{"id":4839,"date":"2017-11-15T18:19:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T02:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=4839"},"modified":"2017-11-26T21:48:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T05:48:43","slug":"to-the-land-down-under-darwin-australia-11-15-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=4839","title":{"rendered":"To the Land Down Under \u2013 Darwin, Australia \u2013 [11\/15\/2017]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"So long Asia\u2026g\u2019day Australia.<\/p>\n

Ever since I read Bill Bryson\u2019s In A Sunburnt Country<\/em>, I\u2019ve formed a funny opinion about Australia. With the world\u2019s deadliest snakes, jellyfish, sharks, riptides and spiders \u2013 it seems to be the only country on earth where the land itself<\/em> is actively trying to kill you from the moment you set foot here!<\/p>\n

That said, the people more than make up for it.<\/p>\n

I am just as happy to leave Asia behind us, although I still deeply miss Japan (ah ,so many peaceful memories!), and I will always love Hong Kong (three cheers for Hong Kong Disney!) there is something about Asia that I find\u2026a little bit stressful. Not sure exactly why that is, perhaps I am a little to prone to let my distaste for mainland china influence my overall opinion \u2013 hopefully I will get over that as time continues to go on.<\/p>\n

But I am looking forward to our stay in Australia. I do love it here, even when I only get to see parts of it from the ship\u2019s promenade deck (all hail IPM). And soon enough we will be in New Zealand and that<\/em> is always worth waiting for\u2026I still think that if I could live anywhere in the world that wasn\u2019t Canada, New Zealand would come very close to topping the list.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s hard to believe is that I\u2019m almost certain we\u2019re now past the half-way mark, we now have less time left on this particular adventure than we have already passed.<\/p>\n

I often wish it wasn\u2019t the hard contracts that move at a slog and the great ones that move like a roller-coaster\u2026washing the time away on the wake behind us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So long Asia\u2026g\u2019day Australia. Ever since I read Bill Bryson\u2019s In A Sunburnt Country, I\u2019ve formed a funny opinion about Australia. With the world\u2019s deadliest snakes, jellyfish, sharks, riptides and spiders \u2013 it seems to be the only country on … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[96,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fire-ice-2017","category-grand-asiaaustralia-2017"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3GtNE-1g3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4842,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839\/revisions\/4842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}