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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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	Yank Down Under: A Drink and A Look Around Australia 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Texts That Sell: How Modern Text Strategies Can Revolutionize Sales Engagement in Automotive Retail by Penny Vettel-Diersing, Tim Sweeney (Goodreads Author), Michael Meiners 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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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