Australian Red Wine (Tesco's)

Advantages: Cheap and cheerful
Disadvantages: Not really what you would serve to impress at a posh dinner party

...I never used to be a red wine drinker, I would have said in the past if someone had offered me a glass "no thanks". But within the past few years I have changed my mind a lot and now do enjoy red wine. THE PRODUCT: Australian Red Wine (south eastern Australia) Selected by Tesco 75 cl 13.0% vol medium and fruity cost: £2.08 Allergy advice: Contains Sulphites Availability: every Tesco supermarket I have been in MY EXPERIENCE: I first bought a bottle of this wine when we were having a barbeque in the summer, I wasn't sure what it was or what it would be like as with most people when buying for a party you tend to just buy a few bottles of a lot of things. I decided however after a few strange glances from my partner that maybe I should try this wine before forcing it on our guests. The first thing I notice was it didn...

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Walkabout Inn - The Australian Bar

Advantages: Cheapish, comfortable.
Disadvantages: Costs £2 after certain time

...Situated at the very end of Broad Street The Australian Bar is standard setting start, or a great end to the traditional Broad Street pub crawl. Prices are amongst the best on Broad St, and a good atmosphere makes the Australian Bar one of the top pubs on Broad St. With down under staff, and aboriginal art scattered around this bar appears to have made a big effort to create an Aussie feel. Big tv screens usually show sports and a good range of music is also played, with decent live bands playing now and then. A function room upstairs is available after the pub closes, but I have never been up so it would be unfair to comment on it. A lot of seating is availiable and a few nice setees are also around, but these are quite popular. Good looking girls and cool beer make it definatley worth a visit. Careful of the gent's doors though...

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Australian Soft Eating Red Liquorice

Advantages: It tastes nice
Disadvantages: It is not widely available

...Whilst going about my one man quest to try every sweet, treat and chocolate bar in the world I stumbled upon a nice little treat from down under. Australian Soft Eating Red Liquorice (henceforth to be known as Oz Liquorice) is a glorious confection that sadly is only available in one place outside Australia, and that is Lakeland Limited. It can be ordered from www.lakelandlimited.com or purchased from one of the Lakeland Limited twenty-six shops scattered up and down the country, with £3.50 being the sum necessary to buy a bag. In my opinion it would not be advisable to order just Oz Liquorice on its own via mail order as the postage and packing cost would be as much as the bag of sweets at £3.50, but I do recommend you add it to your next larger order. Oz Liquorice arrives in a brown paper style bag about the size of a hard back book...

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The Australian Seaworld!

Advantages: Lots to do
Disadvantages: Nothing unique

...contact them the telephone number is 0755882205. Opening hours is from 10am to 5pm every day except Christmas Day. On Anzac Day it opens from 1.30pm. Show times change every now and then and can be obtained as soon as you enter Seaworld. It cost $69 (adult), $45 (child) for a regular ticket. One Australian dollar is equal to 0.458 United Kingdom pounds. You can purchase different types of packages, which are available. **FACILITIES** An information desk is available as soon as you enter the park an information desk to answer any queries you may have. Interpretation services are on hand if needed. If a child is lost it is to be reported here immediately and they can help you find your child. If stroller or wheelchair hire is needed enquire here. Any claims for lost property must be reported here. First Aid is available just...

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Tesco Australian Red Wine

Advantages: Cheap
Disadvantages: Not something to serve at a party until everyone's drunk!

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Australian Cricket Team

Advantages: Still the top team in the world
Disadvantages: Some weaknesses

..."Bad luck you Aussies!!" I'm sure those words would have left Geoff Boycott's lips at some point over the last 5 days...but how they made England panic last night. Yes, England have gone 1-0 up after winning the second test at Lord's, but somewhere at the back of even the most optimistic of minds, they will be that nagging doubt that the Australians could easily come back and winning two of the next three tests and retain the Ashes. Damn them all! Their line-up is much changed to the team which lost during the 2005 Ashes series, and very different to the team which thrashed us, and that's an understatement, 5 - 0 during the 2006/07 tour. Ponting still captains the team, but many critics say his team was adopted from Steve Waugh, with the likes of Warne, McGrath, Hayden, Gilchrist, Langer, Martyn, Gillespie all left overs from the team...

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A LOUD Australian

Advantages: It washes your hair
Disadvantages: Very sweet aroma

...that up then. Apparently, it also contains Australian hops...HOPS? Maybe it's a beer shampoo, or are the Australian hops the result of a marsupial leaping? In fact, I had a little look at their website and here's what they say: "Our revolutionary weightless formula, with AUSTRALIAN HOPS, leaves hair with body and fullness from roots to tips. For fine / limp hair Leaves hair with volume and body. Also tames annoying fly-aways." http://www.aussiehair.com Hmm. "Weightless formula"? Now what the heck does that mean? "For fine / limp hair"? I can categorically state that there's nothing... I said NOTHING, limp about me, thank you very much. And why would anyone want to tame flies? But never mind the technical hooha, what we really want to know is whether it gets your hair clean and does it add volume. Well, since it...

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Australian Film

Advantages: it is remembered when you see
Disadvantages: there are only Australian Film Festivals where you can see such

...Ever concider seeing Australian films showed on the Australian Film Festivals? Here are few. Check it out and let me know what you are thinking. It is concider as art film, nt entering the commercial gate. Seeing it, it is not quite like that no matter of the modest budget."The sum of us" by Kevin Dowling and Geoff Burton This is a story about homosexual son living with the heterosexual father. Harry is a ferry driving, straight down the line widower. His son Jeff is athletic 20 and something lad, who happened to be a gay. Harry did accepted his son, but slightly too easy for the usual of a gay people hard acceptance, by their families. Together, son and a father are making an odd couple. Even if they are in very good relations, and are living as very good friends together, they are both lonely, searching for a suitable partner. That...

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Australian Gold Fever

Advantages: Lots of adventure in the compelling first half.
Disadvantages: An entertaining rather than compelling second half.

...up with more academic ones though. In fact the writing style was sufficiently different that I would not have realised it was the same author, although both are easy to understand. The publishers call this a Gothic romance. I didn't know what they meant by that before reading the book, but I now understand it to be a romance with at least one dark side to it. All the main characters are well-developed but I think the most entertaining are the ones with the deepest dark side. There are many scheming characters full of greed and/or a desire for revenge in this book. While I found the Australian adventures in the first half the most compelling, I was also intrigued by the mysterious deaths, but not the romance, in the second half of the tale. However, readers who like romance may like the second half best...

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Australian Porridge

Advantages: Well run and interesting tourist attraction
Disadvantages: A bit of a grim thing to think about

...As part of my 'Great Australian Trip' last year that I've already written about, I was staying in Fremantle, WA. Fremantle is extremely proud of its convict heritage and so it comes of less of a surprise to find out that one its main tourist attractions if the convict-built Fremantle Prison. A prison is, quite rightly, a very odd tourist attraction, but it certainly does draw your attention to the origins of Fremantle and the labours of the convicts first sent to the colony in the 1800's. History The Fremantle Prison was built by convicts in the 1850's to house themselves basically, and was used as a prison until its closure in1991. The prison was opened as a tourist attraction in 1992 and, since then has run hundreds, if not thousands, of guided tours of the facility and the informative guides have given visitors an idea of what...

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