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Cessnock
Travel Blogs from Cessnock, Australia
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Lower Hunter Valley
This is a top pick! Unable to sleep due to the excitement of free alcohol (I still class myself as a student!) we were on the road at 6am heading to one of the most famous wine regions in the world. After arriving at the visitors centre we found the organised wine ...
Lorna is home
This is a top pick! ... today. We had a long journey to the Hunter Valley today. We are stopping at Valley Vineyard Tourist Park in a town called Cessnock. It's a really nice park with two good pools. Can't believe this is our last stop before Sydney, it's gone so quick!! ...
Wibbly Wobbly Wonky Wine Tour on our Bikes!!!
This is a top pick! Today was a brilliant day. It was the Vickers on wibbly wobbly wonky wine tour - on our bikes!! There are a few tours you can pay to do round the Hunter Valley but we thought bugger it, and hired two bikes to do it ourselves. We are so glad we did ...
Hunter Valley, NSW - home of Australian wine
This is a top pick! ... to head up to Hunter Valley, home of Australian wine, on the 5th January. We had to do it quick as they were leaving Australia on the 9th to get home. As it happened, this all worked in nicely with plans already made with Paul and Megan and ...
Hunter Valley
This is a top pick! ... brewery who brew a few very interesting beers including a alcoholic ginger beer. We spent the night at the quaint little Cessnock Hotel which is most likely the oldest hotel in the town. We had a fun evening at the downstairs bar and joined some ...
the famous and fabulous hunter valley
spent the day whine tasting in the local vineyards avoiding the major ...
The Hunter Valley
A Cheery and Cheesy Hello from the Hunter, This is a place we could have definately lingered for a lot longer, but for the benefit of our hip pocket and love handles we decided to make it a quick look see. We arrived on Saturday afternoon and after ...
Hunter Valley Wine Tasting
We did not get to the Hunter Valley when we visited Australia in 2002 so we rectified this oversight. Hotel: Aussie Rest Motel Lunch: Massively large sandwiches at Oakvale Winery Dinner: No dinner. Cessnock rolls up the sidewalks very early and we ...
Nytår i Hunter Valley
Af Dorthe Vi vågnede ved at det bankede på døren. Klokken var 8.00 og Lars råbte at vi sov. Pludselig blev døren, som åbenbart ikke havde været låst i nattens løb, åbnet og Kristian´s kammerat fra i går stod på trappen. Lars fik forklaret, ...
Cessnock the cesspit
... and then it started to rain, its our first day of rain so far! We all ran back to the van and drove the three hours to Cessnock, we found what seems to be the only campsite in the town which is not great, myself, Emma and James were on a bit of a downer ...
Hunter Valley
mmm...let's try the Australian wines... We tasted some red wines and chose for a Shiraz from Tyrrell's winery, combined with a nice BBQ of lamb and bruschette at the hostel we were staying. In the afternoon I finally saw my first kangaroos, ...
Great Lakes, Hunter Valley
26.04.09: The region of the Great Lakes is beautiful and very different from what we have seen so far in Oz. Among the large forests, you could easily picture yourself somewhere in Canada! We took a step walk to the summit of Cape Hawke which gave us a ...
Day 313- 315 Cessnock , Hunter Valley Vineyards
... food, despite pronunciations etc. We came up with Orange, Roma (tomatoes - it was a stretch), Berry and Quorn. Travelling to Cessnock via the New England Hwy meant we’d not get an opportunity to see the Barrington Tops region via the Thunderbolts ...
Sandboarding & Wine Tasting
... man originally from Germany at one of the lookouts who shared with us tales of what life was like for a German arriving in Australia in wartime and how he made his life here. A fascinating insight into a world that's now all but forgotten. Port ...
Hunter Valley
... . Der ligger over 50 vingårde i dalen og disse leverer nogle af landets bedste vine. De fleste vingårde er placeret omkring byen Cessnock, hvori vi havde booket 2 overnatninger. Her håber vi, at vi kan få en god vin til nytårsmenuen i morgen. Turen ...
Lower Hunter Valley - Wine country!!
... its wineries. It seemed that the bad weather must have all been on the coast, for by the time we reached the small town of Cessnock it had turned into a very pleasant evening. we checked into a very nice Irish Hotel/Pub for the night and planned out our ...
The Hunter Valley
... open carriage. This is probably heresy but I was not very impressed by any of the wines which I tasted, preferring the wines of Western Australia which seem to me to have more flavour, but I was forced to buy a couple of bottled to while away an evening ...
Hunter Valley
... roads. When looking at a map going from Cairns to Melbourne looked like driving from San Diego to San Francisco or something. Newsflash: Australia is huge! It's more like driving from San Diego to New York and we had to do it in 12 days while trying to ...
Hunter Valley
... in the Hunter Valley, even if it was a couple of days later than planned! The Hunter Valley is a famous wine region in Australia and has over 120 wineries. The most well known vineyards are Dray ton's Family Wine, Mount Pleasant, Audrey Wilkinson, Tulloch ...
Hunter Valley Part Two
We only had the one day in the Hunter Valley so had inevitably decided to book a wine tour. As we pulled up the gravel drive toward the wooden cottage that sat on top of the hill we could see that Brian, the friendly, bearded and bespectacled tour guide ...
Hunter Valley with kids - no wine tasting
Wednesday, early. We set off for our tour of New South Wales' most famous wine region at the tail end of Sydney rush hour. Looking for a quick exit we headed across the bridge and for the main motorway exit North only to find Pacific ...
Boozy Birthday Bash
It was to be Linzi's 21st birthday - Again (I think this is the 10 year on the trott !!) and for the celebrations Rachel, Craig, Linzi and myself took a trip up the Hunter Valley wine region to try some of the world renound wines. We stayed on a Big 4 ...
Big storms ....
Today was a very full day for the conference. I was not speaking until the afternoon so I was able to sit in and listen to the others and also spend some time looking around the hotel. After a nice lunch I did my presentation, listened to a couple ...
Hunter Valley
Hunter Valley is the home of many of the Aussie vineyards and source of much of the wine that finds its way back to the UK. So being in the wine capital of Oz, we naturally started our "research" at the Blue Tongue Brewery, one of only a few (if not the ...
Who needs an atlas anyway?
... and to be fair it was pretty lovely, taking me past Lake Macquarie, which was absolutely huge. Unfortunately the scenic route bypasses Cessnock and brought me out north of Newcastle, which was the town past where I was going, so I had to navigate my ...
Wine country
Heading in land to the Hunter valley, it was going to be hot with temperatures reaching 42 with no sea breeze. We had never been to a vine yard or a cellar door before so didn't know what to expect.We soon got the hang of it and found ourselves having a ...
Hunter Valley Wineries!
... tour of the wineries would probably have been better in the lower valley...so we turned around and went all the way back to Cessnock. Oh well. On arrival trawled around a few motels and the YHA hostel (which was ridiculously expensive) and ...
Been a long week...
Once again I was not speaking until the afternoon, so after attending a session in the morning I spent some time in my room catching up on some work - see, never get a moment to myself ;-) Had another pleasant lunch before sitting through the ...
One for the road
... , but she didn't mind and it meant we had someone to show us around. It took pretty much all day to do the drive from Cessnock over to Blackheath stopping off for some supplies and taking in the breath taking scenary as and when we came across it. We had ...
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