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Another eventful day & my last travel blog from Down Under!

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August 22nd 2007
Well I spent all day Monday resting my ankle, which was very swollen & badly bruised. Was raging because I had planned to see and do so much. An girl from Sligo called Siun came into my room on Sunday night and it turns out she's on the same flights home as me. So yesterday we both got up really early to try to book onto a Blue Mountains tour. The early morning one was booked out so we ended up bo ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Blue Mountains

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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