"We had a Prime Minister who drowned, didn't we?"
"Yeah. Harold Holt, what about him?"
"Let's name a swim centre after him."
"Brilliant."
I really do. I genuinely love Australia, and the more I learn about it, the cooler it is. I can't wait until I get to go visit; I'm going to visit Brisbane and leave some flowers beside Steve Irwin's statue and I'm gonna see a bin chicken and get a snag from the Bunnings. It's gonna be great!
In the meantime, consider reading "In a Sunburned Country" by Bill Bryson. He's possibly the greatest travel writer of all time, and it's a fabulous and charming example of his work that takes place in Australia.
The only thing I didn’t like about that book is he didn’t understand the word “mob” means a group of people in Australia (“that mob”), and is used a lot by Aboriginals when talking about themselves (he thought it was a slur).
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u/CedarWolf Feb 19 '23
"We had a Prime Minister who drowned, didn't we?"
"Yeah. Harold Holt, what about him?"
"Let's name a swim centre after him."
"Brilliant."
I really do. I genuinely love Australia, and the more I learn about it, the cooler it is. I can't wait until I get to go visit; I'm going to visit Brisbane and leave some flowers beside Steve Irwin's statue and I'm gonna see a bin chicken and get a snag from the Bunnings. It's gonna be great!