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Australia day one!!

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July 1st 2008
So the travel blog is back up and running! I arrived in Sydney yesterday after a long long time on planes and at airports which I survived by watching tiny screen movies and playing a million marathon games of tiny screen tetris...I stayed awake the whole time to avoid jetlag and survived on only plane food for over 24 hours! I couldn't quite believe I was here (and still can't actually!) when my ... 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