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29

Adelaide Sightseeing Guide

February 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment

St Peter’s Cathedral, Adelaide. Image Courtesy Wikipedia
A Brief History
The first recorded sighting of the South Australian coast was in 1627 by the Dutchman Francois Thijssen, captain of the ship Golden Zeepaert. However, it was not until 1802 that Matthew Flinders and Nicolas Baudin first surveyed the coast. The British Parliament passed the South Australian [...]

Feb

26

Thomas Cook

February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Thomas Cook is one of the world’s best-known brandsd in international travel, largely thanks to the innovation and dedication of a single person. Thomas Cook began his international travel company in 1841, with a successful one-day rail excursion at a shilling a head from Leicester to Loughborough. From these humble beginnings Thomas Cook launched a [...]

Feb

19

Melbourne Travel & Sightseeing Guide

February 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment

View of the Melbourne CBD from The Shrine of Remembrance
With an area of 227,000 square kilometres Victoria is Australia’s smallest mainland state in area but with 5 million people (25% of total Australia) it is the second most populated. It is about the same size in area as England, Scotland and Wales and is slightly [...]

Feb

12

Nuremberg Travel Guide

February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Nuremberg is in Germany’s southern province of Bavaria about 120km north of Munich. While immediately known for its role in book ending the rise and fall of the Nazi regime, the former with the party’s mass rallies and the latter with the war crimes trials after the war, it offers the visitor much more. An [...]