloom followed shortly thereafter by the
profusion of azaleas in bloom.
Sep 10th 2005, 2:44 pm
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Re: Exchange between American tourist and Australian
> Took 6 weeks to drive casually Melbourne to Cairns, asshole. (Tourettes
> Syndrome ?) Got off
> the highway and stayed couple days in many towns on the way. Spent a
> few days in Manly and took ferry from there to spend some time in
> Sydney again.
> PJ>
> Syndrome ?) Got off
> the highway and stayed couple days in many towns on the way. Spent a
> few days in Manly and took ferry from there to spend some time in
> Sydney again.
> PJ>
