Melbourne From The Balcony

Melbourne

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February 10th 2010
So everybody told me that I would love Melbourne. Everybody was right. My first impression as I walked out of airport and into Victoria was that this is nothing like Sydney. The air is hot and dry, the grass is not so green and the plants and trees that line the highway are unlike that of Sydney. Also the cars on the highway seemed to be consistently larger then that of the New South Wales highway ... 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