This entry was lost then recovered as same as the previous one - will fix back in UK!
June 7th 2007 Hello folks! It is day 3 for me downunder and it is absolutely pouring it down outside! It is their first wet day of the winter - typical it has coincided with my arrival!! I am wearing a jumper today as it is about 8 degrees, I hear you are having a bit of a heatwave back home. I must be the only person who can go to Australia and be met with worse weather than in England!
Going back a few da
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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 
