Australia – The Little Things That Makes it Diffrent
After having spent a couple of weeks on this continent I have noticed a few things that has stuck to my mind, tiny things that differs from what I’m used to back home.
First of all the traffic is a lot diffrent here. You have the obvious left traffic phenomenon but that’s just the way it is. More intresting is that pedestrians here have to give way to cars instead of the other way around as it is back home. We even saw a sign in Airlie Beach where this was pointed out at a crossing. There is also no law that says that the front lights of the car has to be switched on even during the day. This makes it very hard to know if a car is moving towards me or if it’s just double parked. And it makes it even harder to estimate the distance between me and a car coming towards me. I’m glad we have this law back home.
Secondly, everywhere you go you see the influences from England. You have the Breakfast at cafes, or brekkies as they call it, consiting of scrambels eggs, bacon, sausages, beans and toast. Ofcourse there is almost always the option to have a Big Brekkie which is pretty much the same thing as the small one just twice the size in most places.
You also have all the bristish pubs and restaurants. They are all over the place serving typical english food and beer.
Water prices is a funny thing aswell. You can often find a small bottle of water, 0.5l, for about $2.5 just to look at another shelf and find a 1.5l bottle of the same brand for $2. It doesn’t make sense but I’m not the one to complain.
There’s a lot more on the list but this is what I can think of from the top of my head so I’ll leave it at this for now 
