{"id":8376,"date":"2012-03-27T16:58:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T16:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.priddybooks.com\/?p=8376"},"modified":"2012-03-27T16:58:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T16:58:04","slug":"tales-from-down-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/gb\/news\/tales-from-down-under\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales from down under"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have just come back from from a trip to Hong Kong and Australia to visit our publishing partners Macmillan Asia and Macmillan Australia, as well as meeting up with some of their key customers.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong \u2013 We sell a lot of our books in Asia and it was really good to get out and visit some of the book stores in Hong Kong and listen to the comments of the people that work in the book shops \u2013 good for ideas too. Like everything in Hong Kong, the three days went past in a blur and then it was off to Australia&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-8376 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/oz-1.gif'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/oz-1-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8441\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8441'>\n\t\t\t\tMelbourne\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/oz-2.gif'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/oz-2-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8442\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8442'>\n\t\t\t\tMelbourne City Centre\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/oz-3.gif'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/oz-3-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8443\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8443'>\n\t\t\t\tMelbourne Trams\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/oz-4.gif'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/oz-4-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8444\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8444'>\n\t\t\t\tMelbourne\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/oz-6.gif'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/oz-6-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8446\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8446'>\n\t\t\t\tFruit Bat, Sydney Botanical Gardens\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/oz-9.gif'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/oz-9-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8448\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8448'>\n\t\t\t\tSydney Opera House\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/oz-10.gif'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/oz-10-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8449\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8449'>\n\t\t\t\tRainbow Lorikeet\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/oz-11.gif'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/oz-11-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8450\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8450'>\n\t\t\t\tWatson&#8217;s Bay, Sydney\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/oz7.gif'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/oz7-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Sydney Harbour Bridge\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8451\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8451'>\n\t\t\t\tSydney Harbour Bridge\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I have the same view as Bill Bryson when he says that Australia is a truly wonderful place. It is one of the best places to visit in the world with great countryside, great food and the weather is pretty good too. I take great pleasure in England beating the Australians at any sport going so it was a bit irritating to find out that the people that I met could not have been nicer.<\/p>\n<p>I visited the Macmillan offices in Melbourne and then went onto their offices in Sydney. I was asked which city I preferred and despite Sydney looking fantastic I&#8217;d have to go for Melbourne \u2013 the food was amazing, including some of the best ice cream that I had ever tasted (the apple was my favourite) and the coffee in Melbourne is as good as any in Italy that I have tasted.<\/p>\n<p>Favourite airline \u2013 Air New Zealand<\/p>\n<p>Favourite music on the flight \u2013 Agnes Obel and Seeker Lover Keeper<\/p>\n<p>Favourite film on the flight \u2013 Drive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just come back from from a trip to Hong Kong and Australia to visit our publishing partners Macmillan Asia and Macmillan Australia, as well as meeting up with some of their key customers. Hong Kong \u2013 We sell a lot of our books in Asia and it was really good to get out <a class=\"more-link\" aria-label=\"Read more about Tales from down under\" href=\"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/gb\/news\/tales-from-down-under\/\">Read More \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[41,85,114,438,439],"class_list":["post-8376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-rogers-blog","tag-australia","tag-books","tag-children","tag-roger-priddy","tag-rogers-blog-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}