The acquisition of Viv the Vauxhall Viva enabled not only travel beyond local shops or city centre, but also allowed the new migrants to embrace that sacrosanct Australian tradition, "the good weekend." The first question Anna was asked at work on a Monday morning was, "Did you have a good weekend?" the words slurred together into a string of barely comprehensible syllables. Without exception, her colleagues lived for the weekend, spending Friday morning tea break and lunchtime discussing what they had planned and Monday"s breaks relating what they had accomplished. There appeared to be various categories of good weekend, with sport – watching it, mainly – being number one and visits to the coast coming a close second. “Coast”, Anna soon learnt, was a general term applied to both the Gold
