The Blue Mountains

There's no place like a free bed.....

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December 20th 2006
After an overnight bus journey from Melbourne to Sydney on a bus on a par with the standard Ecuadorian offering (minus the Quechuan ladies naturally) we arrived at Sydney Central station sleepy and about ready to get into a shower and have a cup of tea, both of which I was fully expecting when we arrived at my Uncle Ray and Auntie Jane's house in North Sydney. A very friendly cabby zoomed us out a ... 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