...The Saviour goes Australia...

The Saviour wrote:

Gidday !

...me is lucky to let you know going to Australia for vacation this year...

...timetable: April 17, Sydney - then moving north - a coastline tour !; May 13, Cairns - the last day...

...maybe I visit Canberra (wenn ich eingeladen werde) - but Adelaide is too far away...

...I'm looking forward to it !...

cheers,

The Saviour.

no point in going to Canberra unless you like Porn. fuck all there except government buildings and Porn Supermarkets. and the beaches take ages to get to.

Go to Sydney. places like Kings Cross and Newtown are sound.

and you can always spend a lovely evening in Redfern, mingling with the indigenous locals.

J.A.K wrote:

The Saviour wrote:

Gidday !

...me is lucky to let you know going to Australia for vacation this year...

...timetable: April 17, Sydney - then moving north - a coastline tour !; May 13, Cairns - the last day...

...maybe I visit Canberra (wenn ich eingeladen werde) - but Adelaide is too far away...

...I'm looking forward to it !...

cheers,

The Saviour.

no point in going to Canberra unless you like Porn. fuck all there except government buildings and Porn Supermarkets. and the beaches take ages to get to.

Go to Sydney. places like Kings Cross and Newtown are sound.

and you can always spend a lovely evening in Redfern, mingling with the indigenous locals.

Sounded right up your street to me!:D

CTB wrote:

Glad you enjoyed it, Nancyo - pity you saw my team get beaten by one point, tho! CTB

Ah yes, that was a heartbreaker. The St. Kilda fan I was with informed me that Collingwood has the ugliest-looking fans in the league...

My immediate concern now is where am I going to be able to get a pot/pint of V.B. or Cooper's Sparkling Ale? Even the Aussie pub down the street only has Foster's on draught :\ohwell:

Funny how Fosters has always been marketed overseas as this iconic Australian beer when no-one here drinks it. And if you love sport, music and food you won't get a much better place to live than Melbourne.

So what do Aussies drink then since Fosters is not the drink of choice?

From a beer perspective, in Melbourne VB (Victoria Bitter) and Melbourne Bitter are the two big local beers with Crown Lager the slightly "smarter" choice. Apart from that it's mainly imported beers like Heineken, Stella etc. The kind of pubs that I frequent are the pool playing, rock 'n roll soundtrack, alternative kind, so I can't really speak for the smarter bars/clubs, where I'm pretty sure they'd laugh at you if you tried to order a beer.

I hail from Brisbane,. Saviour. Or Brisvegas, if you will. Tongue firmly in cheek there.

There is not really much for a tourist here but it is a good place to love. Things are close and accessible and pretty but we haven't any real destinations per se. We're a good stopover on the way to the beaches, but.

I aggree, Melbourne is the best place to visit. Never been to Sydney.

nancyo wrote: Ah yes, that was a heartbreaker. The St. Kilda fan I was with informed me that Collingwood has the ugliest-looking fans in the league...

Gold!

You copped a really valuable piece of local knowledge there, Nancyo. They just don't tell you stuff like that in the tourist guides.

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J.A.K wrote: no point in going to Canberra unless you like Porn. fuck all there except government buildings and Porn Supermarkets. and the beaches take ages to get to.

You gonna wear that one, Ronny?

I mean, when a scouse starts offloading on your city it's got to hurt.

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[orange]depthcharge[/orange] wrote:

J.A.K wrote: no point in going to Canberra unless you like Porn. fuck all there except government buildings and Porn Supermarkets. and the beaches take ages to get to.

You gonna wear that one, Ronny?

I mean, when a scouse starts offloading on your city it's got to hurt.

:\pimp3:

well he right about the porn supermarkets. :D

Emma Peel wrote: So what do Aussies drink then since Fosters is not the drink of choice?

Depends what State you live in. Here in South Australia Coopers Pale Ale is huge, then probably West End Draught.

vb, or carlton, both from the house of fosters.

Don't mean to get too forthright here, but Fosters is shit, and Crown more so (being the same as Fosters only repackaged for knobheads who think that because it's more expensive, then it must be better. It's not).

Carlton Draught is IMHO probably the best domestic mass-produced beer here, Coopers is certainly OK, VB is adequate if nothing better is available....then a sizeable portion of daylight...then all the rest. CandyTheBeer-snob

shot bru wrote: Funny how Fosters has always been marketed overseas as this iconic Australian beer when no-one here drinks it.

B-b-but, Foster's is "Australian for Beer"! Everybody here knows that.

In Tas I quite liked the James Boag's Premium.

...sorry to bring this thread back to the top - naaah - just kidding, hehehe...

...finally I got the tickets, can't await the adventure's begin...

...will get a digicam (incl. advice !) shortly, I'm a technical minus man...

...FAO nooligan (Ron): I'll arrive Sydney on Apr.17, and I'll grab a car on Apr.21, ready to go to A.C.T. ...

...more to come via PM...

cheers, The Saviour.

The Saviour wrote: ...sorry to bring this thread back to the top - naaah - just kidding, hehehe...

...finally I got the tickets, can't await the adventure's begin...

...will get a digicam (incl. advice !) shortly, I'm a technical minus man...

...FAO nooligan (Ron): I'll arrive Sydney on Apr.17, and I'll grab a car on Apr.21, ready to go to A.C.T. ...

...more to come via PM...

cheers, The Saviour.

welome saviour. the saviour comes to oz for easter.