Haven't decided which shoulder season to do it in: before or after the northern hemisphere winter. Haven't decided on air carrier. Anticipate at week minimum in MEL before heading to the northern coast and spending some time in the interior, with a several day return to MEL before departure. Asking for any and all trusty recommendations and wild suggestions for wine, food, accommodations, opportunities and occasions for debauchery, relaxation, culture high and common, locales urban and remote, things to do and things to avoid.
Sir Cranium, I hope your encyclopedia is near to hand.
Planning Melbourne and Oz for a month
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dovecanyoncat
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Planning Melbourne and Oz for a month
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What's the attraction? I'm not critical of anyone's decision to go to Australia. Just never got the appeal when there are so many awesome places to travel to in the world.
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The large Aussie cities are diverse cultural gardens. Melbourne has the largest population of Greeks outside of Athens. Wine culture is remarkable. Food, sea and terrestrial, is outstanding. Landscape: coastline and coastal mountain ranges are magnificent. I cannot wait to smell the deep interior. Biodiversity: can't pick bones if you like rain forests, savanna, desert, plains. Most of all, for me, is the primitive spirit of an island continent below the equator. It's otherness is garbed in an unrecognizable family of familiars that you know cannot be native to your understanding. I find mysterious and perplexing to be ever south of the sun. How anyone could go there not be moved off their own personal axis is beyond me.
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What an awesome response. I should have asked before. Thanks.
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They have a host of critters singular to the island, and Aussies themselves are unique: minimum wage is nearly 18 buck in local currency.
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I want to go. But I don't think I'll want to come back if I do.
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The chances of dying in a mass shooting are nearly zero. They learned their lesson long ago.UAEebs86 wrote:I want to go. But I don't think I'll want to come back if I do.
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dovecanyoncat wrote:The chances of dying in a mass shooting are nearly zero. They learned their lesson long ago.UAEebs86 wrote:I want to go. But I don't think I'll want to come back if I do.
That's because they are a civilized nation.
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True, someone with a gun won't kill you, but everything else wants to.dovecanyoncat wrote:The chances of dying in a mass shooting are nearly zero. They learned their lesson long ago.UAEebs86 wrote:I want to go. But I don't think I'll want to come back if I do.
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Are the Aussie women uh, accommodating?
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Well prostitution is legal and there are massage shops on just about every block, so yeah, I'd say you won't have any issues on that front.
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