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It's always most difficult to talk about your home, but I'll take up the challenge and try and describe my birthplace, Australia, to you.

Australia May 2001

Nickjenkins
2003-11-20 15:37:40

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South Wales - arguably the jewel in the crown and Australia's largest city. Sydney is a beautiful city perched on the shores of its own harbour and somewhere I spent three happy years living and working. Tourist attractions include the Harbour bridge, the Sydney Opera House, Manly beach and all the debris from the Olympic games. Real attractions include any of the beaches other than Manly (Balmoral, Coogee, Cronulla etc), ferry rides on the harbour, Taronga Park Zoo and the outstanding lifestyle. Features of New South Wales include the Blue Mountains (so called for the blue haze the eucalypt forests produce over the mountains), the Hunter valley wine growing region and the mining town of Broken Hill.

Melbourne, Victoria - the next biggest city in Australia with a truly multicultural composition and an age old rivalry with Sydney. Where Sydney claims to have the big attractions Melbourne claims to have the culture and lifestyle. Tourist attractions include the Melbourne cup (horse race), the Grand Prix and trams. Real attractions include the Melbourne arts centre, the Grand Prix and the restaurant and café strip on Lygon street. Attractions of the state include the Great Ocean Road and Twelve Apostles, the Grampians and the rock climbing mecca of the Arapiles.

Brisbane, Queensland - not, in my humble opinion, the most awe-inspiring of Australian cities but set in a fantastic location on Australia's north-eastern coast. Attractions of Brisbane include the Conrad casino, cane toads and bad drivers. Attractions of Queensland include the Glass House mountains, the Great Barrier reef and nearby island playground of the Whitsundays, the tropical north and the fabulous Daintree rainforest. One premier "attraction" of Queensland is the Gold Coast which is almost exactly like, and as attractive as, the concrete jungles of the Costa del Sol. Not true Australian beach territory in my opinion and you take your life in your ...