Quote Originally Posted by LDAHL View Post
I'm told that Australia took several of my ancestors some time ago, and they didn't even want to go.
The witnesses at my wedding sum up Australia to me. The female: Greek, aged six when her family emigrated from Corinth. Her parents opened Greek restaurants in Adelaide at a time when Aussie cuisine consisted of a T-bone steak topped with a fried egg as breakfast; husband... Well the manacle scars from his ancestors were still fresh in his family lore... As Aussies say ... They live in 'God's Own Country'! Both highly successful, I met them when we all worked in London. We're still friends, decades later.