SYdney Opera House

Sydney

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January 29th 2009
(Apologies to all Australians for the following blog....) Thankfully I managed to change my flight at Hong Kong and avoided a torturous 17 hour stop-over. I arrived in Sydney with only an hour of sleep under my belt and no place to stay as I was a night early. After a few calls I found a bed and caught the train to Central and flopped into bed 30 minutes later. I changed hostel at lunchti ... read more

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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