Skippy and friend

Australia

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November 8th 2005
We got to Sydney and stayed at a hostel called Billabong Gardens in an area called Newtown, which we picked at random. The hostel was OK except that of the two members of staff, one seemed to be stoned most of the time and the other was a bit nasty. The neighborhood turned out to be near the university, so it had lots of relatively inexpensive places to eat and was on the main bus lines into the ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney

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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