Tassie's Zeehan & Queenstown panned as "ugly" by speeding scribbler for new magazine. {Re-sending}

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rec.travel.australia+nz. My first effort to re-send, a few minutes ago,
produced nothing but white space for the body of the message. Usenet has a
mind of its own.)

Tennis writer 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.

--
Arfur Moo

On Thu, 26 May 2005 07:56:19 +1000, Arfur Moo
announced to an awaiting world :

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".

I spent 3 weeks in QT in March whilst spending several hours there during a bus
change, traveling Strahan to Hobart. One of the party famously claimed "Why
would you live in Queenstown when suicide is an option ?". Very run down, almost
deserted (was a Saturday), mostly trailer-trash types buying beer, and closed
businesses everywhere. Also misplaced my mobile there at the time and the
******* who found it hasn't contacted me (had my contact details enclosed).

DS

On Thu, 26 May 2005 22:15:24 +1000, David Springthorpe
announced to an awaiting world :

I spent 3 weeks in QT in March whilst spending several hours there during a bus
change, traveling Strahan to Hobart. One of the party famously claimed "Why
would you live in Queenstown when suicide is an option ?". Very run down, almost
deserted (was a Saturday), mostly trailer-trash types buying beer, and closed
businesses everywhere. Also misplaced my mobile there at the time and the
******* who found it hasn't contacted me (had my contact details enclosed).

But it DOES have the now re-furbished West Coast Wilderness Railway (to Strahan,
and operated by Federal Hotels), which is a growing tourist-puller.....

DS

On Thu, 26 May 2005 07:56:19 +1000, Arfur Moo
wrote:

(Herewith my second attempt to re-send with the addition of
rec.travel.australia+nz. My first effort to re-send, a few minutes ago,
produced nothing but white space for the body of the message. Usenet has a
mind of its own.)

Tennis writer 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?

No, the writer is an Australian.

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.


Rachel Miller, of Zeehan's three-and-a-half-star Heemskirk Motor
Hotel, said Australian Traveller journalist Suzi Petkovski - who
compiled the list - must not have left her car.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=51073


The list of the Top 10 "Must See" and the Top 10 "Drive Through Towns"
as reported:
http://www.etravelblackboard.com/ind...av=21&id=38449

Cath

The list of the Top 10 "Must See" and the Top 10 "Drive Through Towns"
as reported:
http://www.etravelblackboard.com/ind...av=21&id=38449

Oh, my god, see this list. I saw some of the "Must See" and "Drive
Through Towns" during my two australia visits 1993 and 1998 (including
Zeehan and Queenstwon). Hahndorf...well...I saw Hahndorf as a
time-document of german immigrants as I saw Queenstown as a
time-document of tasman mining history. And: we drove through Hahndorf
with just 2 hours stop there and we spend one night at wonderfull
Queenstown Empire Hotel.

"Niels Osmers" wrote in message
...
The list of the Top 10 "Must See" and the Top 10 "Drive Through Towns"
as reported:
http://www.etravelblackboard.com/ind...av=21&id=38449

I remember heading down to the Franklin River blockade in the 1970s and if
you looked like you might be going to oppose the dam then Queenstown was
definitely a "drive though and don't get out of the car" town if you were
averse to broken bones.

novus

On Wed 1 Jun 2005 at 12:33:33 +1000, Novus at
wrote in :

"Niels Osmers" wrote in message
...

The list of the Top 10 "Must See" and the Top 10 "Drive Through Towns"
as reported: http://www.etravelblackboard.com/ind...av=21&id=38449

I remember heading down to the Franklin River blockade in the 1970s and if
you looked like you might be going to oppose the dam

For the younger members of our readership I think you should remind us which
river the dam would have been built across.

then Queenstown was definitely a "drive though and don't get out of the
car" town if you were averse to broken bones.

novus


Ah, well. That's water over the dam that never was. Electric Eric and his
disciples are now history. Tasmania and its inhabitants have moved on.

PS: Pedder will live again!

--
Arfur Moo