Two Australian Icons - other than Dianne & Peter

Prologue

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April 10th 2009
And so we begin a holiday that was not just planned from when we arrived home from our last long trip 2 years ago (Spain / Portugal / England in 2007) which is our usual practice - return home from one trip with the next one already being planned - but was hatched out of our journey to Barcelona and Paris 4 years ago. While Dianne was enamoured with Paris I always felt overwhelmed both by its sca ... 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