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nandad Mon 30-Jan-23 12:50:09

We will be going to Australia as the last stop of a trip and will be meeting up with some friends who live there, who we haven’t seen for 30+ years. They emigrated from the UK 40 years ago and have never been back.
Any suggestions for a lightweight and non-bulky present we can take them please?

dragonfly46 Mon 30-Jan-23 12:55:23

I would take them out for a meal when you got there. Alternatively you could ask them what they miss most that they cannot buy over there.

Sago Mon 30-Jan-23 13:04:16

Tea from Betty’s

Visgir1 Mon 30-Jan-23 13:17:48

Unframed local picture?

Mgmgmg Tue 31-Jan-23 08:42:30

You will be unable to take any foodstuff as Australia has very strict rules and it is prohibited to take any foodstuff at all into the country with large fines in place.

JackyB Tue 31-Jan-23 10:00:56

A fun British souvenir, but something useful. Plenty of this sort of thing at airport shops, such as teatowels, oven gloves, cushions, pencils. If edibles are out of the question, maybe a small cookery book to remind them of typical British dishes they may have forgotten.

If they lived in the same town as you, a local souvenir of a similar kind.

For a more personal idea, put together a photo album of the places they used to frequent so that they can see what they are like now.

Callistemon21 Tue 31-Jan-23 11:00:02

Mgmgmg

You will be unable to take any foodstuff as Australia has very strict rules and it is prohibited to take any foodstuff at all into the country with large fines in place.

You can take certain edibles but packaged and unopened.

You can't take wooden items generally although I have done and declared them at Customs. They were allowed through.

Is there anything they miss from home? Probably not, though, as they've never been back.

Callistemon21 Tue 31-Jan-23 11:02:18

Visgir1

Unframed local picture?

That's a good idea, particularly as you'll be travelling round before you meet up.
It could be rolled and put into a tube.

You could get it framed there.