Cathedral

The City of Melbourne... My first experience of Australia

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November 7th 2012
So after a very tiring three flights to Australia stopping off in Dubai and Brunei I made it to Melbourne at about 10pm local time. luckily I hadnt slept a lot on my journey and slept well on my first night so I thought I'd tricked my body and avoided the jet lag but after a couple of days waking up at 6am maybe I was wrong! Melbourne is a nice city but as cities aren't really my thing, ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne

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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