I made an unpleasant remark in a recent post about the town of Geelong and feel a few points providing clarification are in order.
- I have never visited Geelong, not even for an afternoon tea
- I do not know one individual personally and directly who lives or ever has lived in Geelong
- I DO have family connections to Geelong
- Blogger's spell checker insists on replacing Geelong with Gee Long, which makes the place sound like a porn star
- The club's nickname is The Cats, though that kitty does look particularly ferocious.
- Geelong is a dump of a town to the south and west of Melbourne.*
Geelong is one of those thrusting regional centres that thinks throwing a few million tax payer dollars at a bright colour, chrome, steel, glass and modern art festooned Waterfront Development [yawn] is an adequate substitute for developing a sustainable economy.
That sort of sloppy thinking is all of a piece with having a Visit Geelong website continuing to promote the Christmas in July Black Tie Dinner as at the 30th September. Perhaps they haven't sold enough tickets yet?
* Oh, did I say that already?
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