china town

Home in the Sunshine State

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August 15th 2008
Arriving in Brisbane along a motorway on the river, this was an innovative modern city, a young city that had studied hard and built with diversity, we exited the bus on top of the transport centre. A strange sense of home came to me, this could have gone either way, Brisbane was our stopping point, our working city and when we stepped of the bus I just felt right. So organised it didn’t take ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Brisbane

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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