44 Things That Surprise Visitors to Australia
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- A deep dive into 44 surprising aspects of Australian culture that often leave international travelers scratching their heads. Whether you're a curious traveler planning your first trip or simply want to learn more about this diverse nation, this video is packed with fascinating insights and hilarious observations that will give you a fresh perspective on Australia.
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The shops shut early because Australian's are paid properly (therefore expensive to hire) and we allow everyone, including retail employees, to have a good work-life balance. If you can't get to the shops during to 50-60 hours per week they are open then tough luck. Also Rundle Mall, where you took the picture, is open 9am - 5pm on Sundays. I don't know any supermarkets that close at 1:00. They either close at 5:00pm or don't open at all (at least in SA). Small supermarkets under (400m2) are open in the evening and weekends. You can get all sorts of stuff at petrol stations and they are mostly open 24 hours.
I don’t think Australians are so much intrigued by American as completely bewildered by it! 🤨
Definitely 😂 🇦🇺
Guys, I]m so proud, we got another one with the drop bears!
Hah
It's the great Aussie joke we love to play on tourists.......🐨🐨🐨🐨🐨🐨
Except he's so stupid he thinks they are normal Koalas!
@@Rottnwoman you don't need to be rude. Chris is a nice guy, and the whole reason the joke works is because usually every animal in Australia IS trying to kill people!
I found NO DRUG commercials on tv in Australia very refreshing
The word “drug” in Aus is only used for the illegal kind. That’s why we don’t call it a “drugstore” but a chemist or pharmacy instead. The legal kind is called medicine here. It’s true that you don’t see a lot of ads selling them - maybe it’s due to our different health insurance schemes?
@@kismetauTV only promotes medicines we can buy over the counter. For everything else, the doctor prescribes it and we take the script to the pharmacy to supply them for us. No prescription, no buying.
We were fascinated by your commercials last time we were in the US!
It's banned in most countries. @kismetau
No lawyers ads. No drugs incl prescription. No stores selling weed. Vapes regulated,
Going to Australia, specifically Sydney, for the first time next week! This was all so great to hear! (P.S. Excited to see you at TravelCon next month!)
Take advantage of our extensive public transport system in Sydney. Take the train from the international airport to the central business district with Circular Quay being right on the harbour. The ferry network is clean and operates until midnight and is a great way to experience our beautiful harbour. You don't need to purchase an opal card. You can tap on and off at any opal reader with your credit/debit card, but each member of your group must have their own card. There is a daily and weekly cap on all fares, and when you reach the cap, all subsequent journeys are free. Enjoy your stay.
Australia is not just Sydney. I live 55 km south of Melbourne and have wallabies in the reserve behind my house. Koalas are also around the area. Bin chickens are actually straw necked ibis.
Right on! Enjoy Sydney and see you at TravelCon!
The other fantastic way to view the Opera house, is from the water. I strongly suggest that you take the ferry to Manly. This takes you right past the Opera House and pretty close too at times (but this is very much a luck of the draw sort of thing).
The. Manly ferry takes you along the full length of the best part of the harbour, that's basically from the bridge/circular quay (pronounced Key BTW) accros the heads to Manly wharf. When you get of the ferry. Walk straight ahead down the Corso (foot traffic only) and it's only a very short walk to Manly Beach. Bondi Beach is overrated, a tourist trap, and a lot harder to get to.
If you want to see the rest of the harbour (well most of it at least) take the Parramatta ferry as well, (this Really needs to be a return trip as the connections from that wharf are less than ideal, far far less). The harbour proper ends and the Parramatta rivers starts about Cockatoo Island.
Sydney Harbour is largest natural harbour in the world, so you may as well see it.
Have fun.
@@mareky1234Watch for the Seal that lounges on the Opera House steps facing the harbour.
Sushi in Australia, even at the cheaper end, is made on the day and not kept overnight. Often you'll find bento boxes sold at a cheaper rate at the end of the day, if you're looking for a cut price meal.
I live in suburban Sydney and I woke up to a kangaroo sleeping in my garden. Admitedly, there is a lot of development and road work near me so I can only assumed it was displaced due to urban sprawl. However he had to come through other suburban areas and across many main roads so his appearance in my garden was very unusual. Fortunately a wildlife rescue came and relocated him to a more suitable environment.
Bird attacks are magpies only (which are everywere in Australia), where you can get swooped for a few weeks each year if you go near their nest. Only ever one magpie at a time - they don't attack you in numbers like the movie. Pretty harmless really, but it can be a bit scary.
Fruit across state lines depends on the state and it's usually about preventing fruit fly incursions, and in some significant wine growing regions, about preventingthe spread of phylloxera. It also includes honey, so check the rules when you buy.
Paying by plastic in Australia is 90% Eftpos which is from your savings account not credit card account.
We eat them cold and individually with jam and whipped cream, or butter and Vegemite, or butter and peanut butter, or peanut butter and banana slices, or strawberries and banana, etc. We generally buy Pikelets which are just smaller versions, we also make pikelets at home but it’s a long process, so breakfast isn’t the time for them. Breakfast is usually Weet-Bix or Rolled Oats, hot in winter and cold in summer. Most of us prefer to avoid high sugar cereals.
Drop bears is a Aussie 'take the piss out of the tourist' joke. Aussie humour 😄 😅
Iced sweet tea is much less of a thing to Australians. We drink our tea the British way, cold water from the tap, boiled in an electric kettle and poured into a teapot or cup, whether loose leaf tea or tea bags.
@@Jeni10 we don’t have unsweetened ice tea like they do in America. Over there you get iced tea with no sugar or sweeteners which tastes ghastly or sweet tea which is liquified sugar. The only decent bottled iced tea in America is Snapple or Arizona.
@ I don’t drink branded tea drinks, I make hot tea with Yorkshire tea bags. 😋😋😋🇦🇺🇬🇧
Plenty of ice tea here but it’s usually bottled. Liptons is the most popular brand. T2 now have their own bottled ice tea.
Eemew. Not eemu.
@@Jeni10me too (from Melbourne)
This is the most perfect timing! I'm heading to Australia in May. Can't wait. Japan first though!
Sweet! Im sure you'll enjoy both countries!
In the 1970s Australia had a shocking rate of road deaths. A huge amount of legislation has come in since to fix the problem, always based on good science.
At places like Westfield shopping malls, the regular goods shops may close at 5 or 6pm, but a lot of the newer complexes will have a restaurant precinct that starts to pick up after 5pm. So they have a second shift of sorts.
The Sydney Ferries will also take you home if you live near the water. It’s part of the Public Transport System - Rail, Bus and Ferry network.
There was already an Australian business called Burger King before the American business arrived.
But the term ‘Take Away’ makes more sense. To say ‘To Go’… my response would be ‘Go where?’
Drop bears: Koalas primarily eat eucalyptus leaves. They are not active animals because their diet is low in nutrients.
A sleepy koala may fall out of the fork of a eucalypt tree and grapple for a branch with their long claws.
If a tourist happened to be under the tree and the koala had nothing to break its fall, it may land on a big scary human, frightening it into clawing or biting.
This seems more likely.
Aussie boomer here, from Sydney. I never heard about ‘drop bears’ until about 15 years ago.
Shopping Hours in Australia are governed by state laws. That said for example Canberra has no regulated shopping hours, shops can open whenever they like, but they still don't, albeit most shops are open 7 days and supermarkets typically til 9-10pm and earlier on Sunday like 8pm.
Also 99% of the time your order should be taken within 5 minutes of sitting down. I'd have left the restaurant if it took them 30minutes to order, but service is much slower in tourist areas IMO.
Australians dislike the credit card surcharge.... Lots of places don't charge it though, like supermarkets and major stores. Its really more a restaurant and small business thing.
Being so close to Asia, South East Asia in particular, it’s understandable that we get a lot of immigrants from those countries, and since their cultures differ slightly from each other, they each have their own foods and flavours, and Aussies have always loved Asian foods and exploring new flavours, just as Americans enjoy Mexican and Puerto Rican flavours. So here in the big cities, you can find foods from Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, etc, and most of all, Hong Kong and China, since they have been here for several generations.
Asian food is not just in big cities. It's in just about every town also
Indian too!
@@Rottnwoman Yes, there are four near me!
The Capybara is native to South America.
Not in Australia.
It is only in the last 10 years that I have heard of them, in crosswords or a trivia quiz.
There were a few in the Melbourne zoo in 2020. Maybe he thinks Wombats Re Capybara?
yeah what a weird comment - why would aussies have dedicated shops etc for capybaras when they don't exist in Australia???? apart from zoos
That is Paul Hogan’s actual Aussie accent, but it’s much broader than most because of where he grew up and went to school.
Long train trips - there are long train trips in Australia, but they're generally run as luxury affairs you have to book for several months ahead, eg the Indian Pacific or the Ghan. They do serve food as it's part of the tour experience.
There are also some long distance trains within each state (which also sell food) but it's usually cheaper by bus and quicker by plane to do Sydney to Melbourne, for example.
The XPT in NSW has a cafe on board.
If they pay by cash, they can definitely divide the bill. As a group, you just do it at the table and then pass the cash to the cashier. No one really worries about the change, it can go into the tips jar or be sorted at the table if there’s a need.
Years ago, I took a youth group out for dinner. There were sixty of us snd we ran our young uni student waiter, ragged! We kept him on his toes for three hours. After we had desserts, I requested everyone chip in a dollar so our fabulous waiter could take home $60 extra. Everyone agreed, and the waiter was chuffed to bits! 😃🇦🇺🇦🇺
The drop bear story is just a joke that Australians play on new visitors. It should be said, though, that wild koalas are definitely not cuddly. Even those in zoos that have been trained to be held by people just sit there and pee on your shirt. There’s no interaction at all.
You forgot to mention the reason for the public holiday and Sunday surcharge in restaurants is because Australian workers get paid real wages and do not have to rely on tips ( which are pretty much non existent ). The companies that they work for are committed by law to pay extra wages on those days so as a consequence the customer pays more. But don’t complain Americans, remember you do not pay 15 to 20 percent tips on your bill.
More like 30% now.
The birds that are known for swooping are Magpies and plovers. They swoop when you are in their territory or nests.
Hi Chris. Welcome home and hope you had a great time in Australia. Never been to Australia and found some of things very surprising.The two I thought was very surprising was that the supermarket closes so early and that you have to pay extra because it's a holiday. Thanks for sharing and take care.
We pay our workers double time to work on public holidays.
Late shopping: Since most CBD workers live in the suburbs, they catch public transport home as soon as the work day ends. That’s where they do their late shopping. It is very expensive to live in the inner city in some cities, like Sydney.
In large suburban shopping centres, supermarkets are open until 10pm every day, except a couple of public holidays.
In some large suburban centres there are 24/7 Kmart stores. Outer suburbs are very car-centric, especially after working hours.
Woolworths in Yass opens late too, less so in winter.
stores close so early cos the workers have a life
Late Night Shopping started in the 1970s. As most people were paid (in cash) on Thursdays, Thursday was chosen as the Late Night trading day.
Fridays in Canberra
Yeah-Nah means No, because the negative comes last.
Nah-Yeah means Yes, because the positive comes last.
Queensland trains have a cafe car, and bring microwave dinners to your seat. The sunlander Brisbane to Cairns is longer than a day, you can shower too. The ghan goes to western aus, with gourmet meals. Prices are similar to planes.
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We can go from shop to shop in the malls, with a trolley to carry the bags, and end up in the supermarket with all the bags too. Our groceries are packed for us, but in queensland we have to bring our re-usable shopping bags with us.
Curb and kerb both exist in English but have different meanings. This is called a homophone: same sound but different meaning. Noah Webster decided one word would do for both meanings in the US so he removed half of the homophones for his American Dictionary.
Examples:
Curb - Verb, to curtail or shorten, eg, to curb your appetite so you can lose some weight.
Kerb - Noun. The concrete barrier next to a road that guides storm water away from the road and guides it down the storm water drainage system.
Tire - Verb. To become weary, to lose energy.
Tyre - Noun. The rubber on wheels that help to cushion your ride.
Check - Verb. To look for errors in a document or calculation.
Cheque - Noun. A document issued by a bank, either individually or attached to your account, in order to remit payments. Etym. French.
Simplified English in the USA, for a Simplified population.
There are plenty of long distance train trips and yes they have sleeping and dining. The Indian Pacific rail journey between Sydney and Perth via Adelaide is a bucket list trip for many Australians. It’s a four day, three night trip with short sight seeing stops that travels right across the outback. You can also do Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth but that involves changing trains. There are trains between capital cities, trains doing sight seeing journeys within states and some long commuter journeys like Sydney to Kiama which passes through the Royal National park and follows the coastline with views of the ocean for a good part of the trip.
Capybaras just aren’t a thing here, possibly because they are native to South America, possibly because our strict bio security laws make owning one illegal or most likely because we have our own cute wombats, a marsupial with a similar appearance.
Drop Bears are not the same as Koalas. Drop Bears are a more feral, and very dangerous cousin.
CC Surcharges are rare and are required to be displayed for patrons and holiday surcharges are for gazetted public holidays only, you won’t get them on a regular Saturday or Sunday unless perhaps you’re at a tourist trap.
I found credit card surcharges to be quite common in Sydney on this trip
I live in Aus and every cafe/restaurant in my town has a CC surcharge of around 2%. Utility bills, rates, flights, hotels, theatre etc etc all CC charges.
Thanks for the shout out Chris my buddy. Din Tai Fung in Melbourne has also recently shut down. From memory, it's been replaced by a Chinese dumpling restaurant.
Anytime Ben! 😀
Crocodile Dundee is a caricature of the ocker accent from 40 years ago. You may find people who talk like that, but they're not common in urban areas.
No, we don’t use archaic measurement systems at all. We are 100% metric. The car rental company was an anomaly, not the rule.
Probably Hertz or another American company. We use Europcar, always in km.
The pancakes look like pikelets!!
If a car hits a big roo at speed it could bust the radiator, or make the car undrivable, which could be dangerous on a long, deserted road in semi-rural areas or the outback. The roo bar protects the car, not the roo.
During lunch hour, many of those sushi places sell out of the full rolls within 90 minutes. You can ask for a fresh roll and they will make it for you. The full rolls are popular in Japan, not just Australia.
My Japanese friends said they’ve never seen the long uncut rolls in their country as they always cut sushi up. And when I visited last year I also couldn’t find them there or in the US. I’ve heard they are an Aussie thing.
I think the host was upset that we call canned tuna rolls “sushi” when it’s not raw fish - he’s right! 😅
@@kismetau weird as all the sushi places in aus are run by Japanese so they must know how to prepare and sell sushi
What you may not realise is that we have Laws to protect our environment as well as our native flora and fauna. So there are fines for littering, and advertising campaigns for decades promoting “Keep Australia Beautiful” and “Clean Up Australia” so we are all proactive in being alert to such things.
Speaking of protecting Australia, if you’re coming to visit, make sure you study our Border Security Laws, DECLARE everything, hide nothing and don’t lie on your Declaration Card because it’s a Legal document and you can cop heavy fines for failure to Declare. Baggage checks occur before you head to the carousel, so they know who to invite for inspections. They are to protect Australia’s unique ecosystem, our farmers and our food crops, as well as our nature and wildlife, from pests and diseases and dangerous goods that are not allowed into Australia. So don’t feel offended or feel like a victim, we are protecting our borders, not looking to offend you. 🇦🇺👍
ALL baggage is X-Rayed too.
Except for Sydney, most of the other capital cities are on a river.
The street scape may be different when there are so many bays and inlets around the harbour and other waterways. This seems to make Sydney appear less European. Also in the 1970s a lot of beautiful architecture in Sydney was demolished to be replaced with modern glass and steel towers.
The Queen Victoria Building (QVB) and a few other sandstone landmarks were saved.
They tried to demolish the Rocks area. The Rocks is where people first lived when the colony was first established. The BLF (Builders Laborer’s Federation - Union) led by led by the union secretary Jack Mundey, put Green Bans on the area. The Green Bans meant no one would demolish the buildings… and so the area was saved.
Where the people are living the supermarkets are open to late at night. In the cbd no one lives supermarket is not open.
It’s called Rundle Mall not Adelaide Mall. It’s in the Adelaide CBD. Melbourne has Bourke St Mall, Sydney has Pitt St Mall, Brisbane has Queen St Mall
Koalas are not drop bears mate. Someone's been blowing smoke. Drop bears are mythical savage bears that drop from above unexpectedly and tear you to pieces. Koalas aren't even bears hahaha
I cannot agree with your pancake comment. Pancakes aren’t popular in Australia. Donuts are not a big thing either. Well, at least not in the north where the climate is warm for most of the year.
Nor here in the frozen south.
Curb is a verb in English. Kerb is a noun. They are not interchangeable. I have never understood the American usage of Curb. Its use is to curb your progress forward?
29:10 - Thats not why the "LOOK" signs are on the road. Many foreign drivers don't stop at zebra crossings, the signs encourage people to look up and make sure the car/vehicle has stopped before crossing. While it is the law to have drivers stop, that doesn't mean much if you get hit by a car from someone disobeying the law.
Don’t litter, and not littering in general is very ingrained into the Australian psyche. We don’t often infringe on other people, but drop a bit of garbage on the ground… then look around - you’ll defo see a LOT of negative looks, more than likely though is that someone will chip you about it.
Snakes are venemous (bite) but edible (not poisonous). You cant eat them as they are protected though. Our animals are not aggressive but defensive. If you leave them alone they will do the same
Usually ,Unless by accident.
Except for Tiger Snakes
Re our opening hours… surely you can organise your life so that you get your groceries at a reasonable hour. Let the workers go home. The larger shopping centres will stay open longer. It really depends on where you live. Rural towns tend to close early, city shops late. Etc.
Hard to organize that as a visitor arriving into Australia on a Sunday afternoon to find everything closed. Especially tough if the airline loses your luggage
@@YellowProductions Then don't fly with an American airline!
Aussies work to live,not live to work.Stores in America pay their workers low wages.Aussies get paid a fair wage for a fair days work,Government have laws to protect workers, unions fight for the rights of workers.A lot of people hate unions, and to be fair some are Questionable,however the majority are there for their members.All of this adds up to Aussies have a good lifestyle.
Capybaras are not Australian animals, they’re from South America, esp. Brazil. The closest looking native animal to a capybara would be the Wombat.
“While wombats look like short, stocky bears, they are actually marsupials, related to koalas and kangaroos. Unlike other marsupials, their pouch is rear-facing. The backward-facing pouch is an advantage to a digging wombat because it prevents the pouch from being filled with dirt.”
Thanks for the correction on the Capybara!
i think Chris was talking generally about animals in zoos.
All due respect, but asking why we don’t have capybaras is the same as asking a German why they don’t have kangaroos in their country? In my 40 years living here, I’ve never seen one not even in a zoo, only when I travelled to Brazil.
I live in a small town in regional Victoria and I get koalas in my backyard trees all the time. They often appear in our town centre and have even been photographed walking into shops. Kangaroos (wallabies) are frequently seen bouncing along a street. Whales visit our harbour over winter and can be seen leaping out of the water. We even have a 1 ton elephant seal visits every year and spends a few weeks around our local beaches. Get out of the big cities and these are common sights.
You've been to Australia 4 times and haven't heard of swooping magpies or plovers during nesting season?
Really?
Chris, the reason you’ve never seen the Australian White Ibis before is because they’re waterbirds whose habitat is inland where there are/were ponds and shallows where they could wade and catch fish, molluscs, small mammals and other foods, that is until a combination of drought, stolen habitat and errors in environmental judgement, caused their natural habitat to disappear and they headed towards the coast to find water and food. People are creatures of habit and so the Ibis soon found open food scraps in the waste bins all around the cities. Since they’re so much bigger than the cockatoos, they look ungainly on the rim of a bin, searching for food scraps. This is going to have a long term effect on the health of their population, because they’re not meant to be on this human diet! They’re also showing signs of being dirty from the city dust and air pollution, and they don’t wade like they were meant to do to stay clean.
Different species of Ibis are also depicted on the walls of ancient Egypt!
Thanks for the background info on the Ibis
Long distance trains in Australia. How long do you want? Sydney to Perth is a long one. Adelaide to Darwin is a lomg one. Brisbane to Cairns, Brisbane to Sydney, Sydney to Melbourne, Melbourne to Adelaide - I could go on and on.
That bin chicken - it's actually an Australian white ibis. A subspecies of the sacred ibis. They're wetland birds that got pushed into urban areas and thrive there.
Absolutely do we have long distance trains. Sydney to Perth, Adelaide to Darwin, Melbourne to Cairns (3 different trains Melb to Sydney, Sydney to Brisbane & Brisbane to Cairns
Enjoyed this video! Very well-presented. Thank you!
Thanks Liv!
In the States a lot of your casual workers are working for peanuts and have trouble surviving on tips, we don't have the tipping system here, our workers are paid a real wage. Australia is home to two of the world's longest passenger trains, first is The Ghan which travels from Adelaide in South Australia to Darwin which is in the Top End, a distance of 2,979 km (1,851 miles) it measures over one Kilometre in length and on average it consists of 35 to 40 passenger cars. The other long train is The Indian Pacific which is over 750 metres long and travels from Perth in Western Australia to Sydney in New South Wales a distance of 4,352 km (2,704.21 miles), this trip has the longest stretch of straight track in the world (300 Kilometres without a bend).....
I lived in Brisbane but always wanted to go to Perth.
Perth is nice. Good vibe, everything you need. Nice asia town, malls. Clean air! Visited recently from the US.
A great place to visit. HIre a car and travel around the south-west.
Chris, you need to visit Perth and do a vlog. Lots of interesting attractions and places to visit around WA, especially the south-west.
Agreed. I'd like to visit Perth!
In Queensland super markets are open till 9 pm every night.
There are only two poisonous spiders in Australia: the Sydney funnelweb (which can kill you) but is found only in a very small area, and the redback which has a painful bite but is not deadly. Redbacks hide away in dark sheltered places, so you're not likely to accidentally run into one. Every hospital has antivenom. The last death from a funnelweb was 1979 before antivenom was widely available. Same with snakes - death from snakebite is very rare. There are 80,000 to 140,000 deaths from snakebite in the world each year (plus 400,000 permanently disabled or disfigured). The number of deaths in Australia per annum is between 2 and 4 i.e. less than the number of fingers on your hand. And those would be people in remote areas. this "everything wants to kill you" thing is way overblown.
Redbacks are close relatives of the Black Widow.
That tall comment must have come from an Asian😄 If you want to see a tall race of people, the Dutch stand out to this Aussie.
And Croatians. But we are 1.5 inches taller than Americans, on average.
Koalas are not drop bears. Drop bear is a mythical creature that us Aussies tease tourists with. You have to watch out for the bunyips though
And Hoop Snakes!
Hope you enjoy visiting Australia 🇦🇺
We changed the laws and reduced the exorbitant road tolls down by a significant percentage.
I'm a 49 year old Aussie and heaps of these surprised me. Pre wrapped pancakes and Vegemite on fries??? When did this happen??
Hah. Glad I'm not the only one who was surprised :)
😅 Hi Chris… good vid. Just a note because you mentioned it twice. You are confusing Capybara with Wombats. The Capybara are native to South America and are Rodents. Capybara are not found in Australia. Australia’s beloved Wombat is the stuffed toy you showed. They are native marsupials (mammals with pouches) like kangaroo and koala. Marsupials only found in Australia and New Guinea.
Thanks for the correction!
The stuffed toys were Capybara- or very bad Chinese Wombats 😂
Another tourist falls for the “drop bear” joke. 😂 No, that’s not what we actually call them.
34:44 Cathy is wrong here. Many restaurants will ask you to sit back down and they will bring your bill to the table and the EFTPOS machine.
And dont take your card away as that how scammers clone cards. I struggle with rhe approach in the states where to disappear with your card
Capybaras aren't native to Australia! They're a South American animal.
Correction: Kilometres and miles aren’t used interchangeably. We’re 100% metric, 100% kilometres. If the car rental company issued paperwork referring to miles it’s likely because the booking was made via an American website and they thought they were doing the customer a favour.
Miles is used so you understand it not us
I'm from Oz, Melbourne to be exact and the Emu pronunciation is not E - MOO, it's E- M-YOU, hope that helps, good video full of useful information for people from overseas.........
There are over 300 Kmart's stores in nationwide and some are 24 hours - not to be confused with the Kmart USA thats ceased trading
LAURA, yes, you can eat on long distance trains but there’s also a dining car if you’ll be on board for more than 24 hours. You can enquire about this when making your booking.
Shops are open longer in different Cities and towns.
Why does he mention Capybaras there from South America
sorry Chris, my last comment was a bit rude, glad you love my country
All good David 😀
Those stores are not related to ours. To save me typing another long explanation, google them. 😃👍🇦🇺
“The name "Woolworths" was legally taken to capitalize on the F.W. Woolworth name since they did not do business in Australia, and had not registered the trademark there, but is in no other way connected to the U.S. or U.K. Woolworths.”
I have NEVER seen shops close at 1pm in Adelaide. Supermarkets are open 6am to 9pm Mon-Fri, then 6am to 5pm on Saturday & 9am to 5pm on Sunday. No idea where you went
I don't think he has any idea where he went either 😂
Sydney still is the biggest City. Was on the news today lol. The Government made a mistake in their population forecast and Sydney still is the biggest.
Chris I recently said Hello to you at Circular Quay on Australia Day.
I remember. Great to meet you!
Things that surprise me about America: Noo-tella. Surely because Nutella is made of nuts the 'nut' bit is pronounced like that? Nut-ella.
They say "new-tella". Weird?
I agree to Melbourne feeling more European than Sydney. Although I have to say it also gave me a bit of a Boston-vibe.
Everything is metric. Your car's odometer was in kms not miles so your rental car company either converted it for you or wrote miles by mistake.
Thanks for the video.
Brisbane ferries are also great. I used them to get up and down the river a lot.
I also paid all with credit card, except I got some cash to leave for the hotel maid.
The hotel maid will be paid $24 an hour, save your money.
@@Rottnwoman I even tip in Europe where they are also well paid. It's a thank you for cleaning up my mess.
24:00 There is definitely Outback Steakhouses in Australia. I have one 2 kilometres away from my house. It's not too difficult to fact check using Google Maps :)
Its got zero australian authenticity. Started by americans
@@paulgerrard9227 that wasn’t the question. Please watch the video.
Penrith one is still open.
Magpies swoop on people but only when they are protecting their nests & babies!
Melbourne is not a bigger city than Sydney
You can't bring fruit between certain states because of the states that have fruitfly infestations. Bringing that fruit into a state where the fruit is grown could destroy the industry.
And I made it. A day late and a dollar short lol
Close! :)