Off to Australia today...

REAL LIFE HOOD · 12-09-2009 12:21AM

Australia is so meh!!!!!

Dublin is like closer to Moscow than Melbourne is to Sydney.

Now think about that!!!

Doubs · 12-09-2009 12:30AM

don't miss out on melbourne, it's amazing.

the road trip from sydney to brisbane is one of the est though - enjoy it you'll have a ball. amazing country.

legendal · 12-09-2009 01:51AM

REAL LIFE HOOD wrote: »

Australia is so meh!!!!!

Dublin is like closer to Moscow than Melbourne is to Sydney.

Now think about that!!!

Geographically closer? You're wrong (x4) if that's the case!

shane86 · 12-09-2009 04:58AM

zootroid wrote: »

Get out of Sydney as soon as you can, its a hole.

Melbourne is where its at

lol

Sydney is the greatest city on earth. Best nightlife, most of the birds are crackers, always something to do. Im sure Melbourne is grand but its freezing for at least half the year. Only thing about Syd that makes it a hole is the amount of junkies allowed to act the bollix in the cross, cops here are lazy as fcuk. In general though Syd cant be beat.

Daroxtar wrote: »

Also, dont get stuck in an apartment with a gang of irish, drinking in an irish bar and essentially being a steroetypical Irish abroad. Sure its nice to have a bit of familiarity when you're away but if you want to hang around with a gang of irish and do all the things that irish people do then why bother going away at all?

Dont spend your entire time in just one place either, its so daft going to a country that genuinely has loads to see and do and deciding to stay put in the one place for 11 months then a month travelling up the coast is a waste of loads of opportunities. Stay in hostels whenever you get a chance,they're full of sexy europeans looking for sexy times.

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Why? Lets be honest, would you rather hang with mad Irish, English and South Americans, or Germans who drink the same box of goon for a week and sip their complimentary free schooner for 2 hours on a hostel night out and go home?

And why not spend your whole visa time in one spot if you like it? My biggest regret was leaving Sydney for a month- alot of the rest of Oz is pretty damn boring. Wish I hadnt bothered tbh.

Main tips:

Dont bother doing the entire coast, waste of money. Cairns is beyond boring, full of cheesey nightclubs. So overrated, so boring. Scenically beautiful in parts of the surrounding countryside but fcuk sake there is nothing to do. Reminded me a bit of Galway in the sun- nice scenery but a pretty crap town and life in general.

I passed through Surfers Paradise mind, which is near Birzzy, and Id deffo go back for a proper look, looked like Miami, Id reckon its great. Apart from that though I wouldnt bother going much further north for any extended period of time.

Dont rely on an Aussie to do anything for you, they are horribly disorganised.

You shold probably have yourself a good pizza and a quarter pounder before you go as a send off - Aussie pizza is generally terrible, and they cant do burgers like your local chipper, they are sh1te.

In fact burgers and pizza are the only things I miss from home.

DamoDLK · 12-09-2009 05:47AM

REAL LIFE HOOD wrote: »

Australia is so meh!!!!!

Dublin is like closer to Moscow than Melbourne is to Sydney.

Now think about that!!!

Jaysus, if ever a sat nav was needed for a person..

The Aussie · 12-09-2009 07:29AM

REAL LIFE HOOD wrote: »

be prepared for some outwardly xenephobia and when you return remember what it feels like and show respect for our immigrant population.

If only that was a true statement, so there is no "xenephobic" sentiments in Ireland, I love that one. What about the travellers, nigerians, polish, norries (from the north side of cork city) in fact anyone who dares come here and get a job in front of an Irish national.

I would say be prepared to have sh!te shoveled upon you for being so white you glow in the dark, when you do get in the sun you go red, for going on about half burnt chips called Taytos, for going halfway around the world and drinking with people from your same parrish, the thing to remember is to sling the cr@p straight back with a bit of interest on it, Aussies respect that more than winging, oh yeh talking about winging, be prepared to some red neck calling you a "pommy".

When in Brisbane stay away from local bars unless you like A&E wards, just go to the valley and drink there, loads of cool clubs/pubs, if you are into the GAA there is a local competition, its a sunday league so everyone turns up still half cut, good laugh though, anyway, enjoy mate.

Anthony.

DamoDLK · 12-09-2009 09:49AM

The Aussie wrote: »

I would say be prepared to have sh!te shoveled upon you for being so white you glow in the dark, when you do get in the sun you go red, for going on about half burnt chips called Taytos....

Oi!!! Don't knock the tayto!!!!

martinjr · 12-09-2009 10:04AM

Is there an 'r' missing from 'towel'? ......under the present job circumstances here.

BraziliaNZ · 12-09-2009 10:17AM

I think Melbourne was my favourite thing about Australia, and the countryside of Victoria. The amount of fun i had in Melb was unreal, but the winter was long and dark and cold. Victorian countryside doesn't have the glamour of the east coast but it's really something else in nice weather. Check out the Grampians if you get a chance and of course the Great Ocean Road.

Daroxtar · 12-09-2009 11:09AM

Melbourne or Sydney? Well Melbourne is the single most over rated place i have ever been to in my entire life and everyone there thinks its brilliant. Sydney just gets on with it and laughs at Melbournes inferiority complex. And Winter in melbourne is poxy.

Whiskey Devil · 12-09-2009 11:35AM

The Aussie wrote: »

If only that was a true statement, so there is no "xenephobic" sentiments in Ireland, I love that one. What about the travellers, nigerians, polish, norries (from the north side of cork city) in fact anyone who dares come here and get a job in front of an Irish national.

I would say be prepared to have sh!te shoveled upon you for being so white you glow in the dark, when you do get in the sun you go red, for going on about half burnt chips called Taytos, for going halfway around the world and drinking with people from your same parrish, the thing to remember is to sling the cr@p straight back with a bit of interest on it, Aussies respect that more than winging, oh yeh talking about winging, be prepared to some red neck calling you a "pommy".

When in Brisbane stay away from local bars unless you like A&E wards, just go to the valley and drink there, loads of cool clubs/pubs, if you are into the GAA there is a local competition, its a sunday league so everyone turns up still half cut, good laugh though, anyway, enjoy mate.

Anthony.

Ehh (Padraig Harrington), I think that was the point he was making.

Lirange · 12-09-2009 12:39PM

It's not Australia. It's Straya. Get it right knobs.

Svalbard · 12-09-2009 01:10PM

Australia really isn't all that.

Lirange · 12-09-2009 11:59PM

All what? Speak English.

Off to Australia today...

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