just cos i can

[Tanky]

Floyd: when and where are you planning a visit?
Stront: Entire F1 circuit?! Nice one!
Spooky: I'm going on holiday. Not some giant hollywood style oddysee!
Val: Can u recommend any good punx pubs/ kick ass clubs (any music - not fussy) in Sydney?
I like spiders. I own a big scary one and am looking forward to encountering her rellys!

I've lived in portsmouth for all my 27 years. England's boring now, so i'm off. just cos i can!

I've decided to do at least one touristy thing in each country. Here's what i've come up with so far:
Oz. Re-enacting scenes from Chopper with me best bud, fake tashes and water pistols. My mate lives right near the club in question
NZ. The world's biggest bungy jump or
Blasting across the 'plains of rohan' on a horsey
US. Hiking through the Grand canyon or
blasting across the desert on a kick ass bike, sporting a union jack helmet
Any more ideas? All considered!
Peace out

[Floyd-the-k]

Tank grrl, I`ll probably go back to Melbourne next Christmas, although if my family are in Noosa I`ll go there. I`m thinking of going back for good next march/april or thereabouts.
  It`s the small spiders that kill you, but that`s only in the country. Just don`t put your hand under any old piles of wood in the summertime. If bitten by a redback, make sure it`s not female.
  Sydney is beautiful and I think there are heaps of clubs. Try camel-riding near Uluru, wine tasting in Adelaide. Go to Broken Hill and drive around pretending to be in Mad Max (or go to the Melbourne University underground carpark to pretend to be in the first movie)

[Something Fishy]

My wife did that before she met me (well just after she first met me).

Spent all the money she'd earned in the 7 years longer she'd lived.  Then came back met me, settled down and had kids.  Since then we've not had the money to do that.

So i've never done anything like it or been anywhere abroad since.   sob.

[Something Fishy]

Floyd..  when i was chatting to you the other day, i was about to ask if you were a victorian.  

I had this strong feeling you were.   lord knows why.

You "mystic meg" fishy.

[Dudley]

Floyd said:

If bitten by a redback, make sure it`s not female

I'm not going to Australia any time soon, so this is just nosiness.  How do you tell if it's female without being very personal with a microscope?

...Dudley

[Steamboy]

Fe-male Redbacks have a big red stripe down their back and are at least double the size of the male, boy do they make you sick(very few people actually die)also very painfull, trust me I know this from experience.  Usually only fatal if your a small child or alergic to insect stings(bee's, wasps etc)

cu Krestel

[Dunk!]

Wow I?d give my left nut to be heading off on an adventure like yours Tanky.

Faced with another few months of work before the debts from my last trip to Japan are paid off, I?m facing no kinda holiday at all this year. But if I was; Oz and Nz would be on my list to visit mainly ?cos of friends out there ? those who have survived the spiders, snakes and prison sentences that is.

You take the good and the bad from any country you visit like taking the good and the bad of living in the UK.

I was mugged twice when I lived in London once when I seriously thought my life was on the line. Doesn?t mean I don?t visit London all the time and love it. Go looking for the good but be aware of the bad and 99% of the time you?ll have a great trip.

Please don?t keep us informed of your progress Tanky. The envy from my end will permanently stain my skin green and I don?t have the physic to be the hulk.

[Tu-plang]

Wow, didn't realise that the bag-check rule was only in Oz...  It's never been a problem at all for me,  I just let the chunky guy at the door/spotty gimp at the counter check my bag.

The tags don't seem to work, I've seen people casually walk through the sensor and set it off before breaking out into a run through the crowded streets of melbourne.

I consider Australia a bloody safe place to be, for the record i've never been the victim of any crime (mugging/theft/break-in/violence).

[rc]

I would rather tell the chunky guy or spotty gimp that what is in my bag is utterly none of his business. Has he seen me put anything in it without paying?

No Sale!

It's obviously a pretty established policy now so it may be too late, but if enough people make a stand and refuse to be "checked" perhaps an important principle of personal freedom and privacy can be regained there.

[Floyd-the-k]

How do you tell if it's female without being very personal with a microscope?

I was joking there but see other post. Of course, you have to remember to catch the bastard before it scuttles off

[Devons Daddy]

lots of things on this thread

STRONT
if you are doing the F1 circuit. mail me. i will meet you in KL and buy you a beer if i am able to get the weekend off this year.
thats serious.

Travel.
done lots of it. 3.5 times around the world in fact,before settling in singapore.and had the chance to see and try many wonderful weird and sometimes not legal in the UK things,
but something fishy.though you anit travelled much you should know.
 
HONESTLY fistral beach newquay is about number 4 on the list of worlds finest beaches.

Dartmoor is outstanding and the wild horses there are very specail.

London has more history and tourist enjoyment educational areas then the entire USA put together,.

Africa would make you cry so will india.

the taj mahal is only wonderful if you understand what it signifies, the cisteen chapel is far more breath taking.

Rome is one of the worlds finest places to enjoy.
egypt the valley of the kings is specail, and one of life experiences i would encourage to see.

you dont have to go far to see a majority of the greatest things on earth.but you have to see many to appreacaite what you take for granted every day.

[Devons Daddy]

tank girl
my list of things i did. when travelling
CAUSE I COULD.

watch the sun rise in the valley of the kings.and ride camel around the pyramids.
drink rum and lay on the beach in the carribean
scuba dive on the barrier reef.
go to the top of empire state biulding.eat a hot dog and drink a coke as you sit on the corner of 42nd street.
go to the top of eiffel tower
see the mona lisa
see the crown jewels
through a coin in the moses fountain in rome.
 watch the  brides kiss the groom on the spanish steps in rome.
take a gondola ride in venice.
have high tea at the ritz
drink a singapore sling at the raffles hotel long bar. singapore.
walk over sidney harbour bridge.
go whale watching in hawaii
fly in a helicopter over a volcano
play football on the beach in rio
go to the top of the mountain and take a picture of the statue( the jesus one) with you with your hands out in the same style again in rio.

when i travelled i just did the cliched things for the sake of it. otherwise you will always wish you had. i know a few who went to many of the places i have. and regret not doing the things they thought poeple may laugh at them for doing.

in south east asia. eat everything once!
and try a soapy massage.
travel is the worlds greastest way of living life to the full.

[Krustabi]

good luck tanky...

[Tanky]

Cheers buds!
Wow! Loads of quality suggestions from Devon's daddy! I think you're right, touristy things are touristy for a reason - cos u have to do them!! I have a friend who moved to Sydney a few months back and he's never walked across the top of the bridge, so that may well be on the cards.
I just bought my ticket this morning, and am bouncing off the walls! I have a two day stopover in Singapore, which is a huge added bonus and a place I know absolutely nothing about! I'm booked into a hotel right in the middle of the red light district! A Good thing or a bit dodgy? aaw, it'll be fun!

[Devons Daddy]

tank girl
honest offer.
i am more then happy to be a tour gide for the day.
your staying in GEYLANG????? really. hotel 81 it must be. but should you wish to have proper warts and all or just look see tour email me.
not a problem in any way. i do it several times a year for friends of friends and relatives of buddies.

that is a genuine and real offer.
DD