Our impromptu candle-lit dinner

It's not a Katoomba!

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May 16th 2011
This title should of course be read in the style of everybody's favorite former bodybuilder/actor/politician/future cartoon robot in the classic Kindergarten Cop (it's the Dr. Zhivago of my generation, which is why my generation is a train wreck). When I started writing this entry, it was meant to be the penultimate entry in our Sydney blog. Things got hectic, however, and time disappea ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Blue Mountains

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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