• Our Oz Experience trip in Australia

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  Sep 30

  I boarded my Oz experience coach to Cairns on a rainy grey day in Sydney.

  The Oz experience bus I took was pretty eye catching with its bright yellow colour and was also pretty comfy with leather seats and air conditioning. They kind of encourage you to get to know each other on the coach, and you have to play a kind of musical bus seats, where when you hear a certain song played you must walk around the bus untill it stops, then sit in the first seat available and talk to the person next to you.

  I couldn’t count how many times we stopped, but at every stop it was like Groundhog Day “So here we have a McDonalds Cafe, theres a Hungry Jacks or a Pizza Hut.” We were SICK of the idea of junk food. Apparently Australia is one of the most obese countries on the planet, and although I only saw skinny people, I can now beleive that fact. You know, They have some strange names for fast food restaurants, such as “Red Rooster” and “Chicken Treat”.

  Its probably worth mentioning at this point the names issue in Australia. “Hungry Jacks” is Burger King- god knows why they changed the name for Aussie people, but apparently they would be much more hungry at Hungry Jacks than they would be for “Burger King”. So, I was also surprised that their main supermarket is Woolworths, because in England Woolworths has gone under in the GFC.

  Our next destination was a Surf school. It’s location is a secret so I cant tell you the location, but the surf lesson is included in the Oz Experience trip. So, You have to pay a surcharge of around for your food and accommodation but at least you get the lesson for free. You know, We were given tents, which all looked very similar, and boys kept “accidentally” walking in on us getting changed. So, We were herded like cattle to get our food like in a prison and then we all gathered round a camp fire with our drinksn for a bit of a sing along. Okay, Its amazing how, even if they are completely unnattractive, instructors in any discipline appear to be sex gods. Look here, One of the instructors of course was an aspiring musician and continued to sing badly on his guitar and promote his CD.

  Girls were sitting on the floor right in the instructors face like true groupies.

  Stay tuned for part two of my road trip to Cairns.

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