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A Weekend in Canberra

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January 8th 2008
It was an 8 and a half hour coach trip from Melbourne to Canberra which wasn't too bad as we slept most of the way. We were up at the lovely time of 5:30 and said our goodbyes to Simone and Guiseppe who were nice enough to get up and see us off. We were almost at Canberra and the driver pulled the bus over into a layby and announced that we had a puncture! He spent a while trying to undo the whee ... 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