Deason

G'day

On board the Sun Princess, just sailing away from Port Vila in Vanuatu. Captain came on the PA a short while ago explaining that due to forecasts of "hurricane strength" winds later in the week en route to Fiji, we're being rerouted to miss all four of our scheduled Fiji ports. Instead, we have four new ports in Vanuatu and New Caledonia.

I guess it's news?

People from Sydney are known locally as "Sydneysiders" :)

For all the Aussies preparing to be dazzled by encountering US supermarkets for the first time - another shock factor for Aussies is the unit size. Plastic 4 litre milk bottles or 700g packets of potato chips are common. There may even have been 2kg boxes of Corn Flakes(?)

If you need a SAO fix sometimes you can find what they call "Cream Crackers" which are a very good substitute. There's no substitute for Vegemite, though I've seen Marmite there occasionally. And Copha is, from what I can tell, entirely unknown, so no chocolate crackles during your stay.

ObTimTam: I've never had any problems bringing lots and lots and lots of TimTams into the US, Canada or the UK, just by always declaring them.

:D