Darling Harbour at sunset

Parramatta, Pancakes, Chinese New Year and Twenty20 Cricket

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February 25th 2010
Parramatta, Pancakes, Chinese New Year and Twenty20 Cricket - February 2010 One afternoon after we both had finished work we went to Parramatta a city 24km west of Sydney. Parramatta is set on a river and holds many stories of Sydney’s colonial past and is also home to New South Wales largest shopping mall. We decided to give shopping a miss and instead walked along the river and through the ... 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