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| Jane, who is much
better at reading guide books than me (I always read
them on the way back to see what I missed, and it's
often quite a shock) discovered something wonderful
in the book she was reading. Did I know, she asked,
that Brisbane was originally founded as a penal colony
for convicts who committed new offences after they
had arrived in Australia
I spend a good half hour enjoying
this single piece of information. It was wonderful.
There we British sat, poor grey sodden creatures,
huddling under our grey northern sky that seeped like
a rancid dish cloth, busy sending those we wished
to punish most severely to sit in bright sunlight
on the coast of the Tasman sea at the southern tip
of the Great Barrier Reef and maybe do some surfing
too. No wonder the Australians have a particular kind
of smile that they reserve exclusively for use on
the British.
Douglas
Adams [more...]
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