Cessnock

Christmas in Oz!!

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December 27th 2005
So that was Christmas 2006. What a different experience it was from 2005 with my family in Finland! The last time I wrote was in Canberra - it seems so long ago! Canberra turned out to be a great place, mainly due to the people I met at the hostel after Lucia and Pablo made their way over to Perth! The dorm was full the next night, with a very international crowd of fellow backpackers! We made sur ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Newcastle

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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