Jauntcast.com

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Have you had a great time somewhere and want to tell people about it? Or you've been on a jaunt somewhere that really steamed you up and made you wish you'd never gone? Set up a blog here! It's free.

And if you want to talk about other things you can do that too!

Here's an example.

A few years ago I decided that spending money on a bus trip to Canberra was probably a good idea, if I wanted to visit Floriade. Bus or coach tours are quite popular in Australia, due to the limited places for planes to land. But we wanted to experience a bit of travelling so we thought we'll do that by coach.

Well, we thought we'd save some money so booked ourselves on a coach run by a Chinese tour operator. We thought, as we were going to Floriade, a flower show in Canberra, that it didn't matter who we chose.

Boy were we wrong!

Follow up:

The driver spoke in Mandarin the whole way to Canberra and stopped the bus at every tourist destination along the way, even though the advertising promoted Floriade. He also drove way below the speed limit. The bus practically crawled to Canberra.

So, by the time we actually got there, we only had half an hour to see a show spread across hectares. We were extremely annoyed that our whole day trip was wasted. We swore that we would never again take any cheap coach tour without fully knowing what we were in for.

Several years later we finally went back to Canberra to visit Floriade. This time by Countrylink. Definitely worthwhile.