New Year

Festive Season in Melbourne and into the Year of Smiles!! 2007.

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December 25th 2006
Melbourne Sunday 24th December 2006 to Monday 1st January 2007 Festivities started on Christmas Eve with a few glasses of bubbly and a night out at the Evelyn to see Martin Martini and the Bone Orchestra - what a great start! The band is crazy and the support act was brill - with violin, trombone, saxaphone and cello (I think or is it a double bass!??!) and even a christmas carol or two song ... 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