Tassie's Zeehan & Queenstown panned as "ugly" by speeding scribbler for new magazine

(Herewith re-sent with the addition of rec.travel.australia+nz.)Tennis w
riter Suzi Petkovski probably didn't even give herself time to find a
half-decent court in either Zeehan or Queenstown when she sped through (in
her words she "floored it" through Zeehan) both "ugly" west-coast Tasmanian
towns in March this year while skimming some shallow feelings from that
world-famous region for her story headed "See it or flee it" in the
suspicious first ("June 2005") edition of the Sydney-based monthly magazine
_Australian Traveller_.

Is she from the USA? She talks of Zeehan as having "trailer-park town
planning", and of Queenstown as "a shoo-in" for Australia's "most butt-ugly
town".

The ostentatiously US-hack nature of her writing is a cert for some sort of
award. Any ideas, anyone? Meanwhile, please give her a wide berth on the
roads. She'll probably be passing through another intolerably ugly part of
Australia.

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Arfur Moo

On Thu, 26 May 2005 07:48:17 +1000, Arfur Moo
wrote:

\0(Herewith re-sent with the addition of rec.travel.australia+nz.)Tennis w
riter Suzi Petkovski probably didn't even give herself time to find a
half-decent court in either Zeehan or Queenstown when she sped through (in
her words she "floored it" through Zeehan) both "ugly" west-coast Tasmanian
towns in March this year while skimming some shallow feelings from that
world-famous region for her story headed "See it or flee it" in the
suspicious first ("June 2005") edition of the Sydney-based monthly magazine
_Australian Traveller_.

Is she from the USA? She talks of Zeehan as having "trailer-park town
planning", and of Queenstown as "a shoo-in" for Australia's "most butt-ugly
town".

The ostentatiously US-hack nature of her writing is a cert for some sort of
award. Any ideas, anyone? Meanwhile, please give her a wide berth on the
roads. She'll probably be passing through another intolerably ugly part of
Australia.

A google search shows that her background is basically as a
tennis specialist writer; she has been writing for Tennis
Week, mainly about Oz players, since the late '90s.


Cheers, Alan, Australia