Goods and Services Tax. (VAT essentially)
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Yeah. I found it massively surprising 
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Like making love in a canoe???
(stolen from Monty Python 
)
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Also, we found, they were massive American wannabes. The kiddos at least. There was a massive influence of American pop culture there.
We thought the same though. Deffo not the home and away dream that the marketing material likes to portray.
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I surfed with dolphins on that beach
I absolutely caked my load 
And went running out - they are bloody MASSIVE 
Some gorgeous houses on the hillside there, especially the “UFO” one 
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That’s Palm Beach. We’re you there in Oz winter? See them regularly that time of year
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Yeah - hailstones the size of golfballs the day I landed, wasn’t prepared for that at all 
It was around the time of the Olympics being built. Not the actual event. Remember Bondi having a stadium on it 
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steak house and fish restaurant in lakeside area where there were 10 restaurants, I ate on first night in hotel, that was $100, the steak house and fish restaurant both $80
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A person who lives and works from home in a Vegan household. You are right though, the burger was too much and I only ate half and just touched the chips
On last day I had a Creole Crab and Prawns combo, that was $50, 2 beers were $9 each, tip was $12 to make $80. Not a fancy place… however, it was very nice.
What is wrong with 2 beers? I can only claim for one though
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Aha! That makes perfect sense now 
Mmm…love prawns and steak 
I’m from Yorkshire, so this 
$9 for a beer
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Yeah culture/language etc all seems to be a strange mix of British and American (even more than Britain has moved towards American culture) with a very small amount of their own interests.
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Print more Gold 
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Just seen early weather forecast for 6th, I know its a long way out, current forecast is 29 degrees max, 76% humidity and light winds, possible rain in PM
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I think its safe to say it’ll be hot, humid and windy
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Insert ‘Good Morning Viet Nam’ clip here.
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10miles on bike and 1.6miles on run seems OK to me but Ive never stepped off a bike after 112miles in midday heat in a caudren like Hawaii to run a marathon.
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Interesting if it does stay like that, maybe reached a tipping point with the locals as well now.
They were asking for volunteers for StG recently as well.
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The FPros get a bit of a raw deal with coverage too, being on a Thursday is surely going to reduce the number of 
on their race
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