Postcard

Mrs P's parents have been on an extended holiday to Australia since late September. During stays with family they've had access to email, and every week or so they relay what they've been up to. However, the email is a bit of a cheat when it comes to holiday correspondence - they look the same wherever they are sent from.

What is required is a pictorial representation of the country or area that the tourist is staying in. The picture should say "Look how beautiful it is where we are. We know that you are having cold, wet weather, so look at the blue skies and sun-licked world famous sights and imagine for a couple of seconds that you are somewhere else". Hence the invention of the pictoral postcard in ages of yore.

Today we received a postcard from Mrs Ps parents. It was slightly disappointing, thus:



The postcard fails on a number of counts.

1. It could be from anywhere - if I was to hazard a guess I would have said Beaulieu in Hampshire or one of those rubbishy theme parks that is used to advertise Westcountry weather.
2. It hardly shows off Australia - Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Opera House, Ayres Rock, etc. etc. No. The back end of some cars at a Car Museum.
3. It's inside. Therefore, I feel no jealousy over the weather - it looks like the kind of thing that I would have ended up doing with my family on a typical British summer's day in the early/mid-90s.
4. It's not even a good picture of some cars.

On the postcard Mrs Ps mum states "Lovely scenery" and "Weather is sunny and warm", and that the "car museum was empty wherever we go."