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Pat's Uninteresting Tours
Pat's Uninteresting Tours was a series of themed route bus tours that offered an alternative to the usual sightseeing tours. Taking passengers on a four-hour comedy excursion to downmarket locations it operated in Sydney, Australia during the mid to late 1980s. The premise was to conduct paying passengers on a bus and expose them to ordinary situations in incongruous contexts - actively avoiding normal tourist attractions and visiting uninteresting sites. These included wine tasting at a rubbish tip, "experiencing fresh air" at the sewage works and formal dinner at a road-side diner. Passengers were encouraged to dress in tourist garb for the day tours and tacky evening wear for night tours. After TV New Zealand program ''That's Fairly Interesting'' recorded a segment, tours were conducted in Wellington, Christchurch, Palmerston North and later Auckland. Beginnings Patrick McGeown created the concept in 1978 whilst serving on board the Royal Australian Navy warship HMAS ''Perth' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMAS Perth (D 38)
HMAS ''Perth'' (D 38) was the lead ship of the guided missile destroyers operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Built in the United States to a modified version of the Charles F. Adams-class destroyer, ''Charles F. Adams'' design, ''Perth'' entered service with the RAN in 1965. The destroyer made three deployments to the Vietnam War, earning a RAN battle honour and two United States Navy commendations for her service. The majority of the ship's career was spent on training exercises and goodwill visits to other nations, with one deployment as far as the Mediterranean. ''Perth'' was decommissioned in 1999, and Sinking ships for wreck diving sites, sunk as a dive wreck off the coast of Western Australia in 2001. Design and construction ''Perth'' was the lead ship of three guided missile destroyers built for the RAN.Cassells, ''The Destroyers'', p. 81 Based on the United States Navy's , ''Perth'' had a Displacement (ship), displacement of 3,370 tons at standard load, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
