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| Thread ID: 115400 | 2011-01-17 01:23:00 | Get Ready Parrotheads!! | Twelvevolts (5457) | PC World Chat |
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| 1170382 | 2011-01-30 12:09:00 | Yep about twenty minutes to the airport and then a scheduled one hour flight in an Airbus A320, but the flight only takes about 45 to 50 minutes. Unfortunately Auckland airport is not exactly close to town, so another hour to get into town on the regular land bus. I love that, the flying time is less than the trip in from the airport. Wasn't too bad a weekend, place was full of cruise ship types (elderly Americans in tennis shoes and shorts), and no one in Queen Street appears to keep left when walking like they do here in Welly. This is one of the things that REALLY p*sses me off about trying to get anywhere in Queen Street in a hurry (walking). When I was younger (and before we had an immigration influx), people walking down the street would use similar rules as driving: keeping left, looking before suddenly turning into a shop, not walking arm-in-arm three abreast, not blocking the footpath chatting to and smoking with 30 of your mates. It's just common courtesy - but like it's cousin, common sense, not that common. |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 1170383 | 2011-01-30 15:56:00 | We get the same problem here near The Queen Mary, Disneyland, Knott's and generally anywhere there are tourists and tourist's traps to catch them. They walk on the cackhanded side of the sidewalk, make sudden turns to the left and generally speak in an accent so thick you need to have a picto-graph book to communicate with them. Actually though, NZers, UKers and Australians are kinda neat to meet and watch. Besides having never learned how to make their lips move so you can at least read their lips when they are speaking 'English', they have the cutest words for things. 'Biscuts' are cookies. 'Dunny' is restroom. 'Kip' is food 'Pram' is carriage If you don't 'shout' for the 'plonk' there'll be a 'barney' and you're a 'bludge'. ....and you should see how they hold their knife and forks! I'm still working on the 'ferret' and what 'running' one means. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
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