News from Down Under
Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 12:53 am
Hi chaps,
We had a good trip down although getting up at 4 am Tuesday morning and then a five hour bus trip to Heathrow followed by 24 hours on an A380-800 takes its tole when you get to our age! Thursday was spent getting all the "electronics" to work. I had a new Samsung S7 arrive on Monday afternoon and we then bought another one to use over here from Telstra. So we had experience of two different company's after sales service.
Of course the Samsung did not work as O2 had not switched the sim card on so a good two hours was spent talking to them and getting them to understand we were in Australia and did not have all the boxes and packaging with us, (Silly us). but eventually thanks to a very good operator who worked round the problems with the aid of a safety pin this end, the phone now works.
The Telstra one was on line and we were receiving calls within an hour.
Yesterday we felt a bit less argumentative and went around the Botanical Gardens, first time we have seen it in Sprinter as they call it, it is neither Spring or Winter at the moment, Thursday we had heavy rain, freezing cold and hot sun every hour on the hour, all day. Just like home.
Tomorrow, Sunday, we are going on a trip on Puffing Billy a steam train through the Dandinong Mountains visiting wineries along the way, Should be fun although I do not know how much I will remember afterwards!
Next weekend it will be the tractor show in Deniliquin so more news and pictures then.
We had a good trip down although getting up at 4 am Tuesday morning and then a five hour bus trip to Heathrow followed by 24 hours on an A380-800 takes its tole when you get to our age! Thursday was spent getting all the "electronics" to work. I had a new Samsung S7 arrive on Monday afternoon and we then bought another one to use over here from Telstra. So we had experience of two different company's after sales service.
Of course the Samsung did not work as O2 had not switched the sim card on so a good two hours was spent talking to them and getting them to understand we were in Australia and did not have all the boxes and packaging with us, (Silly us). but eventually thanks to a very good operator who worked round the problems with the aid of a safety pin this end, the phone now works.
The Telstra one was on line and we were receiving calls within an hour.
Yesterday we felt a bit less argumentative and went around the Botanical Gardens, first time we have seen it in Sprinter as they call it, it is neither Spring or Winter at the moment, Thursday we had heavy rain, freezing cold and hot sun every hour on the hour, all day. Just like home.
Tomorrow, Sunday, we are going on a trip on Puffing Billy a steam train through the Dandinong Mountains visiting wineries along the way, Should be fun although I do not know how much I will remember afterwards!
Next weekend it will be the tractor show in Deniliquin so more news and pictures then.