Janet at Conservatory

April 4 – Beginning our Melbourne Tours

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April 4th 2014
<pre style="text-align: justify;">Today we start the final phase (last several days) of our vacation. We are in Melbourne Australia and we have several more excursions planned, thanks to the tremendous help of Kelly Hoban, Travel Consultant from Qantas Vacations in California. Back in early February, Kelly was instrumental in finding and scheduling tours that addressed everything we wanted ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne » 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