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Christmas in Sydney

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December 23rd 2007
In my last post I was in St. Kilda, which is not a nice place despite initial appearances. It is full of hobos, tramps or vagrants, whatever term you prefer. We moved on fairly swiftly and decided to get a head start on our Great Ocean Road trip. We drove out of Melbourne to a place called Geelong, which marks the start of the Great Ocean Rd from Melbourne way. It worked as a good stopover for ... read more

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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