Freemantle sunset

Australia - West Coast

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March 19th 2008
After a taster of things of things to come in Singapore, our next stop on the trip was the financially crippling Australia. No more Thai curries and a beer for £2. Nope, now we are back to western prices which inevietably means, God forbid, that we may even have to cook our own dinners and even worse - drink beer before we go out. It's be like our student days relived. As seems to be the common t ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia

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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