The Cost of Living in Australia – It’s Bananas!
In Mondays post, about three years in Australia, I wondered whether my views would change now that I have got through the honeymoon period. As I write this, I’m fast approaching my fourth anniversary...
View ArticleThe Cost of Living in Australia Update: Groceries
Just over two years ago I did what I referred to as “a meaningless grocery price comparison chart” comparing Australian food prices with those in the UK. If you want to know why I thought it was...
View ArticleAustralian Cities: Most Expensive in the World?
A couple of weeks ago I did an update on the cost of living in Australia when I went grocery shopping again. I pretty much bought all of the same things I had purchased two years ago and was shocked to...
View ArticleCommon Colds and Flu in Australia
I’ve been waiting to write this post for a good couple of years now. It’s not a post I’ve not been looking forward to writing, but it is a post that I knew I would write one day. That day is today. So...
View ArticleThe Cost of Toys in Australia
A couple of years ago I did a cost comparison post between England and Australia on the price of toys. At that time, from the selected toys I looked at, Australia ended up being 11% more expensive than...
View ArticleA Happy New Year from BobinOz, Without the?
Three years ago on January the 1st, for some very crazy reason, I started this blog. The starting the blog bit possibly isn’t the crazy idea, but the date is. It means that I now spend every blog...
View ArticleAustralian Holidays and Popular Destinations…
On Monday I wrote about Things To Do During the Long Summer Holidays. That article was about a long weekend away, but what do Australians do when they want the biggie, the two week (or more) summer...
View ArticleLife in Australia: Furniture and Fittings
Every weekend for the people living in Australia the routine is almost always the same. We arise to be greeted by a rapidly heating golden sun nesting in a clear blue sky. We gleefully pack picnics,...
View ArticleSchools in Australia and NAPLAN
I have written quite a few posts about schools and education in Australia here on BobinOz.com. Like these….. State Education in Australia: Year 2 Homework – June 2011 Australian Education: A Half Term...
View ArticleOur Ninth Full Year Living in Australia: 2016
There are several sayings about being late. To be ‘fashionably late‘, for example, is somehow cool and something to be looked up to. Then there is the very forgiving ‘better late than never‘ kind of...
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