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Albury-Wodonga, Australia
Albury-Wodonga is a twin city straddling the Murray River border of the two south-eastern Australian states of New South Wales and Victoria. Albury is the city on the New South Wales bank of the river, Wodonga the Victorian city on the southern bank. For all practical purposes related to travel, the two cities are one. The cities are a gateway to the gourmet area surrounding Beechworth, the mountain town of Bright and the Rutherglen winery area. They also make a good stopping-off point on the drive between Melbourne and Sydney.
Whilst in many senses Albury-Wodonga operates as a single community (sometimes to the dismay of residents), the twin cities possess parallel municipal governments and state government services. The closer proximity of Melbourne and the local predominance of Australian Rules Football perhaps give Albury a closer cultural affiliation with Victoria. Grand plans were made by the government 30 years ago to turn Albury-Wodonga into a major inland city and the cities have grown rapidly from sleepy country towns to major regional centres.
The Wiradjuri people were probably the tribe of indigenous Australians resident immediately before the advent of Europeans in the area in the 1820s-1830s. European settlement was first gazetted at this popular river crossing in 1839 and after a decade a small settlement was well established. 1851 saw the separation of Victoria from New South Wales as a separate colony with the Murray marking much of the border, and Albury and Wodonga developed as a border town, with customs points between a protectionist Victoria and a free trade favouring New South Wales.
A permanent bridge was built over the Murray river in 1860, with horse drawn coach connections running between the train stations in Wodonga and New South Wales, each running trains on different railway gauges. Even after the rail bridge was built, trains from Victoria ran to Albury, and trains from New South Wales ran to Wodonga, as the governments could not agree on a common interchange station. Albury eventually emerged as the choice for interchange, but the railway gauges remained incompatible until the 1960s when the standard gauge track was laid to Melbourne allowing the first trains to run from Sydney to Melbourne without a change in Albury. The size of Albury station still reflects this heritage.
Albury was also the focus of attempts to open up the inland trade along the Murray, with paddlesteamers seen as a technology that would open up large tracts of farmland to the market. Although strongly supported by the South Australian government the paddlesteamers were never really a financial success, but the wharves and paddlesteamers in Albury today are at least a tribute to the tenacity of the steamer pioneers.
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Albury Pictorial
Albury is located in New South Wales, Australia. All photos were taken by John Boom and are being presented by Australian Pictorials: australianpictorials.com
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The Hume Highway, inclusive of the sections now known as the Hume Freeway and Hume Motorway, is one of Australia's major inter-city highways, running for 807 kilometres between Melbourne and Sydney. top attractions are
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Pitt St is famous for being home to the Pitt St Mall pedestrian area, which lies between Market and King streets.
Pitt St Mall is the most expensive street in Australia and 7th most expensive street in the world.
Australia's biggest retailer, Westfield is constructing a shopping centre on Pitt St Mall, a first of its kind in an Australian CBD.
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The street is one way (Northbound only) from Railway Square to Pitt Street Mall and (Southbound Only) from Circular Quay to Pitt Street Mall.
It runs through the entire city centre from Circular Quay in the north to Redfern south, although a substantial stretch of it was removed when the Sydney Central railway station was built. It has many different shops, especially along the Pitt Street Mall, as well as various residential and office buildings.
Marulan is a town in the Southern Tablelands region of New South Wales, Australia near Goulburn in Goulburn Mulwaree Council.
It lies close to the Hume Highway, which used to run through the town until the highway bypassed the town. Marulan lies on the 150 meridian.
It has a station on CityRail's Southern Highlands line. Marulan was previously known as Mooroowoolen.
The term spa is associated with water treatment which is also known as balneotherapy.
Spa towns or spa resorts (including hot springs resorts) typically offer thermal or mineral water for drinking and bathing.
They also offer various health treatments.
The belief in the curative powers of mineral waters goes back to prehistoric times. Such practices have been popular world-wide, but are especially wide-spread in Europe and Japan.
Day spas are also quite popular, and offer various personal care treatments.
By the beginning of the 19th century the European bathing regimen consisted of numerous accumulated traditions. The bathing routine included soaking in hot water, drinking the water, steaming in a vapor room, and relaxing in a cooling room.
In addition doctors ordered that patients be douched with hot or cold water and given a select diet to promote a cure.
Authors began writing guidebooks to the health resorts of Europe explaining the medical benefits and social amenities of each. Rich Europeans and Americans traveled to these resorts to take in cultural activities and the baths.
Each European spa began offering similar cures while maintaining a certain amount of individuality. The 19th century bathing regimen at Karlsbad can serve as a general portrayal of European bathing practices during this century.
Visitors arose at 6:00 AM to drink the water and be serenaded by a band. Next came a light breakfast, bath, and lunch.
The doctors at Karlsbad usually limited patients to certain foods for each meal. In the afternoon visitors went sight-seeing or attended concerts.
Nightly theatrical performances followed the evening meal. This ended around 9:00 PM with the patients returning to their boardinghouses to sleep until six the next morning. This regimen continued for as long as a month and then the patients returned home until the next year.
Other 19th century European spa regimens followed similar schedules.
At the beginning of the 20th century, European spas combined a strict diet and exercise regimen with a complex bathing procedure to achieve benefits for the patients. One example will suffice to illustrate the change in bathing procedures.
Patients at Baden-Baden, which specialized in treating rheumatoid arthritis, were directed to see a doctor before taking the baths. Once this occurred the bathers proceeded to the main bathhouse where they paid for their baths and stored their valuables before being assigned a booth for undressing.
The bathhouse supplied bathers with towels, sheets, and slipper
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Dangerous Driving Wagga Australia
Vehicle NSW Redg NO-CH-76 JN forcing vehicles off the road after overtaking a Heavy Vehicle and two cars in line on Sturt Highway on Thursday 5 October 2017
Steam train at Albury station. March 2014