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A baby koala has a snooze

April 3rd 2010
I was hoping it would be second time lucky when I went to collect my hire car. And it was, so Alex and I drove Zak (a Hyundai Getz in a very fetching shade of blue) out of Sydney city centre (out first turn was, of course, wrong) via Harbour Bridge - which is actually the country's busiest road. Alex's chronic inability to read maps blew us slightly off course (joking Honky... it wasn't all your f ... 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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Jonathan Smith

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I work as a town planner in London, and have always enjoyed travelling. I also love photography, and in June 2009 I decided to take a year off work to travel the globe. This blog recounts that trip. I left London on the 14th June 2009. My trip divided roughly into four legs. The first is in Africa, from Kenya to South Africa, starting in June and finishing at the end of September. I then flew to Mumbai, for a three month trip through Central Asia taking in India, Nepal and Tibet. Next up was Southeast Asia, where I travelled through Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Malaysia, arriving in Sin... full info

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