powerhouse museum

sydney continued and blue mountains 12-19/12

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December 18th 2008
Woke up to a rainy day (felt like we were back in England), so we decided to go to the powerhouse museum. It was quite cool. There was a working model of the strassburg clock which a lady did a talk on and showed us how it worked. There was also a space station that had an antigravity simulator in too. At night time we went round to heathers house and she cooked lasagne and garlic bread (exactly ... 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