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A day in Melbourne...

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December 27th 2008
I arrived in Melbourne last week and went straight to Amy's parents' house, but more about that later...the next day it was back to Melbourne. I was pretty freaked out to be in a city...apart from my one night in Brisbane the last city I was in was Sydney, 5 1/2 months ago!! (No, Cairns is not a city!) So I didn't really appreciate it as much as I could have done...although I had the best hot choc ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne » CBD

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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