melbourne!!

melbourne, the great ocean road and sydney

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January 11th 2007
ok so after we arrived in melbourne, to some pretty muggy/ hot weather we checked in to our first hostel which was located in the centre of the CBD, in melbourne. it was our first real taste of a hostel as all of thailand had been guest houses. we were in a 8 bed shared dorm but the best thing about the place had to be the fact that it had hot showers, we had spent the last two day on gruelling b ... 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