October 2009

Cost of Living in Australia: Alcohol. This Week: Beer

20 October 2009 Cost of Living - Australia

Beer Prices in Australia. Whilst the production team (me) here at BobinOz do not condone excessive alcohol consumption we do appreciate that some people might enjoy an occasional glass of wine or the odd beer. The occasions Mrs BobinOz enjoys wine include nightfall and my idea of an odd beer would be 11 cans of [...]

Even in Paradise……

19 October 2009 Life in Australia

I think I may have mentioned it elsewhere on this blog, but when some friends of my wife’s came to stay with us last year they commented that living where we live was “as close to paradise as you can get”. Yes, we think so too. But even in Paradise you need to put the [...]

Australia, Sharks and Death

16 October 2009 Australia's Bad Things

Perhaps you thought you were going to get away without hearing about any of Australia’s Bad Things this week, after all, I have never posted about bad things on a Friday before. Until today. It’s difficult to know what scares people the most about coming to Australia, but I imagine the top three are snakes, [...]

Cost of Living in Australia: Your Home Telephone Bill

15 October 2009 Cost of Living - Australia

Anybody living or who has lived in the UK and is somewhere approaching as old as I am, will remember the days when British Telecom could charge people whatever they wanted, treat them however they felt like treating them and banked almost 300 gazillion million pounds in clear profit every single second. Then, 25 years [...]

Kitesurfing: It Really Is an Extreme Sport!

14 October 2009 Life in Australia

Yesterday I spoke about the fastest growing extreme sport currently on our shores here in Australia: Kite surfing. But as with all extreme sports, there is an element of danger. Having sold you (hopefully) on the excitement of the sport, it would be very wrong of me not to warn you of those dangers. The [...]

Kitesurfing – More Australian Fun on the Beach

13 October 2009 Entertainment Australia

You might remember when I went to Wellington Point for a Sunday afternoon out, I got chatting to an Aussie guy about kite boarding. So what is kite boarding? Well, I think it’s more commonly known as kite surfing and it goes like this….. What I learnt about kite surfing. Jumps, which is what they [...]

Oh no! “It” Has Happened.

12 October 2009 Australian Climate

“It” has only been mentioned three times in the entire archives of BobinOz. Sami mentioned “it” in her guest post; on that occasion “it” surfaced over at Mooloolaba Beach, but of course I didn’t see it. “It” also gets mentioned twice more, firstly when I talked about the heavy storms we suffered in May earlier [...]

Skippy, Australia’s Crime-Fighting Marsupial

9 October 2009 Life in Australia

Commonly known as Skippy the bush kangaroo. It all started over 40 years ago. Skippy always saved the day. 91 episodes over 3 series. Sold to 128 countries worlwide. Viewed by 300 million viewers a week. On the 16th of September in 1956 something new arrived in Australia. It was called television. Unfortunately, it was [...]