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Newcastle Slideshow
Newcastle
Travel Blogs from Newcastle, Australia
four seasons in one weekend
okay.. so we left the Bay for Newcastle... the weather was holding up so we decided to do a bit of sight seeing.. we did the 'lap' along the foreshore along the coast, even saw a pod of dolphins and where I worked. Had some awesome food- ...
Howay Man!
Hey there everybody, Greetings from Geordie land! We arrived in the city of Newcastle yesterday afternoon, just a few hours bus journey north of Sydney. We really could be in Newcastle GB as this place has all the piles of coal and cloudy weather you ...
Day 3 From Kangaroo Valley to Newcastle
... National Park. Last stop in Kangaroo Valley at Cambewarra lookout. Afterwards a small stop in Mittagong before rushing through to Newcastle. I think we found the cheapest accomodation thats possible in Newcastle; 60AUD for a night over a sports pub. Whats ...
Conservation
Hi, We have arrived at the conservation place now in a place called Newcastle. Its apparently a City but i rekon its about the size of chesterfield. theres some really good beaches, but weve not really been in the sea yet cos theres hundreds and ...
Newcastle and Lake Maquarie
For our next stop we were staying about half an hour out of newcastle in Lake Macquarie which is a huge lake that leads out to the sea. We were lucky enough to have a lake front caravan sight with amazing veiws from our caravan. It is a beautiful place ...
Leaving for Tahiti
Our bags were packed, passports on-hand and we were ready to go! We left Newcastle on a train to Sydney before saying goodbye to my family. We got into Sydney international airport at about 1am, before discovering that it closes between the hours of and ...
Off on the road to...
... . It will also be for us, a record of what we did and what we saw. So anyway, here we go, ready or not, and all those other clichés. Goodbye work and hello world. We will miss Australia and all our friends and family but it will be worth it! ...
Heading south
Up bright and early for the big drive south we got up in the darkness. We woke ourselves up with a quick hot shower and jumped in the trucks to head towards Alice Springs. It is approx 1500kms from Darwin to Alice so we wanted to try and get there in 2 ...
Newcastle, New South Wales
... nbsp; On the way we stopped at Entrance to see their hotel. Entrance is a resort town about one hour from Newcastle. After lunch we headed to their condo which is located on the harbour. While staying with them they took ...
Whey Aye pet man woman
... is surprisingly quick and painless and went for a very windy walk to the lighthouse and Knobbys Head. Both Stockton and Newcastle are really quite pleasant towns with some nice buildings and the beaches have beautiful white sand and clear blue water. ...
Newcastle
... were a good laugh for the evening. My bus I had booked left at 9:30am the next morning so I only caught a quick glimpse of Newcastle but was impressed by what I had seen and would encourage other travellers to go there even if they get put off by travel ...
Plains Trains and Automobiles
... my papers got messed up and I wasnt accepted into the housing. Since theres a 17 hr time difference between Illinois and Newcastle communication to get it worked out was horrible. Anyways, sitting there in the terminal was boring and seemed to ...
Hornets
We arrived in Newcastle and decided to set up the tent in the Caravn park, it is cheap and well appointed, I haven't been enjoying some of these tourist parks, there are lots of rules, and codes to get into the toilets, this one is big but has a chilled ...
Less than three weeks to go!
Nearly there! This time in three weeks Shar and I will be roaming the streets of London. Six weeks in GB is going to be ...
Last Week in Sydney
... Australian flags, and are having people sign them when we get ready to leave an are, or other people leave us. Wednesday was Australia Day! Which is kind of like our Independence day. Its a public holiday, and everyone goes to the beach. We chose ...
Getting started
Finally got all our paperwork from agent and had our get together the other night. Was great to meet some of our fellow travellers, even though we are now a small group rather than a large one as first intended. Must be something to do with the financial ...
1 wine 2 wine 3 wine floor
Newcastle!!! Similar to its English twin, in very few ways!! We had sun which i think trumps straight away!! Newcastle was mainly a stopover, as its a small town there was not much to do, although the coastal area was really nice! Our main point for ...
Sup!
Sup! its sarah, havin a reli cool time here in sunny Oz! learnt a couple of things over the weekend...firstly never wear flip-flops (or 'thongs' as they call 'em ova here..caused much confusion until we learnt the crazy oz lingo) to a potential moshing ...
Beach Duning Adventure
... leaving me to myself all morning! I was going with Kip and Scott at 1:00 for the Beach Duning Adventure! What a BLAST! In Newcastle they are rebuilding the cruise ship pier, so Mercury was actually tied up to an industrial pier and we were being tenderred ...
The Cambridge
Hello again! Two entries in one week, how exciting! Weve not really done much this week. Just been concentrating on saving the planet, as you do. Pretty boring really. Plant a few trees, pull up a few weeds and abracadabra, no more global warming! ...
Stockton beach, Newcastle
... at Stockton was a really pleasurable one, with some terrific views, great beaches and of course the wonderful hospitality of our Newcastle extended family. Well thats a wrap for this blog, we are on our way to the Hunter Valley region for two nights ...
Newcastle
... ... Me and my good mate Matt had been planning this trip for awhile I planned it out so that we could stay in Newcastle at a backpackers and take a (cheaper) wine tour through the hunter valley. So hearing about a crash on the freeway we decided to wait ...
Getting Ready
Hi Folks, Just a quick one to advise that Gaelene and I have set up this Bloggy thing to record our holiday with the girls over the next couple of weeks. Due to the time differences and our hectic schedule this is ...
Off to Newcastle
I took the train North about three hours to Newcastle to catch up with Sophie, who I hadn't seen since our exchange in Portugal. While there I got my first glimpse of koalas! I was really great to spend time with sophie and talk about old ...