Artefacts in the cellar

Hero of Waterloo

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January 12th 2012
It was the last night in Sydney for a couple of friends of Charles and Jo, so we went along to farewell drinks at the Hero of Waterloo in The Rocks. This is a pub that had been mentioned to us by the tour guide on the free walking tour we went on a few months ago, so we’d been keen to check this one out for a while. The legend is that the sailors who would come drinking at the pub would be trea ... 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