Louise in the desert at Nambung National Park, Western Australia

The kindness of strangers

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June 9th 2009
Lou: First of all, we've had a bit of a change of plans (again!) A few things all happened at once - the place we were supposed to be staying for free whilst we looked for work in Melbourne fell through, some good friends went to China and kept emailing us about how amazing and cheap it was, and we made some new friends who had traveled round India and were telling us how amazing and cheap that ... read more

Oceania » Australia

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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