Paddys Day

Melbourne

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March 20th 2010
Christine and Simon are flying in from Ireland to join us in their own little rented campervan and we plan to travel to Sydney together but first we had a few days in Melbourne to ourselves. Melbourne is by far the biggest city we have been in in months and navigating its roads and highways took a bit of getting used to. We made our way to St Kilda where it seems all the backpackers migrate to. As ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne

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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