56 - Sunday, December 6, 1987 ~ North Shore News

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EXCITING TRIPS DOWN UNDER

Australia gears u

THE TWO most - liveabie
cities in the whole world, for
my money, are Vancouver
and Sydney. If I had the
Aga Khan’s money I'd be in
London, but that’s another
story.

Sydney is where most trips to
Australia begin, which is fair
enough because that’s where
Australia started 200 vears ago. To
be precise, on Jan. 26, 1788, Capt.
Phillip sailed in with 11 ships and
1,000 souls, including 750 convicts,
stepped ashore at Sydney Cove,
raised the British flag and put a
prawn on the barbie.

It was a bizarre social experi-
ment: the creation of a prison
camp in the South Pacific for what
was believed to be an entire crimi-
nal class.

travel

by David Wishart

Since then, as every school child
knows, Australia has become a
promised land to which people
have flocked ever since, and
Sydney has grown into a world
class city.

These days most people arrive
by Qantas, but the burgeoning
cruising industry is allowing more
travellers the thrill of sailing be-
tween Sydney Heads to join the
freighters, submarines, squat fer-
ries, the sleek hydrofoils and
shoals of sailboats in that spec-
tacular harbor.

Another spectacular harbor, of
course, is Vancouver’s, and
visitors will be amazed at other
similarities between the two cities:
how Sydney folk [eve their
beaches, their restaurants (such
wonderful oysters and fragrant
wine!), and how they see
Melbourne as stuffy, rather like
Vancouverites often view Toronto.

Actually they’re quite wrong.
Melbourne has style, glittering
hotels such as the new Hyatt on
Collins, culture as well as cricket,
and characters galore including
Brenton Robb, who runs a floating
restaurant. When the English
cricket team was in town they
made his Melbourne Ligijter the
unofficial headquarters and Boll-
inger the official drink.

Unfortunately many tourists
miss Melbourne in favor of stag-

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Much better to explore Sydney
and Melbourne, taking advantage
of the events and exhibitions lined
up for the bicentennial and
meeting a few Australians while
you’re at it, then head up to the
beach resorts of Queensland for a
relaxing week or two.

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Next year, as it happens, Expo
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Queensland capital, from April 30
to October 30, which will be the
star turn of Australia’s 200th cele-
brations.

Expo 88 organizers, including
chairman Sir Llew Edwards, had

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