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Newcastle...with the ship on the beach!

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June 18th 2007
So today was another cursed day on the van front! We drove as far as the supermarket, only to have the van conk out! 3 hours and many phone calls later we eventually got towed- to the wrong garage!! Thankfully they agreed to diagnose the van tomorrow, but that left us abandoned in a random shopping complex, in the dark and the rain. I have never been so grateful to know someone who lives close by ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Newcastle

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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