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§2 - Sunday. March 10, 1985 - North Shore News

Travel

Love in the outback

called over by a friend at our local club the

B= ON THE subject of Australia, [| was

other day. Her daughter had recently return-
ed from Australia and in the course of her visit had
met an Australian man and become quite attached

to him.

Mom couldn't resist clipp-
ing and pinning up the col-
umn I wrote, containing my
Australian friend’s warning
about marrying Australian
men: (... “you'll run a poor
fourth to their mates, — men
friends, — stubbies, — beer,
— and their football.**)

Her daughter, in turn, read
the column over the phone to
her Aussie boyfriend.

**Tell her we also eat our
young,’’ was his reply,
although I got the idea that
he might have grudgingly
agreed with the remark!

Also on Australia:

DEAR MRS. McCREADIE:
I enjoyed your two recent
columns on travel in
Australia. Our experiences
there in November ’84 were
often very similar.

Morey matters: The ‘‘no
tipping’ custom we found a
pleasant surprise. The 4 litre
wine casks for $6 or less
($16-317 in Canada) were
too.

We had no trouble chang-
ing Aust. $ Travellers’ che-
ques (on a previous visit
hanks didn’t object to
cashing Canadian dollar
cheques).

Visa and Mastercard have
been picked up again recently
by some local banks and their
acceptance is spreading.
Places from small retailers to
gas stations were accepting
them.

In 1984 the Australian
dollar notes were replaced by
a bronze coin slightly larger
than a Canadian quarter. It
seems to have been accepted
quite readily.

Shopping: Trading cn two
evenings and Saturday after-
noons is now general, in new
South Wales at least. We
stocked up again on two
ethnic items — Vegemite and
‘ugg’? boots. Vegemite you
can’t get in Canada and ‘‘ug-
gies’’ (ankle-length sheepskin
boots with the fleece inside)
are sold widely in Australia
but you must shop around
for the best price. We paid
$25 Aust. a pair.

Social customs: Language:
if you fly QANTAS to
Australia out of Vancouver,
you're likely to get off in
Cairns. Look for a copy of
G.A. Wilkie's ‘Dictionary of
Australian Colloquialisms’’
~- $6.95 in ithe airport
bookshop.

Barbara, your friend Kaye
cant live in Melbourne if her
male is interested in football
(rugby). Only Sydney and
Brisbane play rugby.
Melbourne is fanatical about
“Aussie Rules’? (one point
for kicking a ‘‘behind’’), It's
known as aerial ping-pong to
Sydney-ites who know
nothing about it.

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Travel: Tell everyone who
flies to campaign for left-
luggage lockers at airports.
Both Cairns and Brisbane
lack them — a real pain.

Our QANTAS tickets
allowed us to land in Sydney,
Brisbane and Cairns then
straight to Vancouver at no
extra cost. Sure, it saved
money but having to go
through the international
flight procedures on what
were purely internal legs of
our trip was a bother. Live
and learn.

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ANSWER: Thanks for a
good letter! Just a couple of
things: Vegemite is available
in Canada in Woodward's
stures food floors. It is
distributed by Kraft foods
and costs $3.49 for « 328
gram tin. [ tried it in
Australia and decided right
then that [ would resist any
efforts made on my behalf by
Aussies determined to con-
vert me to smearing that
gunk on my morning toast.
My cat. drags in better-
looking breakfast food.

I didn’t buy uggies since
Ud have had to buy five pairs
— my family would have lov-
ed them but my = suitcase
wouldn't have.

A lot of airports don't
have left-luggage lockers.
Although it probably isn’t
the reason in Australia, ask
any Brit what the ILR.A. left
in the luggage lockers! I°l bet
you won't find any in the
Middle East, either.

QANTAS tells me that
their flights between
Brisbane, Cairns and Sydney
are only available to interna-
tional travellers and
therefore, each passenger
must be cleared to leave the
country,

As for the plastic money,
I'm glad to hear that it’s ac-
cepted again if only for the
sake of travellers. Before -]
went to Australia nobody
thought to warn me there was
no Visa in Australia. I’ve
been used to relying on my
card ali over the world and 1
was caught short of cash
down under. Like you said,
‘*Live and Learn’’.

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Kaye, does live just outside
of Metbourne but the confu-
sion about the football was
mine and not hers. Sorry, but
what | know about football
— Australian or other —

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of the Old Testament.

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