Ainsi parlait Leon Brooks : > On Wednesday 27 February 2002 23:08, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > > Ainsi parlait Leon Brooks : > >> Well, come and see for yourself whether it's true or not. The best and > >> most productive winegrowing region in Oz is just south of here. > > > > Well, i had just a little journey at Sydney in november for a scientific > > meeting, > > What kind of science? Biodiversity & Informatics
> > and i'm still puzzled by this wonderful place. > > Sydney? Wonderful? My boy, have you ever got a treat in store! (-: Only in record stores :-) > > BTW, many thanks to > > cooker underground travel agency for all tips & tricks. > > Open source travel? Kind of. > > And i must admit australian wine i tasted were excellent :-) > > I hope Sydney's water didn't put you off. Perth's is much better > (wine-tasters have actually done proper double-blind tests on this, BION) > and we can get you fresh rainwater straight off the southern ocean if that > is to your taste. (-: Water ? When there are so many wine and beers to taste first ? > Oz is a very special place in many ways. We regularly get Japanese tourists > jumping into Perth taxis and asking to be taken to Sydney (about 50 hours' > drive at 110km/h including stops for fuel and food but not sleep, I speak > from experience) or Broome (only 26 hours drive at 120km/h, almost nonstop, > experience again). Rottnest Island, 10km from Fremantle, offers scuba > diving trumped only by places like the Great Barrier Reef. Our sunsets are > world-class. We can show you sand-dunes in red, white, grey and brown. We > don't have fresh wood sticking out of the ground like France does, but > there is some fresh wood embedded in the Sydney (Manley) sandstone. We have > flora and fauna like no other (six weeks after a good rain in the Pilbara, > it becomes a flower shop about a thousand km on a side), and the world's > biggest rock. And so on. Where do your interests fall? I'm sure we can find > something. (-: Why don't you just say that of the 23 most venomous snakes in the world, only 3 are *not* from Australia, and not in the start of the list ? That salties (sea crocodiles) can reach 7 meters long and weighs 1,5 ton ? That people in the streets just stop by and offers to help you when you're looking for your way ? All the kind of things you won't see anywhere else :-) -- Guillaume Rousse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG key http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/gpgkey.html
