Newcastle, Australia Travel Blogs

A quick trip down the coast
Dec 17, 2003

... working in a hospital in Newcastle. (Our destination for the next day). It was interesting to hear about his experiences in Australia, although I cannot really remember them as I write this about 8 weeks later. While we in Hervey Bay, we managed to ...

Australia - Newcastle
Jan 5, 2006 (14 photos)

... us for all of the days travel, the ferry to Stockton and the bus to the station the following morning when we left Newcastle - Bargain! After popping into the Tourist Information Centre and a few shops (which again closed early - 4pm on a Saturday!), we ...

Pacific Highway
Apr 13, 2008 (25 photos)

... Nobbys beach right on the point and had a wander around before returning to the car and heading to the more sheltered Newcastle Beach. We checked out the Ocean Baths on Shortland Esplenade and clambered along the rocks to check out the surfers riding the ...

Cheerio, Sydney-siders, g'day Novacastrians
Nov 12, 2006 (4 photos)

... is making an effort to lose those sorts of negative adjectives, which aren't really all that attractive to tourists. Despite being Australia's seventh largest city, it is extremely quiet, even for a Sunday night, except for one waterfront bar that has a ...

Day 316-322: Coffs Harbour to Sydney
Jul 31, 2005

... around the city for the rest of the day, much much smaller than I thought it was gonna be considering it's supposed to be Australia's 6th largest city. Main shopping street was tiny and dead, walked up to the Obelisk which is on the hill and looks out to ...

Snoring and pouring
Nov 13, 2006 (5 photos)

Until about 2am today, all our impressions of Newcastle had been positive. That's when Jane and I are both woken up by what sounds like a chainsaw being cranked up in our room. It is, in fact, our dorm-mate, a vaguely creepy, older guy, snoring with such ...

Time to move on from sydney and start our ...
Dec 22, 2002

... Coast. The coach left at 8.00am which meant an early start which we are not used to. After about a 3 hour journey we reached Newcastle and thank goodness there was not a Geordie to be seen! We stayed at another YHA ($58 for a double room - 20 quidish) ...

Map pin for Newcastle
Feb 25, 2007

Map pin for Newcastle

Sharing is Caring
Aug 16, 2008 (2 photos)

Okay.  Tonight is my last night in my own bed for 6 months. Now that is a scary thought... It has been brought to my attention that one must be signed in on this site in order to leave a comment on this blog.  That's a shame, as I hardly ...

From the small to the Big island!
Oct 9, 2009 (6 photos)

... , the car hire company brought the car to us the following morning. We had a good run up to New Lambton Heights, near Newcastle, to our nephew's lovely, very large home and have received a royal welcome here.  They are great hosts and have taken us to ...

And we are off!
Apr 20, 2009

After a minor hiccup (one broken wiper and one awesome mechanic) we left Newcastle at about 2.30pm.  The kombi is set and ready to go and im sitting next to John and writing my first entry.  First stop is Wollongong and while we will probably hit ...

Newcastle
Jan 5, 2006

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Getting prepared
Feb 13, 2009

Hello all! This is my first blog entry, and is really just here to see if this thing is working. I am waist-deep in preparations, learning my script, packing my stuff and trying to decide whether to sell my furniture... anyone need a really big ...

A week-end in the Bush Camp AVEC ISA !!!
Nov 26, 2006 (25 photos)

back to normal life after spending two days and a half with Isabelle my friend from France who is working in a BUsh Camp five hours by bus from Sydney. To give you a better idea of what it was exactly, you have to imagine a summer camp for kids but in ...

All shiny and new...
Nov 30, 2008

Well, after a twelve hour drive from Melbourne to Newcastle, and a week spent in the sunny NSW city - it's not long now until i head off... I've laid everything out on my bed, tried to measure it up against the travel sack and i'm crossing my fingers ...

Katoomba - Newcastle
May 8, 2006 (7 photos)

... plagued by the seagulls, especially when they made the mistake of feeding them. We stopped here for about a hour, knowing that Newcastle was only about 100 kilometres up the road. Newcastle was founded in 1804 and is New South Wales' second largest city ...

DEPART EAST MAITLAND FOR DUNEDOO
Jul 26, 2006 (3 photos)

We left East Maitland on Wednesday 26 July 2006 for our journey around Australia.  We were excited, apprehensive and ready to hit the road after staying at Raquel's parents house for the last 4-5 weeks.  Ashlee, Leanne, Jaimee and Beau were ...

Sydney Aquarium/On the road to Newcastle
Mar 9, 2006 (22 photos)

... They were in Sydney visiting their son. That's one thing that surprised us was the amount of Canadians and Quebecers in Australia. Maybe it's because the Commonwealth games are on in Melbourne. Afterwards, we went back to the hostel and got our stuff. ...

Diary and MHMF Challenge Updates
Jan 17, 2007

... wallabies, emus, koalas and many native birds. Then we went on a tour of some of the local beaches and the Newcastle Waterfront. That evening we cooked dinner. Wednesday 17th January After booking our travel arrangements for the remainder of our stay in ...

Newcastle
Jul 30, 2006 (3 photos)

... Pacific Ocean: how incredible is that?! Swimming in the middle of winter, I couldn't believe it. We spent the night in Newcastle at Zander's place, an old friend from Delft. It was nice to catch up with him and finally speak some Italian with somebody ...

mmmm...pizza...
Nov 25, 2006

Had a great couple of days in newcastle, felt like mine and Gem's last days of freedom before getting to the big city to settle for a while. We were pretty excited about Sydney and it was really all we were waiting for so we didnt get up to much in this ...

CVA Project Base
Mar 3, 2006 (12 photos)

The place where i'm staying is actually in Cardiff, a suburb of Newcastle. I got picked up from the train station and taken to the house from someone from CVA. Met the other volunteers at the house - Tom and Sarah from Chesterfield, Ali from Wiltshire and ...

Coastal Desert Safari/Bogey hole
Mar 12, 2006 (20 photos)

... grub. He had to leave early in order to catch our bus so we didn't get a chance to hear the live music. We left Newcastle around 9:30pm and got into Port Macquarie around 1:00 am. It stopped a few times to pick up some people along the way. Once we ...

Newcastle
Nov 5, 2006 (4 photos)

... a minibus - Us, 2 nice Canadian girls and 2 Polish old ladies who didn't really like wine (???). We arrived back at Newcastle in the early evening to stormy weather and massive waves on Nobby's beach. Found out what the score was on the beach ...

and more sharks still
Oct 13, 2006

... pretty good and dozens of dolphins swam right up to us and around us playing and riding waves and whales were breaching further out. Some nice waves were caught and some nice views were had. And here we are now in Newcastle, still on our way to Sydney.

Random, but interesting!
Feb 20, 2006

Did you know that when you go diving deep, as in deeper than about 25m or so, you can get this syndrome called Nitrogen Narcosis? If you are lucky enough to get "narced", it makes you feel drunk, sort of, and completely off your rocker. There are ...

Newcastle
May 9, 2006

... retiring to our room for another few hours of sleep. One power nap later, we both felt refreshed enough to explore Newcastle properly, although this town didn't have as many stunning landmarks as Sydney, it still looked a pleasant enough place to live ...

Where are the geordies? (ha, ha)
Nov 23, 2006 (3 photos)

The following things are interesting about Newcastle: 1) There is a nice lighthouse on a rock 2) The hostel we are in has all-you-can-eat pizza on a Friday! Roll on Sydney- wohoo!!!!

Our day in Newcastle
Feb 15, 2008 (8 photos)

Our day in Newcastle was a random sleep deprived few hours of wandering around town entertaining ourselves in any way we could. Last night we didn't get much sleep thanks to a group of Germans having a party in the room next to us and only finished about ...

Hey
Feb 20, 2006 (9 photos)

... from the weekend at Crescent Head. On Friday I went with Suzie and her rugby team to a 7s tournament about 3 hours north of Newcastle. We camped a stone's throw from the beach; it was really nice. You could hear it at night, which I really enjoy. But ...