Category Archives: Australia

Postcard from Australia – Armidale: Bona Vista

This lovely old house has been built in several stages starting with the central part in the 1880s. The colour of the bricks is always a clue to the construction date. The beautiful garden laid out in front is still magnificent. It has had several owners including a mail contractor who built the stables below …

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Postcard from Australia – A House in Armidale

Armidale on the New England Tableland, is a lovely university town of 20,000 people where constructions cannot be more than 2 stories high (ground + 2). This is a newly constructed house in a beautiful wooded setting that blends in perfectly with the rest of the local architecture. Armidale, qui se trouve sur le plâteau …

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Postcard from Australia – Cockatoo Island

Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour was proclaimed a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2010 . It was a convict penal settlement from 1839 to 1869 and one of Austalia’s biggest shipyards, operating between 1857 and 1991 with the first of its two dry docks built by convicts. L’île de Cockatoo dans la baie de Sydney …

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Postcard from Australia: Gulls in a row – Mouettes en ligne

Our first few days in Sydney have been busy catching up with family and friends but today we played the tourists and walked from The Rocks to the Opera House and up into the Domain. Feels good to be in one of the world’s most beautiful cities. Nos premiers jours à Sydney se sont passés …

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