As so often in Australia’s history, Melbourne was founded through fraud when adventurer John Batman, an Australian who spoke in several aboriginal dialects, made a “deal” with aborigines to lease land on behalf of investors.
While offering the Aborigines any compensation at all was progressive in a colonial culture that preferred to simply run them [...]
After climbing 508 metres up the Taipei 101 tower, the highest structure in the world, it can be seen easily from anywhere in the city, one can look down on the genuine Taipei amidst all the modern buildings: temples, markets, the National Palace Museum and in between them, the many old streets and lanes where [...]
The Lithuanian city of Vilnius radiates southern charm under the northern sun. Positioned in the natural amphitheatre of the surrounding Lithuanian hills, Vilnilus has a lot to offer Australian tourists interested in classical buildings.
Vilnius, which can look back on a thousand years of Lithuanian history, boasts one of the largest historical town centres in Eastern [...]
Located in the centre of Europe, Vienna is both a lively modern metropolis and a destination known for its coffee houses, historic districts, lovely parks, elegant squares and romantic courtyards.
Vienna means cafe culture, music and wine. Where else can one so happily spend all day sitting in a cafe, reading the newspaper, sipping a [...]
Thailand is a kingdom in southeast Asia on the Indochinese and Malay peninsulas. Through most of its history Thailand was called Siam. The people call themselves Thai, which in their language means “the free people.” In 1948 the Thai government changed the name of the country to Thailand.
Thailand has an area of about 511,770 square [...]
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