Street vendor in London... It was probably rat meat.

We went to Bondi beach, but Bondi Junction wasn't really a destination for us to go to. We didn't hear anything about it being great. It could be amazing, but we didn't go there. I'm just wondering what is so great about it.

That’s a conspicuous lack of response to something a little effort went into. I guess lilmac’s still bitter about our LoTR: TTT BO debate, that he lost.

Definitely come. By all accounts if you’re more into nature than urban stuff, it’s hard to top on the whole. Not just saying that cause I live here, lol. The more exotic scenery is at the top and bottom; North Queensland and Tassie - but Tassie’s extremely rugged (check out the films Van Dieman’s Land and The Hunter for an idea), whereas anything from Cairns upwards is a natural paradise. It’s been pretty common for Hollywood productions to use NQ as a stand-in for tropical island settings.

Recommend checking out the Atherton Tablelands, which is inland from Cairns and has these incredibly awesome volcanic lakes with scattered colonies of giant lizards called water dragons (which look like fat oversized Iguanas), and which have this emereld green colour and over summer become about as warm as a bath. Cape Tribulation north of Port Douglas is great for camping and day-long beach and bush walks where you rarely run into anyone. Saw an old naked dude there once, actually.

Tassie is more Lord of the Rings-ish - Cradle Mountain, Coles Bay, Walls of Jerusalem, have some of the best scenery you’ll find anywhere, and the flora and fauna, especially around Cradle, may as well be from another world.

Heaps of good shit along the coast, but those two get the best feedback from tourists. Especially since MONA opened. Melbourne’s the best urban centre if you’re into the arts; Sydney and especially the Gold Coast if you’re looking for hot women. I swear the average cup size in Goldie (and Brisbane) is a full letter difference over the southern states. It’s like they all migrate up there. Guessing a similar thing happens in Venice Beach and Miami.

Apart from that it really depends on what you’re looking for. You have to get out of the cities to encounter the Crocodile Dundee culture, but it’s still alive and well if you know where to look. Sydney and Melbourne can easily be mistaken for cities in Asia, depending on which suburb you’re in; we’re extremely multicultural. The best strippers can be found at The Mens Gallery, Melbourne, I’d say, but MadGez might know of some better ones.

$171m x 2 = TTT's literal gross.

Haha. This really doesn't matter, but I can't help myself. First you said you missed this because of some notification setting problem, then that you couldn't remember Jiffy on BOR (he had the same username and was one of the most well-known cross-over posters between here, BOR and BOM), and now you're saying the same thing you said in '03-'04, that you were trolling. We went through that, lol. You were a BOM poster with not many posts that drifted in occasionally---the prediction was never taken seriously, but there was a culture there of ball-busting. A genuinely heated debate happened between me and a poster called Gladiator about whether he should see TTT (lmao), but can't say I share your recollection of things in the prediction space.

Edit: should add this is obviously slight ball-busting in and of itself---in case it gets lost in translation with how much I crapped on about it: we're talking 17 years ago, haha. And you're spot on, stuff like that was funny as hell back in the day.

Daniel took the BOR brand after the forum closed down (it's back up...?) and merged with boxoffice.com for a time. He's an excellent webmaster and perhaps one of the best people to partner-up with. He's been at it for a long, long time. Super nice guy, too.

Yep, New Zealand's there as well. Fuck that though. Give us your tourist dollars: look-up Kakadu National Park. It's super well catered for tourism and it'll satisfy practically every Australian itch you've got. And really watch The Hunter. It's hard to overstate the otherwordly nature of Tasmania, even compared to NZ.