Wow... now Tasmania is someplace I think as unbelieveably ar away from everything.
I think a lot of my sense of Australia being so far away is being in New York -- that puts me five hours from England, which I don't feel particularly emotionally close to, but is obviously a source of a lot of cultural hertiage. Whereas if I lived on the West Coast, that would be 11 hours from England and about 14 from Sydney -- not all that much of a difference.
One of the things that interested me when I was in Australia was how many people really do seem to view England as home, even if they've never lived there or have family currently there. I don't see the same thing in Canada at all, which is of course also part of the Commonwealth.
I saw this exhibit in Sydney, and I'm a big fan of photography, espeically older stuff just the random documentation of people, an it just struck me so tremendously. http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/photography/menu.cfm
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Date: 2005-04-30 01:09 pm (UTC)I think a lot of my sense of Australia being so far away is being in New York -- that puts me five hours from England, which I don't feel particularly emotionally close to, but is obviously a source of a lot of cultural hertiage. Whereas if I lived on the West Coast, that would be 11 hours from England and about 14 from Sydney -- not all that much of a difference.
One of the things that interested me when I was in Australia was how many people really do seem to view England as home, even if they've never lived there or have family currently there. I don't see the same thing in Canada at all, which is of course also part of the Commonwealth.
I saw this exhibit in Sydney, and I'm a big fan of photography, espeically older stuff just the random documentation of people, an it just struck me so tremendously. http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/photography/menu.cfm