re: aunt eileen’s comment
How are the people?
The people are nice. I know that’s terrible descriptive word, but it’s the truth. Aussies are very friendly outgoing people. I did notice last night walking around Brisbane that randoms are very friendly. Say in a big city, like Chicago or Sydney, when walking down a street, people look everywhere but in the passersby eyes. Well here, people look at who they’re passing, and once eye contact is made, they smile. I noticed everyone doing that. It’s nice. Not the typical big city mentality.
I hate to admit but I’ve met far more people from the UK than locals, being on the backpacker track and all. Most travelers are from Europe, and I can count the North Americans I’ve met on both hands. Other travelers I’ve met are nice and friendly too, but have one mission in life: to get completely and utterly wasted every night. Believe it or not, that’s not really my style.
How’s the food?
I hate to admit it, but I don’t really know. My budget doesn’t really allow for me to try a lot of the local cuisine. On the blue mountain tour our lunch consisted of pie-vegetable pie for me-which was amazing. The pie had a very thick flaky crust and inside had carrots, potatoes, and peppers. I think that was the only local food I’ve eaten. My diet has consisted of muesli and a banana for breakfast and some kind of pasta dish that I’ve cooked myself for dinner/lunch. I’ve had subway a few times and stopped at a kebab joint here and there and of course my Christmas Eve dinner of Thai…What seems to be big with the pub food is steak and chips. I haven’t eaten beef in years so I don’t know how it is, and most of you know that over here, like the UK, chips are fries, and crisps are chips. I did try lemon and pepper crisps, a flavor one wouldn’t find in the US, and they were good.
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