Quote Originally Posted by auld argonian View Post
Get thee to the bookstore and pick up a copy of "In A Sunburned Country" by Bill Bryson. Bryson also wrote "A Walk In The Woods". Both are very funny...not in a ROTFLMA way but in a more subtle and literate way.

"Sunburned" is a chronicle of his travels in Australia. In "Woods" he hikes the Appalachian Trail and the comic hook is the ever present possibility that he's going to encounter a bear. In "Sunburned" he's constantly worrying about encountering one of the seemingly hundreds of venomous critters that inhabit the Land Down Under.

You'll love it.

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Not to hijack the thread but Bill Bryson's "Notes from a Small Island" is my favorite of his. It's a humor travelogue writen while he walks from one end of Great Britain to the other. (Dover to John 'o Groats) Get it

Back on topic: I subscribe to a live and let live philosophy but when a spider is big enough to hunt me down I think I'll avoid the area.

I assume I wouldn't run into one of these in downtown Sydney.