Melbourne

Day 1 - Departure

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June 13th 2008
Depart Melbourne for Sydney at 7am so it's an early start on a rainy Melbourne Friday morning. Hope for better weather where we are headed but who knows with the variable northern summer! Though I would get started with a nice latte as I fear that the thing I may miss most about Melbourne is the coffee. I'm not sure how regular this blog will be updated with internet access on the move but I'll do ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne

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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