In my backpacking days through Latin America, I met quite a few backpacking Aussies. I would say that per capita, Aussies were the most backpacking people on earth. Given the distances they traveled from Australia, many made their backpacking trips for a year or 2. As you said, quite likable. I also worked in the oil field in Latin America with some Kiwis- one a full-blooded Maori. In working the same time with a Kiwi and a Limey (Brit) , I found out they like to rag on each other. Pommies.....
I saw a cricket match in London. Regents Park, I think. I was wearing a Hawaiian shirt, so everyone pretended I was invisible. Clearly not someone to strike up a conversation with. Not like the hurling math in Dublin where a gent with a pipe and a large dog was happy to explain the general scheme of things to me.
I have read up on cricket and understand its scoring better than I did, but still not fully. Like most games, it all becomes clear if you play it a few times, I'm sure.
And Uncle Sam does field the international cricket equivalent of a minor-league team (which, even as the Cubs were winning their first World Series in over a century, was also in the process of winning a tournament). Travel's not in the budget, though.
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In my backpacking days through Latin America, I met quite a few backpacking Aussies. I would say that per capita, Aussies were the most backpacking people on earth. Given the distances they traveled from Australia, many made their backpacking trips for a year or 2. As you said, quite likable. I also worked in the oil field in Latin America with some Kiwis- one a full-blooded Maori. In working the same time with a Kiwi and a Limey (Brit) , I found out they like to rag on each other. Pommies.....
Second choice. First choice?
I agree, although I admit I lost my temper with one recently while he was talking about how much wiser it would be if America had kept a queen.
@ Richard Johnson - I was thinking that staying here would be first choice.
Taking everything into consideration I might actually choose the UK, though their politics would bother me even more than ours.
Nah, I was right the first time. Australia second after America
I'll stay here, mainly because here still gives me more leeway than elsewhere because "here" is a big place.
They have penguins, and I'd be interested in seeing a cricket match someday (I have done research on the sport).
I saw a cricket match in London. Regents Park, I think. I was wearing a Hawaiian shirt, so everyone pretended I was invisible. Clearly not someone to strike up a conversation with. Not like the hurling math in Dublin where a gent with a pipe and a large dog was happy to explain the general scheme of things to me.
I have read up on cricket and understand its scoring better than I did, but still not fully. Like most games, it all becomes clear if you play it a few times, I'm sure.
And Uncle Sam does field the international cricket equivalent of a minor-league team (which, even as the Cubs were winning their first World Series in over a century, was also in the process of winning a tournament). Travel's not in the budget, though.
https://www.espncricinfo.com/scores/series/8782/season/2016/icc-world-cricket-league-division-four?view=results
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