Central Sydney

SYDNEY!!

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March 13th 2010
We really liked Sydney and stayed 4 nights here as our final destination in Australia. In fact Amy liked it so much she rated it as her favourite place on the whole trip so far - so it was good timing that she had her 23rd birthday there. We stayed in 'Kings Cross', slightly to the east of the city, and supposedly the red light district of Sydney. But we only saw two or three 'suspicious charac ... read more

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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