Australia

Sydney with its spectacular harbour, beaches and coastline boasts a large number of outdoor swimming pools built and designed into the coastline.

When the First Fleet of a British convicts and sailors landed in Sydney Cove in 1788 they had in fact discovered what many would later agree was the world’s most spectacular harbour.

Henry Lawson was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia’s “greatest short story writer”.