Travel

[rebness]

Well, I'm off to Alsace next week for a sabbatical, by which I mean lovely mountains and Colmar and Mulhouse and Strasbourg and general Alsatian excellence. I should be saving now. I shouldn't contemplate other trips abroad until afterwards, right?

£130.

£130 for six nights in Rome, with regional flights, transfers and funky accommodation close to Vatican City. In May. Of course, jaffacakequeen and I booked. OMFG ROMA!

Comments

[ozfille]

But then rebness like all residents of the UK will be deprived of our new super shiny ads promoting Oz, because the ads are considered too rude for delicate English, Welsh, Scots and Northern Irish ears. They will not hear the dulcet tones asking "Where the bloody hell are you?" in our most cultured tones. How can we expect these poor benighted people to truly understand the wonders of Oz? *g*

[saffronlie.livejournal.com]

... seriously? Hmm. Possibly a bad choice of slogan there, Tourism Australia. But still, how can anyone really be offended at "bloody" these days? This seems like a case of "picking and choosing" what to take or leave from our culture. I mean, oh, sure, they like Steve Irwin because he works with cute and weird animals and says "crikey", but they can't handle a real ocker phrase. Pommie bastards*.


*with the exception of Becky, and all other UK residents who read this. Unless you're uptight whinging Poms.

[rebness.livejournal.com]

Bloody weird Aussies. :p

[pandorasblog]

Oh yeah, they had something about this on our local radio. Considering some of the lewd stuff that turns up on the likes of BBC Radio 1 on a fairly regular basis, I can't imagine why they think delicate British people will keel over at the word "bloody". *shrugs*