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by SMITHSWOODSIDE - Top 500, Oct 17 '00
Pros: open spaces Cons: nil
Review Topic: Overview
For vacations, as in the U.S., distance versus time available is the main enemy. Unless you want to be busier than a bricklayer in Beirut, it is simply not possible to see these countries in a month, or...
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by SMITHSWOODSIDE - Top 500, Oct 04 '00
Pros: humour, friendly Cons: none
Review Topic: Overview
Okay, so just what does make up a nation’s psyche, in this case my country Australia. It would seem rather obvious to start at the start, with the first inhabitants, and then look for the clues from...
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by SMITHSWOODSIDE - Top 500, Nov 08 '00
Pros: open space, friendly Cons: nil
Review Topic: Overview
Now, lets make no bones about it, Australia wants and needs tourists. Tourism is a major part of the economy and therefore tourists from all over the world are welcome. Personally, I consider it important...
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by SMITHSWOODSIDE - Top 500, Dec 22 '00
Pros: open space, warm Cons: none
a country such as I firmly believe has no parallel on earth's surface. --The famous Australian explorer Charles Sturt, 1844
Okay, so whats your excuse this time. We have allowed the Pacific Pesos....er...Australian Dollar to fall...
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by SMITHSWOODSIDE - Top 500, Nov 12 '00
Pros: free, space Cons: none
Review Topic: Overview
Australia wants and needs tourists. Tourism is a major part of the economy and therefore tourists from all over the world are welcome. Personally, I consider it important that any prospective tourist has...
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by SMITHSWOODSIDE - Top 500, Nov 12 '00
Pros: big open spaces Cons: nil
Review Topic: Overview
Whatever you do, don't go to Europe. All they have got is a seething mass of Europeans inhabiting old buildings because they can't afford new ones. They can't even speak the lingo, er language. So from...
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by SMITHSWOODSIDE - Top 500, Sep 24 '00
Pros: easy to follow, informative Cons: none
Review Topic: Practical Information
GUIDE TO SPEAKING AUSSI.
I have been asked many times, well er once, well.. ya never know when I might be, just how I convert Australian to American so that my fellow epinionators...
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by SMITHSWOODSIDE - Top 500, Dec 06 '00
Pros: DELIGHTFUL animals Cons: none
Absolutely factual except where it's not
Kookaburra Latin: Laughus Arsusof Earliyus
Crocodiles Latin: Mongrelus bitusin twous
White Pointer Shark Latin: Pointeus eatushim burpus
Contrary to popular...
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by SMITHSWOODSIDE - Top 500, Nov 10 '00
Pros: big, big spaces Cons: none
Review Topic: Overview
Last time we went for a drive in this hallowed place, it was only Sydney to Adelaide, a one day event of a thousand miles. Well I reckon its time for a drive again, this time from South to North, so as the...
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by SMITHSWOODSIDE - Top 500, Dec 14 '00
Pros: space Cons: none
Time for another drive -this time the West Coast; Adelaide to Darwin via Perth
And away we go, as Jackie Gleeson used to say. Since we decided to make this trip some two weeks ago, we have all been practicing bladder control, I hope,...
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by SMITHSWOODSIDE - Top 500, Dec 14 '00
Pros: space Cons: nil
Time for another drive -this time the West Coast; Adelaide to Darwin via Perth
PART TWO - Continued
A quick "squirt" in the morning sees us at Coolgardie, with Kalgoorlie-Boulder nearby. This is the gold...
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by SMITHSWOODSIDE - Top 500, Apr 05 '01
Pros: A nature lovers delight Cons: Strong heart required!
One of Australia's most popular television shows is "The Barefoot Bushman".
Barefooted, Rob Bredl has been catching animals for 27 years. I know Rob reasonably well, and he is one mad galah. With his father, he started Australia's first...
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by SMITHSWOODSIDE - Top 500, Oct 14 '00
Pros: friendly Cons: nil
Review Topic: Overview
Since becoming active in Epinions twelve weeks ago, I have been asked
countless times, well three or four, just what it is like living on the “bottom of the World”, compared to at the top.
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by SMITHSWOODSIDE - Top 500, Oct 22 '00
Pros: open spaces Cons: nil
Review Topic: Sights & Attractions
What's say we take a drive from Sydney to Adelaide, nearly a third of the way across the country.
The highways between Capitals in Australia are particularly good...
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by SMITHSWOODSIDE - Top 500, Oct 11 '00
Pros: new outlook Cons: none
Review Topic: Overview
What Queen, I hear you ask. Well it usually comes as a surprise to most people of the planet to learn that Australia has a Queen - not the Queen of England, but the Queen of Australia.
This has...
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