Blue Mountains

Sydney

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December 11th 2007
Arrived in Sydney early on the 11th and checked into our 28-bed dorm room, and, like most people in the room, promptly fell asleep. Met up with Laura in the afternoon and went out for a meal and pub quiz in a place nearby. It being an Australian based pub we were well and truly beaten by all the other teams (except on Neighbours and Crocodile Dundee questions), but at least got some free beer by w ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney

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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