with Karen at Christmas lunch

Do they know it's Christmas time at all?

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December 25th 2005
Spent Christmas eve day feeling a bit homesick after Alf and his roommate Paul left and I had the apartment to myself. I walked around Cronulla and everyone was out with family and friends; I was the only person obviously by myself! 😞 Spent a lot of time debating on how much seeing the Great Barrier Reef is worth to me because I hadn't booked a flight yet and the plan was to leave on Monday ... 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