Australia is far. Considering where I'm from, it's literally one of the furthest places you can travel. The first thing people ask me about when I tell them I live in Australia is the flight, and there's no sugar coating this people... it sucks. I've flown an array of routes, via LA via Tahiti via South Korea etc. It's insanely long and airlines rip you off in ways you can't imagine. This is where you need to consider what you'll find there......
I love living in Australia. It's a laid back lifestyle, four weeks of vacation on top of public holidays is standard... the people are cool for the most part (let's face it there are going be a few scaries anywhere you go)... and if you can afford to live on the coast (which naturally I can't), I don't see why you'd ever leave your neighborhood - except to go to New York City, of course. Since I was raised in a family of seven my mother...
I read an unfortunate article yesterday where another celebrity (Kristen Bell) visited Australia and said something like 'Sydney airport was disappointing, I thought there would be kangaroos.' The first kangaroo I saw when I moved to Australia in 2002 was roadkill we drove past on they way to Lyndhurst. So my point is Yankee people, if you happen to cross an Aussie (which are few and are between considering there are only about 22 million of...
I'm not a huge Pink fan, not since one of my best mates Tony and I used to drive around back in '99 listening to a There You Go cassette-single in my '87 Volkswagon Rabbit drop top over and over singing as loud as our lungs would let us after a few Garcia Vegas.Last night was Pink night on Australian Idol (someone please get Ricky Lee a stylist)... and this lyric has been in my head ever since. Let me tell you 'bout hard work. I promised no...
Since I'm leaving so soon, I've been catching up with friends over the past few days. My catch up yesterday involved vodka, guava, and guaranas ; a fully clothed river dip; and the reassurance that only your mates can offer. The kind where you raise your glasses to one another and say things like, 'Of course it's practical to spend every cent you have on a four month stint at trying to break into one the roughest industries out there, it's you.'...