17. Australians seem to appreciate unique and contemporary industrial and interior design, much more so than Americans. What does that mean? Even normal, cheap outdoor restaurant chairs have a unique shape or unusual color. Coffee shops are uniquely decorated. I've yet to see a cookie-cutter house model anywhere, even in the bush. There are unique lighting fixtures everywhere...
18. Most servers in restaurants in Syndey are learning to speak English. Lots of people from Asian countries come to Australia to live for months at a time to either learn or perfect their English. So what that means is you'll have a server who is really good at the English on the menu, but if you ask for anything that's not directly on the menu, both the server and you have to enter into a sort of sign language style of communication.
19. Finally finding a good radio station in the Tablelands. It actually ended up being the live music feed from the Splendour in the Grass Festival that our cook from the Whitsundays trip was attending in Byron Bay...
20. Driving on the other side of the road. Waaay cool. I did it in the Hunter Valley and around and around the Manly Wharf as I waited for Ash to pick up gelato for church dinner from Gelatissimo, where she used to work. I drove around and around and around and around....and around. And got really good at it. Except for turning left. I still kind of it the curb with the back wheels....
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