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		<title>Australia: Far North Queensland</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As my blessed mother would say “it happens in the best of homes” when something went wrong.  She certainly did not have a complete computer crash – and an external hard drive back-up! - in mind, but that is what I had to contend with, at the end of my trip to Australia.  I won’t [...]


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		<title>Australia: Delights of &#8220;the Hunter&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 03:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The northern Hemisphere is getting ready for the golden colors of Autumn, but in Australia, Spring is being welcomed with open arms.  So, too, at the Hunter Valley Gardens.  This 25 ha. (60 acre) privately owned, themed garden was created from scratch in 1998 and opened to the public in 2003.  By far the most [...]


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		<title>Australia: Paronella Park &#8211; a Spaniard&#8217;s dream</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hearing of my Spanish (well, Argentine) roots, my friends decided that I must see how one Spaniard fulfilled his dream... Off we drove away from Innisfail, Queensland, through a landscape of alternating banana and sugar cane plantations.  I commented on the many small railway tracks we were crossing:  these are for the sugar cane trains [...]


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		<title>Australia: The magic of the Great Barrier Reef</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I dutifully booked an excursion to the Great Barrier Reef from Cairns, I did so more out of a sense of duty of having to visit this one of Australia’s most iconic destinations.  I owed it to myself, I said, since I am in FNQ – Far Northern Queensland – as the locals call [...]


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		<title>Australia: Daylesford and Hepburn Springs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, I didn’t find any alluvial gold in Daylesford, an easy two-hour drive north-west of Melbourne.  Unfortunately, the days of panning the river bed for gold are over.  But back in the 1850s, it was gold that made this small city rich, along with a host of others along the so-called Goldfields Touring Route (Ballarat, [...]


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		<title>Sydney:  Museums</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being a museum mouse, I do try to visit at least a few representative ones in each city.  In Sydney, it has been the Museum of Contemporary Art, centrally located right next door to Circular Quay, in the building from 1952 formerly occupied by the Maritime Services Board. The MCA came into existence in 1991 [...]


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		<title>Sydney: Views at every turn</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 07:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the risk of stating the obvious, Sydney really is a beautiful city.  Wherever you turn, a panoramic view opens – of the harbour, a cove, a bay, an inlet, a beach, a bridge, a point, a head, a park, a dip, a summit feature, etc. etc. And from very many places –  a glimpse [...]


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