Tag: australia
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November 23, 2009 01:58 AM EST --
Thinking of moving to Australia ? Find out what it's really like to live in Australia. What's good about Australia and what's bad. Find out about the climate, entertainment, places and where to live. . . .
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November 19, 2009 11:20 AM EST --
One Saturday afternoon in late September, Magi decided it would be fun to drive over to the University of Western Australia and take a tour. I was more then interested because not only Magi had . . .
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November 21, 2009 11:23 PM EST --
"On the edge of Western Australia’s Victoria Plains, where the undulating land of the Chittering Valley gives way to vast expanses of wheat and canola, travelers unfamiliar with the district are . . .
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November 18, 2009 08:08 AM EST --
When I was a little girl, my sisters and I couldn't wait for the Sears catalog to come to our house. Here was a bulky book filled with pages and pages of wonderful things. We would spend many . . .
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November 22, 2009 10:29 PM EST --
Last Monday I read with interest an article in the Associated Press that Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issued a historic apology to thousands of impoverished British children shipped to Australia after 1920 . . .
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November 28, 2008 10:10 PM EST --
Today is my daughter's 14th birthday. She wanted to see the movie Twilight with a friend. Hubby & I did not want to see that movie, so I picked Australia. We went to the matinee at 3:30 today~ . . .
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January 23, 2007 04:30 AM EST --
In 1770, during the reign of King George III, Captain James Cook sailed off in the bark Endeavour in order to discover new lands, to procure further wealth and prosperity for the British Empire and to . . .
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February 08, 2009 02:22 PM EST --
It's not nice to think about. Australia is of course in the southern hemisphere of planet Earth, so they are in mid-summer now. The temperatures this year are unbelievably hot, and there is no rain. . . .
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February 04, 2009 11:54 AM EST --
I have a wonderful friend in Australia. She shared a part of her world, down under.
It is too cute not to share with my friends.
Enjoy!
Sorry about the quality of . . .
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March 05, 2009 01:41 PM EST --
Tomorrow, I am leaving for a trip to Australia where I will attend a family reunion. There is so much emotion involved in this trip as, even though I have been back twice to visit, this will be the first . . .
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March 11, 2009 07:56 AM EDT --
Today brought a lovely tour of a place called Georgetown, and the gorgeous spot where the Low Head Lighthouse is located.
Though Sydney and Hobart were established before Georgetown they are now cities . . .
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March 11, 2009 07:13 PM EDT --
It was a delight to discover these tile mosaic panels embedded into the brick sidewalks in Georgetown.
Enjoy the stroll, and please forgive the odd angles on some of these. I was trying to keep my . . .
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March 19, 2009 08:42 AM EDT --
It has been a marvelous time here in Australia. I've had the opportunity to reconnect with much of my family, and spend some very special time with my two favorite uncles. Tomorrow, I will get on . . .
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March 24, 2009 07:09 PM EDT --
Though it doesn't really allow for artistry, many of the photos I took in Australia were from a moving car. Mostly I wanted to be sure I captured as much of the experience as possible to bring home . . .
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May 29, 2009 10:10 AM EDT --
During the past month, random attacks on Indian students in Australia have made news headlines. The inference was clearly that the attacks were racially motivated. One of the participants, G . . .
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June 06, 2009 04:40 PM EDT --
A woman gardening in Australia somehow had a leech attach itself to her eyeball. She went to the emergency room as she could not get the leech to release her eyeball. By the time she had reached . . .
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September 15, 2009 08:10 AM EDT --
Imagine living in a tropical Paradise for a week...that's what it was like staying with Carolyn in Redcliffe, a small suburb of Brisbane on Moreton Bay. I loved the old Colonial homes with big porches . . .
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September 25, 2009 08:32 PM EDT --
A prime attraction in Fremantle is the Market. Housed in an old warehouse, the market was opened in 1893. Today it draws huge crowds looking for everything from craft items to vegetables, . . .
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October 07, 2009 09:46 PM EDT --
Beginning each spring in Western Australia's Stirling Range, a fabulous carpet of wildflowers unrolls, including types found nowhere else on earth. July to October is peak flowering season. With . . .
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February 26, 2008 01:10 AM EST --
Most Americans, if they think of Australia at all, vaguely recall it as that land 'down under' - where everything is upside down. They celebrate Christmas in summer, for Pete's sake. . . .
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