The green leafy hills of south NSW

Sydney to Melbourne and back

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January 28th 2006
January 28th 2006 - Over 4 months after arriving in Sydney - I was finally going to escape the place albeit for just a week to go on a road trip from Sydney to Melbourne and back. This time I was going to go with my two friends Mandy and George in a camper van which seemed like the typical backpacker thing to do in Australia. After my usual incessent planning, stressing, worrying we finally go ... 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