Surfers Paradise

Australia 2013 - Friday 22 March to Wednesday 27 March

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March 28th 2013
The previous two entries may have been published the wrong way round, but this is the last Australian blog. We arrived in Brisbane on Friday, and stayed in the centre, near Roma St station. On Saturday we took a train from Brisbane along the Gold Coast to Robina, and from there took a bus to Surfers Paradise. A lot of high rise buildings, very busy, but it's the surf that everyone is here f ... 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