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Ballarat

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August 17th 2007
I've just returned from a week in Ballarat. The town is about an hour and a half drive from Melbourne. I stayed in a "serviced apartment" which seems to be really popular here. I didn't have any internet access so that's why you haven't heard from me. They don't have many hotel chains. No one has heard of "Hampton Inn" and I think there are only 9 Hiltons in the whole country. Hostels and ap ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Ballarat

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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