Australia wrap-up

Obviously, there won't be too much to write here, as we spent only 10 days here and it isn't vastly different from Europe. However,

- everybody is freakishly polite. Every "excuse me" because you wanna walk pass somebody is answered with "oh, so sorry mate, have a good day."

- and everybody talks to each other. While we would try to get out of a conversation as soon as a stranger approaches us on the bus, here people engage in the conversation and sustain it till someone gets off the bus for example.

- public transport could use some improvement, as one could expect in a vast country depended on the car like Australia.

- the accent is tough. "Haw arr ya, mate". Rumour has it, that it is also hard for actors to imitate. Every accent uses a distinct number of face muscles. British English for example uses around 70. However the Australian only uses 10! That is at least what we were told ;).

- in Melbourne, when there are working areas in public spaces, they wouldn't restrict the access with red and white pastic ribbons but with strings of cute triangle flags, like for a birthday party.

- public barbecues (with gas) are available in parks. Imagine that! In Europe someone would burn stuff other than food on it all the time or would've complained about the dangers of publicly accessible gas tanks.

- you notice quite quickly that you are not in southeast Asia anymore (pic 3) ;). But the perks are also obvious: drinking tap water, you hail the taxi and not the other way around, cars stopping at the zebra crossing for you etc.

- teenagers have adopted the look of the 90s, fashion is an eternal circle... Doc Martens, back elastic "tatoo" necklaces, bellyfree tops, etc.

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