Comments on: Where we are going… https://glendalarke.com/2008/03/where-we-are-going/ Sat, 13 Mar 2021 10:34:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Jo https://glendalarke.com/2008/03/where-we-are-going/#comment-22652 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:39:00 +0000 #comment-22652 We get the same thing in Canada with people expecting to visit places in one day which are 2 or 3 days journey from where they cross the border. The classic story is someone sending their son from the UK to Toronto and cabling a relative in Vancouver to meet the son. The relative cabled back, you meet him, you’re closer.

Hope you have a great trip, sounds wonderful.

]]> By: Satima Flavell https://glendalarke.com/2008/03/where-we-are-going/#comment-22651 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:03:00 +0000 #comment-22651 I met a German backpacker in the UK once who had been to Oz and was very disappointed. “I thought it was an island”, she said. “I’d hoped to do day trips from Sydney to Cairns and Alice Springs.”

Hmm. Well yes, the Land of Oz is an island all right, but…

]]> By: Jason https://glendalarke.com/2008/03/where-we-are-going/#comment-22650 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:22:00 +0000 #comment-22650 When an Australian says “just down the road”, the actual distance could be measured in hundreds of kilometres.

I remember a visiting American once saying that they’d drive out to Ayre’s Rock for the day, from Brisbane… about 3,500 km by road.

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