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First weekend in Newcastle

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January 10th 2010
It's green, sunny and warm everywhere! The flight to Sydney was uneventful. Knowing it was going to be a long flight and not wanting to be stuck clock watching, I deliberately did not calculate ahead of time the number of hours I would have to be confined to a small airplane seat. I split the long hours between naps, eating, playing sudoku, and watching a chick flick (which I'm bl ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Newcastle

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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