Makes me wonder if it is accurate but blimey, we rock don't we.
rockylizard said
08:55 PM Jan 9, 2012
Gday...
No wonder it seems I never finish travelling
......and OUR country is better than all that lot in there
Cheers
John
Ma said
08:57 PM Jan 9, 2012
The mind boggles to think we can gobble up all those other countries and still have room for dessert....
jimricho said
09:10 PM Jan 9, 2012
To the best of my (limited) knowledge that comparison looks pretty valid.
And we have less than a third of one percent of the world's population!
On just about every official measure of comparative well-being good ol'Assie comes up right near the top of the list! And we still complain!!!
Have a look at which countries are in dire financial straits and compare it to the big one!
Firefly said
09:19 PM Jan 9, 2012
My overseas friends ask why we don't travel abroad.
You could do the lot of them before you made a dent in Oz ay.
Ma said
09:20 PM Jan 9, 2012
Spot on Fly AND we are much safer here anyway.
Firefly said
09:21 PM Jan 9, 2012
Except for midgies and drop bears ay.
Landfall said
09:25 PM Jan 9, 2012
Firefly wrote:
Except for midgies and drop bears ay.
Don't forget the @#$%$ Wombat's!
Dusty
Firefly said
09:27 PM Jan 9, 2012
Forgot about those pesky little things mate.
Boroma577 said
09:44 PM Jan 9, 2012
If all wombats were as tame as our Womby, they'd be pretty cool.
Firefly said
09:58 PM Jan 9, 2012
rockylizard wrote:
Gday...
No wonder it seems I never finish travelling
......and OUR country is better than all that lot in there
Cheers
John
Oh so true mate, oh so true.
Boroma, my favourite animal is the wombat, shhhh don't tell anyone.
Boroma577 said
10:26 PM Jan 9, 2012
Firefly wrote:
Boroma, my favourite animal is the wombat, shhhh don't tell anyone.
Your secret is safe with me FF.
Firefly said
10:27 PM Jan 9, 2012
Thanks B.
milo said
11:10 PM Jan 9, 2012
its funny, when over in UK a few years ago now with dad, talking to his rellies over there, they couldnt fathem how we can travel 600-1000 ks in one day.. they do 70 between towns over there and call it a day!!
NeilandRaine said
11:14 PM Jan 9, 2012
And yet we are only the 6th largest country in the world
1.Russia: 17,075,200 km2 (6,591,027 mi2) 2.Canada: 9,984,670 km2 (3,854,082 mi2) 3.United States: 9,631,418 km2 (3,717,727 mi2) 4.China: 9,596,960 km2 (3,704,426 mi2) 5.Brazil: 8,511,965 km2 (3,285,618 mi2) 6.Australia: 7,686,850 km2 (2,967,124 mi2) 7.India: 3,287,590 km2 (1,269,009 mi2) 8.Argentina: 2,766,890 km2 (1,068,019 mi2) 9.Kazakhstan: 2,717,300 km2 (1,048,877 mi2) 10.Algeria: 2,381,740 km2 (919,352 mi2) 11.Congo, Democratic Republic of the: 2,345,410 km2 (905,328 mi2) 12.Mexico: 1,972,550 km2 (761,404 mi2) 13.Saudi Arabia: 1,960,582 km2 (756,785 mi2) 14.Indonesia: 1,919,440 km2 (740,904 mi2) 15.Sudan: 1,886,068 km2 (728,215 mi2) 16.Libya: 1,759,540 km2 (679,182 mi2) 17.Iran: 1,648,000 km2 (636,128 mi2) 18.Mongolia: 1,564,116 km2 (603,749 mi2) 19.Peru: 1,285,220 km2 (496,095 mi2) 20.Chad: 1,284,000 km2 (495,624 mi2)
Brazil surprised me.
Firefly said
11:36 PM Jan 9, 2012
All so mind blowing isn't it.
milo said
12:05 AM Jan 10, 2012
as a good mate of ours would have said "Crikey!!"
Cruising Granny said
12:13 AM Jan 10, 2012
According to that map I travelled from Spain to Poland in a week. I drove through monsoonal storms in SA and Qld, dry farmland in parts of SA and NSW, floods and green lush country in northern NSW and central Qld. Such a diverse country. Summer one end, and winter the other. Rain and storms on the eastern side, and hot and dry in the west. The country changes about every 100km, huge flat regions, hilly, steep and windy ranges to reveal yet another beautiful section of country. No wonder we never get sick of travelling it. That's Australia.
jonathan said
06:41 AM Jan 10, 2012
sure is Fly .. I'm sitting here in Bulgaria without a passport .. I never got to travel overseas and now its come to us ..
Dougwe said
07:27 AM Jan 10, 2012
Now I know why I am not interested in overseas travel, It's all here anyway. Very interesting Firefly.
_wombat_ said
08:16 AM Jan 10, 2012
Dusty, FF & Bor like your comments about wombats, and FF I'm gonna tell
jimricho said
08:23 AM Jan 10, 2012
No point in travelling overseas if one has no desire to but I believe it is very beneficial to do so. It is a valuable experience to be the foreigner, the one who talks with the strange accent, in some cases looks different and speaks a foreign language. We become more understanding and less xenophobic for the experience.
It gives us a better perspective of where we really stand on the world stage, being only one and a half percent of the world's economy and a third of one percent of its population. We do not get much coverage in the world media mainly because, as travel writer Bill Bryson has pointed out, "We behave ourselves" (we don't start wars or stage revolutions)
While there is some wonderful sight-seeing in this country (our beaches are without equal) other places also have some truly awesome scenery, USA for example with its Alaskan wilderness, the thermal regions of Yellowstone National Park, The Grand Canyon, the gobsmacking beauty of Yosemite, the majesty of the Grand Tetons, to name just a few.
That said, I point out that I'm as proud an Australian as any member of this forum.
Gerty Dancer said
08:26 AM Jan 10, 2012
You're right Jim, I appreciate Australia much more after only a couple of forays into the Great Overseas. Staying here now though.
jimricho said
08:29 AM Jan 10, 2012
jonathan wrote:
sure is Fly .. I'm sitting here in Bulgaria without a passport .. I never got to travel overseas and now its come to us ..
jimricho said
08:31 AM Jan 10, 2012
Gerty Dancer wrote:
I appreciate Australia much more after only a couple of forays into the Great Overseas.
Right on cue Gert!... I deliberately left that out to give the opportunity to someone else to make that very valid point!
jules47 said
09:21 AM Jan 10, 2012
There is another one of these postcards - showing the USA inside Oz - mindboggling when you think fo the kilometres we travel, with sometimes nothing as far as the eye can see - stood on top of mountains and not seen any sort of habitation at all - just land neverending! Love it!
Firefly said
10:49 AM Jan 10, 2012
One day maybe I would travel abroad but to be honest, I have no real desire.
I have only just started looking around Oz and I have so much of that I want to see first.
Jon, that describes it perfectly.
Dougwe said
11:04 AM Jan 10, 2012
jimricho wrote:
jonathan wrote:
sure is Fly .. I'm sitting here in Bulgaria without a passport .. I never got to travel overseas and now its come to us ..
Had this sent to me by email today.
Makes me wonder if it is accurate but blimey, we rock don't we.
Gday...
No wonder it seems I never finish travelling
......and OUR country is better than all that lot in there
Cheers
John
The mind boggles to think we can gobble up all those other countries and still have room for dessert....
And we have less than a third of one percent of the world's population!
On just about every official measure of comparative well-being good ol'Assie comes up right near the top of the list! And we still complain!!!
Have a look at which countries are in dire financial straits and compare it to the big one!
My overseas friends ask why we don't travel abroad.
You could do the lot of them before you made a dent in Oz ay.
Spot on Fly AND we are much safer here anyway.
Except for midgies and drop bears ay.
Don't forget the @#$%$ Wombat's!
Dusty
Forgot about those pesky little things mate.
If all wombats were as tame as our Womby, they'd be pretty cool.
Oh so true mate, oh so true.
Boroma, my favourite animal is the wombat, shhhh don't tell anyone.
Your secret is safe with me FF.
Thanks B.
talking to his rellies over there, they couldnt fathem how we
can travel 600-1000 ks in one day.. they do 70 between towns over there
and call it a day!!
1.Russia: 17,075,200 km2 (6,591,027 mi2)
2.Canada: 9,984,670 km2 (3,854,082 mi2)
3.United States: 9,631,418 km2 (3,717,727 mi2)
4.China: 9,596,960 km2 (3,704,426 mi2)
5.Brazil: 8,511,965 km2 (3,285,618 mi2)
6.Australia: 7,686,850 km2 (2,967,124 mi2)
7.India: 3,287,590 km2 (1,269,009 mi2)
8.Argentina: 2,766,890 km2 (1,068,019 mi2)
9.Kazakhstan: 2,717,300 km2 (1,048,877 mi2)
10.Algeria: 2,381,740 km2 (919,352 mi2)
11.Congo, Democratic Republic of the: 2,345,410 km2 (905,328 mi2)
12.Mexico: 1,972,550 km2 (761,404 mi2)
13.Saudi Arabia: 1,960,582 km2 (756,785 mi2)
14.Indonesia: 1,919,440 km2 (740,904 mi2)
15.Sudan: 1,886,068 km2 (728,215 mi2)
16.Libya: 1,759,540 km2 (679,182 mi2)
17.Iran: 1,648,000 km2 (636,128 mi2)
18.Mongolia: 1,564,116 km2 (603,749 mi2)
19.Peru: 1,285,220 km2 (496,095 mi2)
20.Chad: 1,284,000 km2 (495,624 mi2)
Brazil surprised me.
I drove through monsoonal storms in SA and Qld, dry farmland in parts of SA and NSW, floods and green lush country in northern NSW and central Qld. Such a diverse country. Summer one end, and winter the other. Rain and storms on the eastern side, and hot and dry in the west.
The country changes about every 100km, huge flat regions, hilly, steep and windy ranges to reveal yet another beautiful section of country. No wonder we never get sick of travelling it. That's Australia.
sure is Fly .. I'm sitting here in Bulgaria without a passport .. I never got to travel overseas and now its come to us ..
Dusty, FF & Bor like your comments about wombats, and FF I'm gonna tell
It gives us a better perspective of where we really stand on the world stage, being only one and a half percent of the world's economy and a third of one percent of its population. We do not get much coverage in the world media mainly because, as travel writer Bill Bryson has pointed out, "We behave ourselves" (we don't start wars or stage revolutions)
While there is some wonderful sight-seeing in this country (our beaches are without equal) other places also have some truly awesome scenery, USA for example with its Alaskan wilderness, the thermal regions of Yellowstone National Park, The Grand Canyon, the gobsmacking beauty of Yosemite, the majesty of the Grand Tetons, to name just a few.
That said, I point out that I'm as proud an Australian as any member of this forum.
Right on cue Gert!... I deliberately left that out to give the opportunity to someone else to make that very valid point!
stood on top of mountains and not seen any sort of habitation at all - just land neverending! Love it!
One day maybe I would travel abroad but to be honest, I have no real desire.
I have only just started looking around Oz and I have so much of that I want to see first.
Jon, that describes it perfectly.
I'm still in Aussie land.
Me too and this is where I intend to stay.....
another one
Makes you wonder doesn't it
Rosie