A few differences in Oz

One eye was continually looking for us. Pint on left, Schooner on right, tard in the middle

Australia is similar to Great Britain in many ways, but also very different. For example they have our Queen on all their money, yet the notes are made from PLASTIC! Apparently this is useful when making the crucial mistake of washing your jeans with a tenner in them! If you go to a restaurant, many of them boast that they are BYO! Yes people, Bring Your Own booze! So you just waltz in there with your bottle of red and ask for a glass! More confusing however is that you can't just walk down to your local Tesco's and buy a cheap bottle of wine or beer....we spent hours walking round Woolworths (a supermarket here..I know...stupid!) trying to find the booze ailse to realise that it was dry as a bone. Apparently in Oz most places aren't licenced to sell booze other than off licences. So we have been frittering away our hard earned cash there! Despite the heavy drinking image that the Aussies have, they can't even handle a full pint either. We were in some bar and we met some Aussie boys who were quite smashed and talking away at us whilst drinking their beer. They were drinking 'Schooners' which are the equivalent of pints, but only about 2/3rds the size. So we challenge these boys to go and order a pint, which they do, and one of them comes back marvelling at the huge size of this pint, dwarfing the stupid schooner, and says the quote of the year.....'Aussies are girls'! That's correct. On a final note, Burger King is called 'Hungry Jacks' in Australia. I say no more.