Janet outside Opera House

April 1 –Sydney Opera House

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April 1st 2014
Today is “April Fool’s Day”, but this is no joke – we went to tour the Sydney Opera House today. After today we have a fairly energetic schedule remaining, so we chose to sleep in to keep our agenda today fairly straight forward without too many extra side-trips. So we did not get up until about 8:30. We then went down to the Concierge and found out how to use the local transit service ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney » Opera House

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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