When I was younger, to while away the hours, a few friends and I dug holes in the ground to see how deep we could go, well I was totally convinced that one day if we dug deep enough (like, just a couple of feet!!), that we would dig right through to Australia, imagine my disappointment when I realised that was never going to happen, by the way, I'm going to Australia next year, by......PLANE hahaha ( do you think someone in Australia might have thought the same thing and think they could dig through to Britain??) I wonder....
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- WHen I was a kid i used to believe you could dig to Australia— Chie
- i used to think that Australia was the whole world.— Trish
- i used to think that bethleham was in australia, like just out in the desert somewhere— joanna
- I was sure that Adelaide (where I lived) was the capital of Australia because they both started with
"A"— fiona - I used to believe New Zealand and Australia were part of the UK because they have a UK flag on their flags — H
- Since my father had a deep cleft in his chin, I thought he was growing a tiny buttocks out of his face.— Rick