About 30 km westof Adelaide is the small town of Hahndorf which was established by German immigrants in 1839. These Germans came from Prussia which is now part of Poland.This pleasant town in the Adelaide Hills made a great place to start off the day with a good cup of coffee on our way out of the city. It promised to be a hot day. By the time we reached Bordertown, (aptly named as it is close to the borders of South Australia and Victoria), the temperature ha...

Modern Australia is a young country; there are no old cities like you have in Europe. The word "old" refers to anything over one hundred years old. The first settlers came to Australia in the late 1700's. Sydney and Melbourne were mere settlements. There was a lot of rivalry between these two cities about which one was to become the capital of Australia. In the end it was decided to design a new city and place it somewhere in between. The planned city had similar...