The warm up

Lardy R at Mardi Gras

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March 4th 2006
Funny how I was supposed to be home working back at Smarts several weeks ago, and yet I'm still here in Oz, having done no travel, casually allowing my plans to grow and the trip to extend, month by month. But sacre blur, how could I even have thought to come to Sydney and leave just before Mardi Gras, one of the biggest events in the Galendar, (for the uninitiated...to turn anything gay, just ... 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