The English Topic

One quick question: November 5th is Guys Fawkes’ Day in Great Britain, isn’t it?

Hey dear, glad to read you English has well improved! 😉
How’s it going in foggy london? I am pretty sure you now talk like a Londoner with that sexy accent, well Minou and I might go and visit you soon to chek on you, and I have some crazy shopping to do as well… 😉

We’ll let you know, until then, take care, and enjoy yourself xxx

yes the 5th November is Guys Fawkes and they burn everything here lol is a big party with huge fireworks (huge for england) because quite small compare to sydney yes let me know when you want to come

yan

Buell wrote:

This is an English Topic!!!!!! Let’s say.. YOU MADE A TERRIBLE MISTAKE!!!
Special Punishment for you Go’Oz!! ->

😆 sorry I didn’t see it’s an english topic… 😳
promis j’le referais plus 😉
済みません 🙄
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RIGHT!! Effisk and Go Oz have you both finnished with your french and japanese (????) stuff??

Effisk, isn’t england horribly expensive, especially London. Worst mistake anyone could make would be to do thier christmas shoppping over there! Lucky for me I HATE London!

Hey. I’m new here =)
I hate living in Paris too, there is too much pollution, too much noises, too much cars…I’m so happy about leabing this awful city (even there is THE eiffel tower that everyone in the world « would looooove to see ») for Australia… 😀 I’ve got on question, in Sydney, or Perth, or another big city in Australia, is it the same as Paris? Thx!

Thanks Kate. 🙂

I’m from Paris and I’ve always lived in…
It’s my only chance for the moment to leave France and to travel in Australia so I’m going to take it. I was only afraid Sydney or another big city was a city like Paris, but you told me it wasn’t as bad as Paris =)
So I’m really happy about that 😛

oups, double 😀

Er, Sydney is not that tiny little town. It’s overcrowded, very noisy, pretty dirty and far too big. Melbourne is better for sure but not a paradise neither. You’ll probably love Perth and Brisbane, hate Adelaide and Alice, and you won’t give a f*ck for Darwin (but it’s worth to go there).

For sure if you go to Darwin to leave in a city, it’s not the place to be. Darwin CBD is certainly the worst boring place to leave and you’ll hardly see locals there! Only tourists stay in Mitchell street and do shopping on the mall.
But there are some nice places: Nightcliff, Parap, Karama, Casuarina,…but no backpackers there! Territorians are not silly: they park tourists in this awfull CBD and do barbies in the suburbs!
By the way there is not much to do in Darwin :glande

Both! 😀
I think it was a meaningful lapsus! 😉

That’s exactly what I did three years ago! 😛

Look at you all so lucky, I bet you’ve all been going to Australia more often that I have since my 14 or so years here in France. 🙁 No fair! You get good deals with the whv stuff and seeing as im an aussie, I guess I dont have a right to all those advantages and have to pay my ticket the old fashioned way …. SAVING UP!! 👿

Effisk, I said ‘good deals’ I didn’t say free! I know very well that going to Oz DEFINATELY isn’t free and costs. (unfortunatley!!) If were free, australia would be full of french people wouldn’t it! 🙂

Hi Effisk, I try not to think of this whole sorry story any more…. but it’s on my carnet de voyage here if you’d like to see it:
http://kate.kikooboo.com/fr_FR/page/mauvais_fin_des_vacances_a_paris_mais_c_est_la_vie

Back from 10 days in the far north of NZ now…it was great 🙂
Kate

of course! You only have to sign with the Australian cards. No PIN needed. Now I understand why they particularly target tourists in the metro.

We’ve had that system forever. Or at least since the early 90′. It’s more secure than the signature system, I wonder why it’s not widely used.
I have seen that in the UK some also have an ID photo on the back of the card.

Kate! Did you pop in and say hello to my mum and dad on the Auckland North Shore while you were there?? 😆

Lucky you’re in NZ and not in the scorching weather they have in Oz at the moment. My sister just wrote me an e mail bosting about the heat, the beaches, coasting from outside terrace bars to outside terrace bars wearing skirts and halter tops … pff, as if im jelous! ….. 👿 Please, its much nicer here with the cold and the chrissy decorations to look at and the scarves and wet feet, isnt it??

Wow Kate! My mum and dad live about 10 mins by car to takapuna beach in Birkenhead!! NZ is such a small world anyway isnt it. I was always meeting people who at least knew one person I already knew while I was in NZ (is this clear???)

Even when I was here the first year learning french in Alliance Francais we met a Kiwi guy from Northcote who was teaching rugby over here.

You know, the blacks were over here not long ago and they were just next door to where I live, Disneyland! If i’d have known, I would have gone that day and caught up with my pal Joe Rokocoko (not really my pal but have already met and taken photos with him at Sydney airport and took the same flight to Auckland with the whole Auckland Blues team!)

Did you enjoy Takapuna; Last time I went I didnt recognise it … I hadnt been there in 14 years and its changed soooo much, none of the quaint restaurants were there or the nice boutiques, only crappy shops, and mainly housing and apartments, I only used to go to Takapuna for the shopping center and the beach. its changed so much now, nightclubs etc.

I still love NZ, im a bit torn between Oz and NZ actaully. Lived in OZ ten years, NZ for seven! Cant seem to make up my mind which is really home to me, and now ive been in France for 14 years!! confusing eh? AND im half Swiss by my father, so Switzerland could be on the list too couldnt it? 😆

Yeah……right

Well, ain’t much to say except that I’m pissed off as I just got my second fine in bloody two weeks.
Hundred bucks given away to Transperth, just before Xmas :stern:

But it’s my fault so…