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When I first started to think about moving to Australia I thought Melbourne would be the place for me. Really the only thing that swayed me to Sydney was employment opportunities and the friends I already had in the city. Having over a year already under my belt in the country my first trip to Melbourne was going to be a very ‘what if’ ‘did I make the right choice’ trip!

Magic Melbourne

Stucros
2007-03-08 17:22:41

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I had done in a whole year in Sydney.

Another night out (revolver for people who know Melbourne as it has quite a name!) and a day spent St Kilda where I tried to dust off my old but not yet completely forgotten salsa
not really a good venue for tennis but eay to get in!
skills!

Australian Open

I'd timed my trip so that I could go to the Australian open. I've been fortunate through my life that I've regularly gone to Wimbledon either getting my tickets through the tennis club or work and I was extremely excited to attend another Grand Slam. Commentators on Wimbledon often seem to coerce the player into telling viewers how special the tournament is - comments that I've been largely sceptical about. Comparison therefore was on my mind is Wimbledon really the best in the world?........ as for the pros and cons for the tournaments they are remarkably good parallel of the two countries.

* Pro OZ: Tickets are easy to come by: we bought our ground passes the day before queuing for aprox 1 min and if I had been more organised we could have bought tickets to Rod Laver arena a few weeks before:
* Con Wimbledon: You need to be either very rich or very lucky or well connected or stand queue for 6+hours

* Pro Wimbledon: It is undoubtedly steeped in history and tradition. You drink Pimms eat strawberries. It is the of quintessential example English etiquette, you gasp at good shots and applaud good
Paul at TAB
Paul at TAB
Only in Australia would you find a betting shop at the tennis
play. The crowd knows when hush and when to laugh.
* Con OZ: You drink VB (beer) and eat burgers. You shout 'Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie Oi Oi Oi' (a chant I dislike so much it would be worthy of its own blog) wear football and ruby shirts you cheer at double faults and talk while play is in progress.

* Pro OZ: Even with our ground entry pass we ...