The five most unpleasant surprises while in Australia
Jan 29th, 2008 by Nick
I’ll start recapping with the negatives, as while they were few and generally more of annoyance than anything, they come to mind quickly:
- Australian Diet Coke tastes lousy. Fortunately, I do not mind Coke Zero.
- I never got to try a chiko roll; whenever I found one at a store, it looked like it had been sitting under the heat lamp for about three days;
- The fact that so many of the sights in Melbourne are sprawled out away from the city, and not particularly accessible by public transportation. Next time, I’m going to rent a car in Melbourne so I can go to the gold minds, the forest, the drive-through zoo, and the wineries.
- Having to pay A$35 to get from the Ayers Rock Resort to Uluru itself, and
- The flies. They were not in Sydney, but they were everywhere else in neverending swarms. They were just brutal, and had an affinity for trying to fly into my nostrils.
Well — will you make it to next year’s reunion? Perhaps (given that I have about 11 months) I can perfect a recipe for chiko rolls by then.
And here I thought she’d say she would stock up on Aussie Diet Coke.
Maybe they still use saccharine — great shades of Tab!
I never understood this Coke Zero vs Diet Coke thing anyway…
Most people going to Australia think only of the fun under the sun while there, however it can be all good. I’m sure that a post called “The five most pleasant surprises while in Australia” is not an impossible goal. Nice read!