Cessnock, Australia Travel Blogs

Lorna is home
Dec 22, 2008 (10 photos)

... 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!!!
Dec 22, 2008 (72 photos)

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 ...

Lower Hunter Valley
May 31, 2008 (1 photos)

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 ...

Hunter Valley, NSW - home of Australian wine
Jan 5, 2008 (12 photos)

... 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 the ...

Hunter Valley
Jan 31, 2008 (13 photos)

... 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
Apr 14, 2006

spent the day whine tasting in the local vineyards avoiding the major places

The Hunter Valley
Nov 17, 2008 (20 photos)

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
Jan 22, 2006

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 ...

Hunter Valley
Jul 28, 2006 (3 photos)

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, exciting ...

Great Lakes, Hunter Valley
Apr 26, 2009 (21 photos)

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 ...

Sandboarding & Wine Tasting
Sep 12, 2008 (27 photos)

... 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 ...

Lower Hunter Valley - Wine country!!
Jan 4, 2005 (6 photos)

... . 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 following day. ...

The Hunter Valley
Oct 10, 2009 (5 photos)

... 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 or two ...

Sampling wines of the Hunter Valley
Jun 26, 2006 (1 photos)

Stayed at the cold and metalic YHA in Cessnock (floors and walls made of aluminum?). Enjoyed some fabulous wines in one of Australias premier wine regions ( www.winecoutnry.com.au ). So many wines, so little time :-(

Hunter Valley
Nov 13, 2008 (1 photos)

... 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 Part Two
Sep 25, 2006 (2 photos)

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 ...

Nov 24, 2009
Nov 24, 2009 (85 photos)

Boozy Birthday Bash
Feb 29, 2008 (8 photos)

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 ...

Hunter Valley
Dec 20, 2007 (8 photos)

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 ...

Hunting out the best wines in the Hunter Valley
Dec 19, 2009 (5 photos)

 Wahey, more wine tasting! The Hunter Valley is beautiful, with rolling hills of vineyards and traditional wine cellars presenting lovely wines. I think the area here is prettier than Margaret River in Western Aus, but I preferred the wine over there ...

Hunter Valley Wineries!
Dec 24, 2006 (5 photos)

... 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 ...

Hunter Valley - back to the wine country
Mar 9, 2009

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One for the road
Nov 26, 2008 (27 photos)

... , 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 ...

Hunter valley vineyards
Jan 7, 2008

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Death Highway
Mar 8, 2009

... would have lasted much longer. 1 large wallaby 9 other fluffy things of various shapes and sizes Turns out Eric Clapton was playing in Cessnock so the 1 campsite was full and wanted $45 to stay on a patch of grass.  The YHA only wanted $30 for ...

wine-tasting in the Hunter valley
Mar 8, 2009

... -conditioned coach. At one point we had considered hiring a tandem bike until someone pointed out that this isn't France  it is Australia and hence very hot and things a very long way away from each other - for which I will be eternally grateful. Not ...

The Hunter Valley and Hawkesbury River
Sep 5, 2005 (3 photos)

Our arrival in Scone, the gateway to the Hunter Valley wine growing region, coincided with our first real experience of rain in Australia. It poured down all night leaving us claustrophobic in our little van until we braved the rain (and very wet feet for ...

wine part 2
Jan 14, 2009

if anyone wants to check on the last few days stay on travel pod & type in kevrach they have just written about the same trip& their version might just be slightly diffferent to mine!!!! now this stop after lunch was a bar of shots,yes really!! ...

who said wine ?
Jan 9, 2009

... have to wait & see with all the 1000 of photos, sorry guys you will just have to suffer, tamworth, armindale, & cessnock arriving back near brisbane ready for the winery tour the following day,there were about 16 of us in a mini bus & ...

Hunter Valley
Oct 15, 2006 (5 photos)

hunter valley is amazing it is a must. We took a tour to 5 winerys but my interest was in the brewery... bluetounge... they make one of the finest lagers just behind cascade's but ill have my glory with that in my future travels to tasmania. Ohhh and the ...