We have been so impressed by the Australians. They have been so welcoming, helpful, friendly and expensive.
While we were in Sydney we had a friend who is in a wheelchair ask a bus driver if there were any handicapped buses available for one of those hop-on, hop-off buses. They said they only had one bus available, but that they would put it into service the next morning, if he wanted. The family agreed and this bus driver drove the bus all day, making a circuit each 2 hours, so that Larry and his wife could have a similar experience to the rest of us who can walk. It was so kind.
This today we were in Melbourne – what a clean, organized city!! We took a tram for several miles from the dock into the city, then got on a FREE hop-on/hop-off bus. We only had 2 hours, but we managed to see many of the sites. While we were on the tram, one of the passengers asked the driver where a specific street was. He wasn’t sure, so he made a general announcement on the bus that he needed some help finding this street. Several other passengers knew the answer, so this young couple knew just where to get off. Then an Asian lady, with limited English, got on the tram, lugging 2 suitcases and looking stressed. She asked the driver about where she should get off and he spent quite a long time studying her papers, then determined that she was on the wrong bus, so he got out of his seat, helped her turn her luggage around, reassuring her that she “would be right.” He kept saying it was only a 40 minute ride and that she would make it. I have never seen such caring in the US. We were quite impressed.
At the moment, we are back in the Tasman Sea and it is rocking and rollin’. I will have new respect for the Tasman Sea. Not a gentle sea. And today there is no storm!
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