Tim Sweeney

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Tim Sweeney

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Tim Sweeney is the author of Yank Down Under: A Drink and A Look Around Australia, a humorous travel memoir that recounts his adventures (and misadventures) during 3 years of living in Australia. His writing is laced with dry humor and witty observations about the places and people he encounters in his travels, and often with a hilarious and healthy dose of self-deprecation. Readers of Yank Down Under compare his writing style to Bill Bryson, but "with a looser tongue." Tim began his career as a newspaper journalist in Colorado, where he won the award for Best Column Writing from the Colorado Press Association at the age of twenty-three. He's written for a number of magazines including Skiing, SKI, Powder, Pebble Beach, Palm Desert, and Pal ...more

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Book Excerpt: Melbourne Spring Carnival

The following is an excerpt from the Melbourne chapter of my new book, Yank Down Under: A Drink and a Look Around Australia.

The dapperly attired young man in the queue ahead of me is in a sparring match with the ticket vending machine that I am waiting to use here at Flinders Street Station in Melbourne. I’m not sure what the problem is. I’ve bought my train tickets here before and it never felt

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Published on July 02, 2023 06:46

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