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Login/Join to ParticipateUnNatural Scientist - Currently working on a Breville-legged monkey
757 posts
Location: Bath Uni or Shrewsbury, UK
I'm a month into traveling around the world and I leave for Sydney on monday. So the the questions are:
What's worth seeing/doing?
Does anyone want to get together and maybe teach me a bit?
How much does the beer cost?
Is there anyway I can learn a bit more djembe (african drumming)
Thanks all you lovely people
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big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom
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cole. x
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
95 posts
Location: Cairns, Queensland
I'm in OZ but far away from Sydney.
Sorry to be of no help there partner.
When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.
UnNatural Scientist - Currently working on a Breville-legged monkey
757 posts
Location: Bath Uni or Shrewsbury, UK
I start in Sydney but I've got 3 months so I'll probably stick to the east coast. Anyone else?
-- Cole, fair enough. I've been away from the internet for a while and hadn't seen that new forum
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Returning to a unique state of Equilibrium
3,289 posts
Location: Adelaide, South Australia
Rah!!! Theres more to Australia than the East Coast!!!
Josh
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ZORT!
3,045 posts
Location: Brisbane, Australia
what? you mean people actually live out west?
"Here kitty kitty...." - Schroedinger.
Gromit's Humble Squire
4,496 posts
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Written by: Domino
How much does the beer cost?
Cheaper than the water. It's no match for a pint of English pub bitter though
And it's harder to find good tikka! 
Visiting Brissie too by any chance?
Mumma Hen
6,391 posts
Location: Brisbane, Australia
2.20 a pot of VB. yum beer.
of course it will be served warm which lends proof to all the stories you have heard.
by the way where is australia?
TAJ "boat mummy." VALURA "yes sweetie you went on a boat, was daddy there with you?" TAJ "no, but monkey on boat" VALURA "well then sweetie, Daddy WAS there with you"
Yes, where is this Australia you speak of?
Disco Inferno
160 posts
Location: Remote Western Australia Karratha
umm im not sure about the whole drumming thing but i learnt A bit of african slash brazilian drumming in my attempts at capoeira im not sure whether they offer their samba and music styles in random workshops or not but it might be worth looking at, thats if thats the kind of thing your after
"Only fools are positive! are you sure? Im POSITIVE"
HoP's Barman. Trapped aged 6 months
4,437 posts
Location: Staines, United Kingdom
There arent any firespinners in Oz everyone knows that!
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind
Give a man a fish and he'll eat 4 a day hit a man with a brick and you can have all his fish and his wife
"Will's to pretty for prison" - Simian
coming to a country near you
4,696 posts
Location: home of the tiney toothy bear, Australia
No! all the fire spinners from Oz landed in Tassie with the last shipment of red shoes!
smallest population of all states? still TWO breweries!
"but have you considered there is more to life than your eyelids?"
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UnNatural Scientist - Currently working on a Breville-legged monkey
757 posts
Location: Bath Uni or Shrewsbury, UK
Written by: Ry'
Visiting Brissie too by any chance?
Certainly will but it'll be at the end of the 3 months as I fly out of there. I think the plan is to start Sydney, up to Cairns then back down to Brisbane. Not sure on the stops in the middle. any suggestions?
2.20 a pot? Is that 2.20 dollars or pounds? Is a pot a can or a piture?
Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand and I can beat the world into submission.
Mumma Hen
6,391 posts
Location: Brisbane, Australia
2 dollars 20
a can (approx.)
cairns is past brisbane.
why dont you stop at Brisbane on the way up to cairns?
TAJ "boat mummy." VALURA "yes sweetie you went on a boat, was daddy there with you?" TAJ "no, but monkey on boat" VALURA "well then sweetie, Daddy WAS there with you"
Gromit's Humble Squire
4,496 posts
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Yes, beer terminology is silly here.. pots, ponies and schooners. I find pints and half pints so much more practical! Depending what beer you get, I think buying cartons you can get 1.50 a stubby (another silly term). Think can.
Yes, what Val says- why don't you stop at Brissie on the way up to Cairns?
UnNatural Scientist - Currently working on a Breville-legged monkey
757 posts
Location: Bath Uni or Shrewsbury, UK
I might, it's just that I fly out of Brisbane. Seemed to make sence to skip it on the way up as I'll have to come back down to it anyway.
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Mumma Hen
6,391 posts
Location: Brisbane, Australia
fair enough!!
TAJ "boat mummy." VALURA "yes sweetie you went on a boat, was daddy there with you?" TAJ "no, but monkey on boat" VALURA "well then sweetie, Daddy WAS there with you"
old hand
1,107 posts
Location: In a test pit, Mackay, Australia
MACKAY!
Loads of people would avoid it and head straight up for Proserpine and that skunk-hole Airlie Beach with those hideous little Whitsunday Islands. Who needs that when you can play on a floodplain and feed the mosquitos in the mangrove?
AND go furniture shopping on a Sunday (10.00 till 4.00). Who says regional Queensland isn't up there with the rest of the world?
Mackay Mackay Mackay!
There is a slight possibility that I am not actually right all of the time.
comfortably numb
2,676 posts
Location: The countryside, Australia
Heh...whitsunday islands was the best holiday I've ever been to. I want to live at Airlie Beach!
There's plently of spinners in Melbourne, weekly meets in parks where people spin. I'm a few hours from Melb but I'll be coming for a spin within the next few weeks hopefully!
.All things are beautiful if we take the time to look.
coming to a country near you
4,696 posts
Location: home of the tiney toothy bear, Australia
Come to TASSIE! the best state besides confusion!
"but have you considered there is more to life than your eyelids?"
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addict
475 posts
Location: Van Diemans Land, Australia
Written by: Mr Majestik
Come to TASSIE! the best state besides confusion!
I Agree! Happiness is a state of mind. Not Lithuania
Come to Tassie. Great city. Friendly people. Local spinning community
What more could you want? except for silk on your back. gold on your fingers. mansion. Bentley. Chinese man-servant named Lim. Pony........
Fair luna bright, fair luna moon
it shines at night but fades too soon
fair luna moon, fair luna bright
forever we dance
we dance under starlight
coming to a country near you
4,696 posts
Location: home of the tiney toothy bear, Australia
mmmmmmm, ponyyyyyyyyy
"but have you considered there is more to life than your eyelids?"
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UnNatural Scientist - Currently working on a Breville-legged monkey
757 posts
Location: Bath Uni or Shrewsbury, UK
Bah. Not really the sunny welcome I was expecting. I get here and it pisses it down, later I find my card has been cancelled so I have $20 to my name till I can get a wire transfer after Easter.
Not awesome.
Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand and I can beat the world into submission.
100 characters max...
2,996 posts
Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia
Domino, drop me a PM if you fancy catching up this weekend in Sydney. I have some assignments to do, but I am sure I could find some time to say hi to a lonely pommy bastard
It was a day for screaming at inanimate objects.
What this calls for is a special mix of psychology and extreme violence...
coming to a country near you
4,696 posts
Location: home of the tiney toothy bear, Australia
Domino, as an australian i prefer to think of times like that not a a problem, but as an adventure!
"but have you considered there is more to life than your eyelids?"
jointly owned by Fire_Spinning_Angel and Blu_Valley
UnNatural Scientist - Currently working on a Breville-legged monkey
757 posts
Location: Bath Uni or Shrewsbury, UK
I'm sure it's an "Experience" (notice the capital letter) and "Character Building" but more than anything it's a pain in the arse...
Still, I found a place not closed over Easter and cashed a traveler's cheque so I'm not broke any more. Things are on the up.
Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand and I can beat the world into submission.
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