St Mary's Cathedral

Visiting Sydney

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November 29th 2008
We have kept the car an extra day as we did not want to try to bring it back in Friday rush hour traffic, so we head off to downtown Sydney. It ends up costing a bit more than we counted on (thanks to gst being added on) but is still a fairly good deal and we covered a great deal of distance in the 10 days that we had it. Car less, we walk from the Kings Cross area down to the waterfront and get ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney » Sydney Harbour

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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