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Newcastle Slideshow
Newcastle
Travel Blogs from Newcastle, Australia
exploring New South Wales
... also a panoramic view of the city. Rather than drive back on the highway we continued the ling drive back along the water, driving past Newcastle Beach, Bar Beach, through King Edward Park and past many other beaches. ...
The Port Stephens Experience
... against you, the best thing you can do is go back to the City, so we actually drove back on ourselves towards Newcastle. According to the Lonely Planet, Newcastle is this grungy happening place. It certainly was grungy, and as for happening, there was ...
Newcastle and Hunter Valley Wine Region
We are leaving the lovely sub-tropics and heading to Newcastle, which is about 2.5 hours north of Sydney and about 50km from the Hunter Valley winery region. We travel for about 10 hours overnight (yikes!) and arrive in Newcastle at 7:20am. Our wine ...
Newcastle
... to the hunter valley and thought I would do a wine tasting. Wine tasting was good, some lovely whites and pretty scenery. Newcastle a bit odd though. I was sharing a room with 2 young girls from newcastle england who had been in the dorm for 10 weeks, ...
Nothing to report...
Well, after just over 36 hours in Necastle I can truly say that I wont come back here :) Previously an industrial town, they have tried to revamp it into a holiday location. It is not very impressive and I couldn't find a great deal to do here. The ...
Koalas, Kangaroos and Emus Oh My!
... I slept in a little longer than I would have liked to especially since the sun finally came out today!! I walked along Newcastle's Bathers Walk for about 7 kilometers from Newcastle Beach to Mereweather Beach. I was hoping to go for a swim in one ...
I Can Tell That We Are Goon Be Friends
... I had another wander around Newcastle in the day and then at night we all drank at the hostel before heading into Newcastle for Wednesday night student night! This wasn't anything compared to a student night back home though! On Thursday I headed ...
A Little Out-of-Town Trip
... suggested Port Stephens which is a few hours north. We packed up and headed for the train station for the CityLink train to Newcastle. Sydney is so incredibly well connected to its outlying areas. The train trip was 3 hours and only $7! We arrived in ...
Wyoming to Newcastle
Overnight in Newcastle. We arrived in Newcastle and went down and had a look at the Nobbies. We were catching up with Family again while ...
Blog setup and pre-trip planning
... you are from New South Wales then you have to go through the Consulate General of Brazil in Sydney. For every other state in Australia, you go through the Embassy of Brazil in Canberra. The passports and visa's have been collected - so we are now ready ...
Summertime...and the living is easy....
Our days are filled with sun and sea as we continue our cruise up the coast. We stopped off at a suburb of Sydney to visit Mel, a friend of one of our college buddies (Mark Johnson). After sleeping in the car for a week, it was heavenly to have a bed to ...
These Brushfires ain't no Fairytale
... I'll survive because the beach is real nice and apparently there's great live music here. Oh yeah, and because I'm in frikkin' Australia! HA! I'm here till Sunday and then I think I'm heading to Byron Bay. It's supposed to be a backpacker ...
Newcastle Beach
Newcastle is Australia's second oldest and seventh largest city. What a nice break from busy Sydney. Our hostel is very relax and much more quiet. It makes me think of a private club. The main room has a fire place, huge leather couches, pool table ...
I looove Newcastle
... i bus. Typisk siger jeg bare. Men i Newcastle var vejret nu ogsaa fantastisk, og humoret steg hurtigt! Ved busterminalen i Newcastle holdt der en minivan fra vores hostel (Backpackers Newcastle) og ventede paa os - total luksus! Newcastle er ...
THE WESTIES AND BATEAU BAY
Yeah, so yesterday I got the train from Central in Sydney and headed 2 hours up the coast to the Newcastle area. Bateau Bay, actually, where I've got friends I met in South America. A great married couple: she's from Scotland and he's ...
Newcastle!
... . 14th of May Had a nice sleep in today, at about 10am we eventually got up, had a nice walk into Newcastle, Passing a row of desserted shops - the fronts of them had been turned into art. Sculptures, sketches, ...
Bar Beach
... I walked out to Bar BEach which was about 15 minutes away from the hostel, and is one of the best surfing beaches in Australia. The beach was actually much more beautiful than I expected and the water was really clear. There were surfers all along the ...
couchsurfing
Hallo, das Abenteuer geht weiter. Mein Bekannter hat mich abgeholt und ich habe eine grosse Matratze und einen noch groesseren ehemaligen Balkon, die ich die naechsten Tage mein Reich nennen darf. Als ich zuerst in die WG kam war ich geschockt, aber ...
Newcastle, why aye mun!
Well, nothing really to do here as the whole time we stayed, it rained!!! Two nice beaches, but could'nt sit or swim on one of them!! There was nothing to see or do really, wouldnt really recommend this place unless the weathers amazing and you love ...
Conservation Volunteer and politics down under
... capacity further.. The house mentioned is rather cosmopolitan, at the moment there are volunteers here from australia, belgium, germany, Hong Kong and Japan, and previously from south korea and the US. Whilst there were some ...
Pre-departure
I am now officially tri-currency, with a vast array of papery notes stashed safely away (thank you Mr. Bank). Today I bought all the euro and pound currency available at my Commonwealth bank branch, as well as a couple of travelex cards from the post ...
Yves St La Roache is... Hard To Kill
... Euro-bug into arthropod afterlife, and they just carry on. True, this was an Aussie roach, from the pleasant town of Newcastle no less, and they're tough cookies. These fellows are all hard-drinking tanned specimens who enjoy life to the full, ...
Spot X Surf Camp
Alright dudes!!! Welcome to surf camp. Ready to catch some gnarly waves??? Surf camp was ace. I got up on my 2nd wave. I kicked butt!!! Julesy needed a little more time to get back into it....perhaps it was she wanted a one on one with the surf ...
Newcastle
It was my first morning in Newcastle and it looked like a pleasant day. It was an early rise as I was heading out with 7 others in our hostel to the hunter valley to do some wine tasting! Our mini bus driver for the day would be an Ozzie called Tex. ...
Newcastle - Wye aye man!
We stayed in Newcastle for a couple of nights cos we wanted to make sure the brakes were okay before we set off again. Newcastle centre is the most English style town we have come across. Apparently it was were they used to send the re-offending ...
The first week of real travelling
... long two hour wait near Dunedoo where I met my first Australian snake. It was one of the most dangerous and poisonous snakes of Australia - brown snake. I was hitching by the road when I first heard it crawling in the dead grass by the road side. At that ...
Newcastle
... her flat mate Jess would be delighted to show us around and look after us. An offer like that couldn't be resisted and so we hit Newcastle... Mel's flat was lovely, it was so nice to have carpet under our feet, a clean and comfy bed, a TV and the ...
Its over!!
So as most of you know by now - the tour is over! We returned home on Thursday 20th August and spent the night at Cessnock with Gladys, Neville and Chloe. We spent the rest of the weekend suprising everyone and settling back into the house at ...
Nice Cockroaches!
For a city with a population over half a million there was the worst choice of accomadation yet. Emma was bursting for a pee after two hours of driving around hotels failing to find one that could even get close to our budget. Then we found the only ...