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Welcome to our blog, Genzano it story
and this post, On the way to Australia
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On the way to Australia
Happenings on the way to Australia
Dear readers, this post is the continuation
of our last post, going to Australia, so, let us continue from where we left
our story.
During the fortnight that the ship took to
cross the Indian Ocean, every one of us was wondering his own way about the
future in Australia and what we knew about Australia; in my own case at some
stage of this crossing I would start wondering how hard it would be to live in
the driest continent on earth, as I had learned at school that Australia is
very dry compared to other continents or countries. So, what would the supply
of water be like, and what about the westerly wind be like, I remember that my
teacher had said that these winds last up to three months, so, I was asking
myself, is it going to be just as bad and as cold as winter times winds of
Italy, who knows? You see to cross this stretch of water of the Indian Ocean
was taking too long and therefore it was becoming even boring to go out on deck
just to see the sea water and the sky above. So no wonder we were thinking so
many strange things.
There is something else that I found out on
the Indian Ocean, which was not good news for me; but let us start this story
from the beginning. You see, in those times when you went overseas from these
small towns like Genzano, anyone that had relatives would like to send a
present or something to their relatives, or at least their greetings or
something like that, and also if you went to a relative house to stay when you
arrived in Australia, you could not and would not go there without bringing
some presents, from your family and their families, so you can imagine how loaded
you were with your own presents and friends presents when you boarded the ship,
and I tell you I was loaded too with all this stuff.
Now forgive me my readers if I all of a
sudden I start talking or thinking, or comparing if you like about today TV
shows like border security, instead of talking about my journey to Australia,
but you see, I was coming from a country town and most presents were not bought
at the shop, they could be food or something that could not be allowed to go
through customs in Australia, so every time I see something on TV like border
protection show, I cannot help thinking that I have been in the same position
myself, when I first came to Australia, but anyhow on the ship I had plenty of
time to work it out, as I was talking to some people that had been in Australia
before, so I was able to avoid the worse.
Among other things on the ship I had two
demijohns of local wine, which I was sure that would be very much appreciated
from the people that I was going to stay with in Australia, for people that
don’t know what a demijohn is I will explain, A demijohn is a large round glass
container dressed with something like woven straw, in my case I had two of them
one was ten litres, and the other seven litres, in addition to that and strange
as it may seem I had some (lampagioni) small wild onions, which I slowly
realised could never go past customs, so when I was sure that they would not be
allowed to enter Australia, I dumped them in the Indian Ocean. I had also some
local homemade large beautiful biscuits and other stuff. Anyhow let me talk
about the two demijohn of local wine now, because for a long time anyone that
were sailing with me on this ship would remind me of this event; these two
demijohns were in my cabin and there wasn’t any way to restrain them properly,
so, when the sea was rough they were sliding across the cabin floor until one
of them broke that is why my passenger friend always remember and remind me
about the good lost wine.
These are some of the happenings during my
journey to Australia. Anyhow after a fortnight we reached the continent of
Australia and docked at Fremantle in Western Australia. Hurray, we have made it
to Australia, now we are going to see what Australia is like and if it would
bring us good fortune.
But we are going to do that in our next post,
as people today don’t like tong articles. So, see you soon in our next post
called, first positive impressions.
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Genzano it story
On the way to Australia
IS GOING TO BE CONTINUED;
Next time with, first positive impressions
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Genzano it story
On the way to Australia
IS GOING TO BE CONTINUED;
Next time with, first positive impressions
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