View from Eureka Skydeck III

National Gallery of Victoria (with the Eiffelturm-like metal construction on top) in the foreground and the tennis courts and stadium on the other side of the Yarra River.

In Australia Again, Part 4: Melbourne

January 20th 2016
You might recall that before our trip down Great Ocean Road and to Mornington Peninsula Mizzi and I had one evening and one day in Melbourne. So when I arrived in the city on a Friday in the late afternoon Mizzi came to pick me up from the train station. She lives not far from Flinders Street Station in the Southbank, just a ten minute walk or two stops by tram from Fliders Square. We dropped off ... 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

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