How can I best contact the UK while I'm away in Australia?

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ope1rsh

I now live in Australia, but last year my husband was in Australia and I was in the UK. These were the methods we used to keep in contact daily.

You can get a phonecard from any newsagents. For $10 you get about 500 minutes, each minute being 0.2 cents. You can use this to contact England at any time of the day (as there are no restrictions).

MSN - There are tons of internet cafes everywhere in the major cities - really cheap to use. So, you could always take a webcam and plug one into one of the internet cafes (some even have these set up). Or you could use instant messenger on MSN to type talk to each other.

Email - as I say, there are tons of internet cafes.

Oh, and don't forget snailmail. Its always lovely to receive a postcard or a letter.

Its usually cheaper for you to ring Oz to UK, rather than UK to Oz.

: - )

onewhosubmits

did you forget about letters?! you know thats how they used to do it.

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seems ya cant use your computer the good old fashioned way letters

Ships Ahoy

There are lots of types of phonecards you can buy. The best that I have tried is called a Daybreak Phone Card. They come in $10, 20 and $30. You can but them at 7/11, BP, Shell, Supermarkets and most cornerstores.

I call friends o/sea's and $30 can give me around 8 hours of talk time and there is no connection fee.

You will need to put a few coins in the public phone unless you have access to a landline in Australia.

Liz G

Purchase a phone card, they are so much cheaper so you will save heaps of money there.

The best one I found is the " Greek City" card. You can call the UK for 2.5cents per minute.

You can even buy the card on line or purchase anywhere really in Australia. Like newagency, 711 etc

Here is the link if you want to get it on line

http://www.telephonecards.com.au/Default.aspx?tabid=29&redz_phonecard_id=GCITY

Polo

Use Yahoo! Messenger, it's free.

g.m

the phone cards you get here from the post office you can buy there too !!! i think they are about $10 , best way (you can use any phone ) just dial the numbers on the card then the land line you want

tentofield

You will have access to a PC in Australia unless you are going to be far away from civilisation. If you are that far away, you will need a satellite telephone anyway. There are internet cafes everywhere. There is free access to the internet in every public library and in many other places as well

rose_merrick

messenger is free.

Bef

I would think email would be best. My bro went travellin round the world and was in oz for nearly 2 months. He was stayin in hostels and still managed to get access to a computer. He did phone every so often but email was the main form of contact.
good luck and have fun!

Skippy

Get your phone unlocked and buy a sim card over ther. My sim cost me $49 and I got all that as credit. I think texts home were 40 or 50 cents so it lasted me the 3 weeks I was there

Dicky Snapples Hides Apples

The phone cards are very cheap and you can use them on any phone, public or private. They're widely available.

TonyB

Phonecards.
Text msg.
email
Yahoo messenger
Landline phones

all cheap (or free) options.

champagne

Do you both have use of a pc ? I have family in sydney and i use skype talk.its free and its computer to computer,you just need a mic and headphones.You can set up webcam too and see each other.

hotteenick

You can get phonecards once your here and you can call the U.K for like 1 cent a minute. Very cheap!!!

You might want to consider communicating via email or VOIP aswell.

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