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Day 66: Rooftop Cinemas and Chocky Frogs

December 19th 2009
Over breakfast this morning, we were gently warned, yet again, about the dangers of a chance encounter with a "saltie" (or salt-water crocodile; the Aussies love to abbreviate words: breakfast is "brekkie", chocolate "chocky", etc). Our warnings came courtesy of a lovely Aussie couple from the suburbs who had run away from their four children for the weekend to celebrate a birthday (the wife's) ... 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

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Adrian & Angelique

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We've decided to take off six months to see Asia and Australia and revisit New Zealand before we turn 40. Angelique's been to Asia once (Bhutan, a few days in Malaysia, only one in Singapore) and this will be Adrian's first time on the continent. Neither one of us has been to Australia but we did spend 3 weeks in New Zealand in 2007 and can't wait to return. If all goes well, our plan to is to spend a week in Japan, six weeks in southeast Asia, 2-3 in Australia and then 3 months in New Zealand, returning home to San Francisco in late March, 2010. Enjoy the blog!... full info

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