The Harbour Bridge

Storms in Sydney!

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June 11th 2007
The long awaited good nights sleep that we were both looking forward to was going to have to wait one more night... after dropping off Sheila we checked into a hostel close to Chinatown in the centre of Sydney. We dumped our backpacks and collapsed onto our new bed only to discover that it was about an inch thick and landed with a thump onto the bed springs beneath! We put up with the bed for one ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more