Our new home for the next month

Australia

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November 7th 2008
We had preordered a breakfast through room service the night before. It seemed like a good idea to eat before leaving to pick up the van, so that when we did our first food shop we wouldn’t go into the supermarket starving and spend a fortune. We’d carefully picked a filling but cheap breakfast of eggs on toast from the menu. When it arrived we took the lids of the plates to reveal a massive ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Blue Mountains

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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