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[fivemack]

[Poll #518184]

I may have missed out some really obvious destination 'near' Australia; never sure as to the value of 'near' to use in that part of the world.

I never cease to be amazed at the number of huge cities in Indonesia whose names are not household words; Bandung's bigger than Liverpool, Ujung Pandang the size of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. And just how big places that you know as 'what's the capital of Sudan?' pub-quiz answers are: more than seven million in Bogota or Lima or Kinshasa; nearly six million in Khartoum, which I know only as a small desert settlement in a Flashman novel.

Comments

[davidcook.livejournal.com]

Oooh, just for me ?

Sadly, I'm just as untravelled in my former-local-area as over here. I never even made it to Perth ! And I'm only counting Bangkok because I've been to the airport a few times for up to 8 hours :-)

("Near" is a tricky concept when Sydney to Perth is around 4000km - ie roughly the same as Glasgow to Baghdad, or to somewhere well beyond Moscow.)

[nassus.livejournal.com]

I agree with this. Yes and aside from the definition of near there's also the expense. Just flying internally in Aus is still relatively expensive. We dont have the luxury of cheap easyjet flights all over the place. (which I guess is a good excuse for 5m not visiting Adelaide when visiting Oz) <-: