I can vouch for your experience.
We stopped at Perth/Freemantle for five days in ‘94.
Five marriges, 2 went AWOL for them.
2 Marines were TOLD to NOT go kangaroo boxing and ended up with massive injuries after ignoring the order.
Shattered ribcages, broken arms, legs, etc.
STUNNING women. They DO stand on the pier with their phone numbers on large billboards.
Their Burger Kings are called Hungry Jacks.
They don’t drink Fosters beer.
I loved Australia.
Fosters???? Bloody roo pi$$ mate!
I liked the Castlemaine XXXX when I spent some time in Brisbane in 1972. Also had a lot of fun a few times on Kings Cross in Sydney.
S’truth!
Jack-In-The Box.
I don’t know what it is about Aussie women and agreeing to marry American men on short notice.
In 1972, I was in Brisbane for 9 days, met a young blond Aussie girl and 12 days later when I was in Hong Kong I sent her a telegram asking if she would marry me.
In May we will have been married for 43 years. I think she thought I had a lot of money back then but when she got to Minnesota and we lived in a town of 300 she began to put two and two together.
Wonderful people most Aussies. In 1999, I spent a year in Sydney putting together a book for the Olympics in 2000. I had to hire people and I soon learned not to expect them back when they went out for lunch on a Friday.