25 yr anniversary (43)
Newlife08: Well tomorrow (Sat 19th Nov) is 25 yrs to the day since I arrived in Australia - for 12 mths
Can't get rid of me
Even though I had travelled a lot before I came here, I was totally naive as to what to expect of Australia. I was planning to go to USA and Canada to look up my many long lost cousins when I got a phone call from my sis and a friend "Hey fancy going to Oz for the winter??"
Errrrm East? West? Ok, sounds like a plan - why not?
And here I am - aussie aussie aussie!
It goes without saying I feel very very lucky and remind myself of that EVERY single day as I drive around the Gold Coast and think - how did I get so lucky to live here??
Can't get rid of me
Even though I had travelled a lot before I came here, I was totally naive as to what to expect of Australia. I was planning to go to USA and Canada to look up my many long lost cousins when I got a phone call from my sis and a friend "Hey fancy going to Oz for the winter??"
Errrrm East? West? Ok, sounds like a plan - why not?
And here I am - aussie aussie aussie!
It goes without saying I feel very very lucky and remind myself of that EVERY single day as I drive around the Gold Coast and think - how did I get so lucky to live here??
Just hope that after all this time, you are one of us.
Newlife08: Well tomorrow (Sat 19th Nov) is 25 yrs to the day since I arrived in Australia - for 12 mths
Can't get rid of me
Even though I had travelled a lot before I came here, I was totally naive as to what to expect of Australia. I was planning to go to USA and Canada to look up my many long lost cousins when I got a phone call from my sis and a friend "Hey fancy going to Oz for the winter??"
Errrrm East? West? Ok, sounds like a plan - why not?
And here I am - aussie aussie aussie!
It goes without saying I feel very very lucky and remind myself of that EVERY single day as I drive around the Gold Coast and think - how did I get so lucky to live here??
Can't get rid of me
Even though I had travelled a lot before I came here, I was totally naive as to what to expect of Australia. I was planning to go to USA and Canada to look up my many long lost cousins when I got a phone call from my sis and a friend "Hey fancy going to Oz for the winter??"
Errrrm East? West? Ok, sounds like a plan - why not?
And here I am - aussie aussie aussie!
It goes without saying I feel very very lucky and remind myself of that EVERY single day as I drive around the Gold Coast and think - how did I get so lucky to live here??
Congrats NewLife
and yep, Australia's not a bad place to live
It's great so I can see why ya stayed for 25 years and still here 
a lot of us on here came from overseas,i came here in 1963 on a ship from england when i was a little tacker.was a horrible trip seasick all the time lol
wash2u: Just hope that after all this time, you are one of us.
Absoloutely wash2u - although I have to confess I can't drink beer out of a bottle - have to have a glass
and can't wear thongs - can't stand that thing between my toes!
Yes, I have the passport to prove it and proud of it.
Newlife08: Well tomorrow (Sat 19th Nov) is 25 yrs to the day since I arrived in Australia - for 12 mths
Can't get rid of me
Even though I had travelled a lot before I came here, I was totally naive as to what to expect of Australia. I was planning to go to USA and Canada to look up my many long lost cousins when I got a phone call from my sis and a friend "Hey fancy going to Oz for the winter??"
Errrrm East? West? Ok, sounds like a plan - why not?
And here I am - aussie aussie aussie!
It goes without saying I feel very very lucky and remind myself of that EVERY single day as I drive around the Gold Coast and think - how did I get so lucky to live here??
Can't get rid of me
Even though I had travelled a lot before I came here, I was totally naive as to what to expect of Australia. I was planning to go to USA and Canada to look up my many long lost cousins when I got a phone call from my sis and a friend "Hey fancy going to Oz for the winter??"
Errrrm East? West? Ok, sounds like a plan - why not?
And here I am - aussie aussie aussie!
It goes without saying I feel very very lucky and remind myself of that EVERY single day as I drive around the Gold Coast and think - how did I get so lucky to live here??
Newlife you are indeed a lucky girl
Living in the gold coast awesome love to holiday there and sunshine coast / noosa
one of my fave holiday placespebbles8bambam: a lot of us on here came from overseas,i came here in 1963 on a ship from england when i was a little tacker.was a horrible trip seasick all the time lol
Hi pebbles, seems ridiculous these days to make that journey by boat? Would have been 5 weeks I think or something like that?
Newlife08: Absoloutely wash2u - although I have to confess I can't drink beer out of a bottle - have to have a glass
and can't wear thongs - can't stand that thing between my toes!
Yes, I have the passport to prove it and proud of it.
and can't wear thongs - can't stand that thing between my toes!
Yes, I have the passport to prove it and proud of it.
Thongs? Thongs? Between the toes? You must be an Aussie by now
Newlife08: Absoloutely wash2u - although I have to confess I can't drink beer out of a bottle - have to have a glass
and can't wear thongs - can't stand that thing between my toes!
Yes, I have the passport to prove it and proud of it.
and can't wear thongs - can't stand that thing between my toes!
Yes, I have the passport to prove it and proud of it.
I will teach ya how to drink a beer outta a bottle
wash2u: Thongs? Thongs? Between the toes? You must be an Aussie by now
I have a friend who still calls them Jandels. And Chilly Bin instead of Esky. WTF
Newlife08: Absoloutely wash2u - although I have to confess I can't drink beer out of a bottle - have to have a glass
and can't wear thongs - can't stand that thing between my toes!
Yes, I have the passport to prove it and proud of it.
and can't wear thongs - can't stand that thing between my toes!
Yes, I have the passport to prove it and proud of it.
I know how you feel - I get my (first) aussie passport on Monday...
But I still think a thong is stuck up your backside...
tarnsnz: I will teach ya how to drink a beer outta a bottle
It's just a ploy to make it look like I am a 'lady'
When I first met my ex husband, he came around to take me out one night and I and 2 girlfriends were just having a couple before we went out.
He told me later that even amongst his mates he had never seen anybody polish off a CARTON of beer so quick
Newlife08: Hi pebbles, seems ridiculous these days to make that journey by boat? Would have been 5 weeks I think or something like that?
yes we came over when there was trouble in yemen in the suez canal,but it was a real eye opener for me being only 8 yrs old pretty scary when we docked and i looked at every one as beig evil becuase they were all trying to sell stuff to us ,real pushy haha.i think it did take five weeks,i remember the worst stretch was the bay of biscay in portugal, i was seasick for 7 days straight .aaargh wash2u: I have a friend who still calls them Jandels. And Chilly Bin instead of Esky. WTF
cause that's what they are called 
pebbles8bambam: yes we came over when there was trouble in yemen in the suez canal,but it was a real eye opener for me being only 8 yrs old pretty scary when we docked and i looked at every one as beig evil becuase they were all trying to sell stuff to us ,real pushy haha.i think it did take five weeks,i remember the worst stretch was the bay of biscay in portugal, i was seasick for 7 days straight .aaargh
Yep it must have been tough pebbles. I have a pommie friend who got married at 21 yo, the next day she got on the boat with her new husband to head to Australia!
Not everyone's idea of a honeymoon?
Think they even had to 'arrange' with their friends a time when they could have the sleeping areas (cabin?) to themselves!
She cried for weeks.
But after almost 40 yrs she was a true blue.
Newlife08: Yep it must have been tough pebbles. I have a pommie friend who got married at 21 yo, the next day she got on the boat with her new husband to head to Australia!
Not everyone's idea of a honeymoon?
Think they even had to 'arrange' with their friends a time when they could have the sleeping areas (cabin?) to themselves!
She cried for weeks.
But after almost 40 yrs she was a true blue.
Not everyone's idea of a honeymoon?
Think they even had to 'arrange' with their friends a time when they could have the sleeping areas (cabin?) to themselves!
She cried for weeks.
But after almost 40 yrs she was a true blue.
Hey NL, happy anniversary
Yeah we came over from the UK by boat too, Mum, Dad, my three brothers and little 5yr old me
Mum was so seasick we had to get off the boat as soon as we reached WA and then took the train (!) all the way from there, across the Nullabor to Sydney.
Have movie footage that my Dad, a mad keen photographer and amateur movie buff, took during the voyage
Newlife08: Yep it must have been tough pebbles. I have a pommie friend who got married at 21 yo, the next day she got on the boat with her new husband to head to Australia!
Not everyone's idea of a honeymoon?
Think they even had to 'arrange' with their friends a time when they could have the sleeping areas (cabin?) to themselves!
She cried for weeks.
But after almost 40 yrs she was a true blue.
yeah i remember that,we were crammed in like salmon in a tin,always thought we were going to sink when i looked out the port hole and all i could see was underwater, in a big monsoon,scaryNot everyone's idea of a honeymoon?
Think they even had to 'arrange' with their friends a time when they could have the sleeping areas (cabin?) to themselves!
She cried for weeks.
But after almost 40 yrs she was a true blue.
pebbles8bambam: a lot of us on here came from overseas,i came here in 1963 on a ship from england when i was a little tacker.was a horrible trip seasick all the time lol
ditto i come on the star of greece in 68, turned 2 on the boat, dont remember much about the trip, but i do remember being put in a hostel which was like old air raid shelters ,at glenelg in adelaide which is now an horse agistment centre... a couple of the shelters are still standing... i actually got stuck in the uk, as they wouldnt let me back here when i went back with my wife as my visa ran out, 16 yrs before i could get back here all because my dad wouldnt do the citizenshipohnuts1: ditto i come on the star of greece in 68, turned 2 on the boat, dont remember much about the trip, but i do remember being put in a hostel which was like old air raid shelters ,at glenelg in adelaide which is now an horse agistment centre... a couple of the shelters are still standing... i actually got stuck in the uk, as they wouldnt let me back here when i went back with my wife as my visa ran out, 16 yrs before i could get back here all because my dad wouldnt do the citizenship
geez beaurocracy gives me the heeby jeebys,we went into a hostel the first time,and i remember being rounded up like cattle at dinner time to have a meal,felt like a concentration camp.no heating in winter except a little kero one ,and the heat in summer coming thru those tin shacks geez you could fry an egg in the huts,it sur toughened you up thats for sure,i think thats bwhy a lot of times i tend to go without some comforts as i know what one can put up with lolserene56: Hey NL, happy anniversary Yeah we came over from the UK by boat too, Mum, Dad, my three brothers and little 5yr old me
Mum was so seasick we had to get off the boat as soon as we reached WA and then took the train (!) all the way from there, across the Nullabor to Sydney.
Have movie footage that my Dad, a mad keen photographer and amateur movie buff, took during the voyage
Mum was so seasick we had to get off the boat as soon as we reached WA and then took the train (!) all the way from there, across the Nullabor to Sydney.
Have movie footage that my Dad, a mad keen photographer and amateur movie buff, took during the voyage
Wow, serene, that movie would be worth seeing? I am sure someone must have put a book together a book about the experiences of the 10 quid Poms?? Would have to be?
Nullabor? My friend also got off the boat in WA and a couple of years later DROVE across the Nullabor when it was dirt road!
Wow, must be so many stories out there?
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Can't get rid of me
Even though I had travelled a lot before I came here, I was totally naive as to what to expect of Australia. I was planning to go to USA and Canada to look up my many long lost cousins when I got a phone call from my sis and a friend "Hey fancy going to Oz for the winter??"
Errrrm East? West? Ok, sounds like a plan - why not?
And here I am - aussie aussie aussie!
It goes without saying I feel very very lucky and remind myself of that EVERY single day as I drive around the Gold Coast and think - how did I get so lucky to live here??