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Originally Posted by WarpSpeed
$1800 could buy you a very entertaining four days if you stayed put! 
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Heehee.
My older brother is getting hitched, no way would I do it otherwise. Actually I'm kind of sad that he and his fiancee didn't tell me not to get them a present. Given that I have to drop that much money on the flight, and they already have my fridge and crockery from when I lived in Australia, I'd have thought that might be enough. I love my brother dearly but my pockets have limits. :P
In fact I find the whole concept of wedding gifts increasingly outdated. The original idea was to give young couples a hand with setting up house, which is totally cool. But a lot of couples live together before marriage these days, and/or get married much later in life when they've already been living independently for several years, and therefore already have their house stuff sorted. More people seem to be asking for nothing, or say to kick in for the honeymoon or even donate to a charity if you
must get them something. Hooray for progressiveness and changing with the times.
Today I overheard a woman say, "I'd only consider getting married for the presents." Totally serious about it. Um, yay... a good excuse to wangle stuff out of your closest family and friends? :/
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Originally Posted by Comrade Pants
Yeah! You could start by - wait, is this a vice filled four days or boring and puritanical?
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I can't believe you even need to ask this of me.
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Originally Posted by Alcoremortis
Isn't there a middle ground where you cover every historical site of importance in a single country during four days? Because that's what I'd do. No time for vice when you're too busy sprinting to the next attraction.
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Not a bad idea! Although for such a trip I'd choose somewhere like Liechtenstein (62 sq mi) rather than Australia (2,969,907 sq mi) - I just don't sprint quite
that well.