Melbourne by night

G'day!

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May 21st 2009
G'day! I am now in Australia! Perhaps unsurprisingly it is a tad warmer than NZ was when we left. From Christchurch we had a relatively short hop across the Tasman to Melbourne, our first stop in convict land. We actually landed at normal sort of hour this time, 5pm. Crazy huh? Melbourne itself is really nice place. Despite being a city of over 4 million people it has a very liveable feel t ... 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