Room with a View

Notes from a BIG Island

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November 29th 2007
Well, sorry it’s been a while - amazing how much time life actually takes up! We’re finally adopting the 21st century in the flat (i.e. we’re online, at last) so now there’s no real excuses left for not keeping up this diatribe of our lives. Having sold our souls to the corporate gods of banking & publishing, which accounts for the drudgery of 8am to 7pm Monday to Friday, and finally fi ... 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