Retirement house

Anti-Valentine’s day in a retirement home – Barhopping with couchsurfers.

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February 15th 2012
Saturday 15th of February I was invited for lunch to Felipe Kovacic’s house in Chatswood. He’s a retired navy officer who I met briefly in the Chilean Naval School. He’s been living in Sydney for some time now, with his French wife Isa and their 11 month son, Bruno. Turns out, both our fathers were classmates at the Mackay British School in Chile, small world again. Besides me, they inv ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney » 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