Some building in Sydney

Sydney, Twinned with Portsmouth

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August 19th 2008
Within about 10 minutes of landing in Sydney, a random Aussie guy had heard our English accents and begun berating us about the state of the English cricket team. "When are you gonna bloody beat us, eh?"... and so forth. He was otherwise quite a nice chap, and I hadn't the heart to tell him that I care less about the state of national cricket than your average 14th Century Mongolian peasant care ... 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