{"id":11653,"date":"2013-06-01T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/struth-weird-questions-to-australian-travel-agents\/"},"modified":"2013-09-17T15:52:21","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T15:52:21","slug":"struth-weird-questions-to-australian-travel-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/06\/struth-weird-questions-to-australian-travel-agents\/","title":{"rendered":"Struth! Weird questions to Australian travel agents"},"content":{"rendered":"

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IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis wonders what mind-pictures some people in the UK must have of us.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

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Travel agents there have compiled a list of some of the weirder questions they’ve been asked by people thinking of visiting Australia, amongst them such gems as:<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

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. Can you wear high heels in Australia?<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

. Are there supermarkets in Sydney?<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

. Will fresh milk be available year round in Sydney for my baby?<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

. I want to walk from Perth to Sydney \u2013 is there a railway line I can follow?<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

. Which direction is north in Australia?<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

. I am visiting Australia and I have large breasts; as it is on the underneath side of the world, will I need a special bra?<\/p>\n

. Do you have a map of where I can find ATMs in Sydney? <\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

. Do they have ATMs in Sydney’s suburbs as well as in the city?<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

. Are the instructions on ATMs in Australia in English?<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

. Does the sun come up in the morning in Australia, or is it later because it is on the other side of the world? <\/p>\n

. Can I do a day coach trip (from Sydney) to Ayer’s Rock?<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

. And of course someone had to ask their agent this: Do they have fish and chips shops in Australia?<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis wonders what mind-pictures some people in the UK must have of us. \u00a0 Travel agents there have compiled a list of some of the weirder questions they’ve been asked by people thinking of visiting Australia, amongst […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[240,1],"tags":[377],"class_list":["post-11653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-struth-3","category-uncategorized","tag-struth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15657,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11653\/revisions\/15657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}