A nice old tropical house in Darwin

Darwin - Intensive social life and lots of doing nothing

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June 30th 2005
I mentioned before that I really missed seeing Israelis. Since Passover in Sydney I met only 5 Israelis in almost 2 months. I missed talking Hebrew, I missed some Israeli directness... Well since I arrived to Darwin I had plenty of that! And I enjoy it a lot. The first evening here - Friday, only just arriving, I hear "Anat, how are you???" I turn to see Hila, a girl I met in Wellington. We eve ... 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