Lampshades in Street

Sydney, Australia

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November 14th 2012
Tuesday - 13 November - Today I arrived in Sydney and excitedly boarded the train to central Sydney. It's crude but the first thing i wanted to do upon reaching my hotel in Surrey Hills, was go to the toilet and what a joy to enter the cubicle NOT to be greeted by a bin full of used toilet paper!!! John Warrington and Thomas Crapper would have been proud to see their flushing toilet systems i ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney

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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