View from Clock tower

Brisbane day 1

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April 7th 2007
Got going straight away this morning, knowing tomorrow was Easter Sunday and hense like Good Friday Brisbane would decend into ghost town mode. So today was going to be the only day in which I could do stuff. Caught the mini bus into town. It was a scorcher of a day and when I was dropped off, for some reason, depite being armed with my Lonely planet it took me ages to get my bearings. Once ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Brisbane

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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