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Newcastle
Travel Blogs from Newcastle, Australia
Newcastle Take 2
... also amazed Kelly with his crazy right arm. He can wrap it around his head twice its so twisty. The main reason I came back to Australia was to see some old mates, and Johny I wouldn't have missed you. You and your wifey are always welcome to my home ...
Newcastle
... 've got a lighthouse, and some very surreal scenery: massive tankers in the distance with some of the best breaks in Australia, and incidentally, some of the best conditions for wind surfing as an easterly wind seemed to constantly sweep across the ...
Why I Man!
... find something that matches. After lunch I went on a mission walking around the coastline taking in the sights. Firstly I walked along to Newcastle Beach. Oh my god, I have never seen an ocean like it. It was quite windy however, I don't ...
Time to Move On
... at the end of the day lol. When friday came, we were so glad! Time to do some drinking! lol. We moved onto our next stop, Newcastle, and checked into our hostel. The first thing we did was check out the place, which we found out was pretty dead! Its not a ...
Saying Bye To Paradise.
... he had produced years ago off images around Tea Gardens, a little bit of something to remember them by, which was so nice. Newcastle was the next stop for one last night and to pick up the sleeping bags we had put into storage there. Today ...
Day 11 and 12: Sydney to Newcastle
... with he and Robyne ands as many family as are free. A huge amount of development around the waterfront here in Newcastle. Mix of apartments and offices. This afternoon we visited Rathmines on the lakes south of Newcastle. My dad was stationed here ...
Newcastle
... saved for the return journey. We ended up making it back to the hostel ( albeit breathless and very sweaty) in 26 minutes flat, a personal best!!! So that was it for Newcastle, next stop, Port Macquarie... to hold koalas in New South ...
Row, row, row ya Boat!!
Ja, Leinen los wuerd ich mal sagen?? Vorher noch gemuetlich am Newcastle-Hafen ne Pizza vertilgt.. kann ich nur empfehlen da... schoener Erholungs/ und Touristenort. Letzte Telefonate Richtung Heimat abgesetzt... man weiss ja nie, was auf hoher See so ...
mein allerletzter stop
... ich am freitag, 28.12. nachmittags schon mal die ersten 3 stunden gefahren und habe auf dem weg dorthin einige couchsurfing-hosts in newcastle angerufen. um 10 uhr abends kam ich an. um halb 10 hatte ich mir ein bett organisiert. da am naechsten morgen um ...
A great beer, but not a great town
... Newcastle, only stopping once for gas. The car made it fine, but I took it very easy. The city of Newcastle is actually New South Wales second largest city. Historically, it was were they transported convicts and made them work in the ...
A semester of a LIFE TIME!!
... life was like in Australia those 5 months. We surfed on the beaches where world champion surfers live, we traveled the East coast of Australia from the North tip down to Melbourne. We hiked the forests of the NE corner, lived on a dive boat on the Great ...
Gähnende Leere
... ich hatte daher anderthalb Tage hier eingeplant und mich darauf gefreut wieder ein paar Leute zu treffen. Konnte man aber vergessen. Newcastle ist das verwaisteste was ich seit Buffalo gesehen habe. Zuerst das Hostel, ich bin wieder mal alleine in meinen ...
Melly's Place
... to share our great 24 hours in Melly's home town. After a 2h drive from Sydney we arrived in Redhead, a little suburb of Newcastle. We were greeted by Mel's lovely mom and sister where we had lunch on their balcony which has the most beautiful view ...
Happy reunion then tearful farewell!
... much about her. And its all true - she is mad! She has been an amazing tour guide over the last 5 days taking us all over Newcastle and into the surrounding areas to show us the best areas. She even took some time off work to spend with us! The first day ...
It's Raining ... It’s Pouring!!!
... find patisserie shop in the shopping centre who had a spare table next to some power ports. Power and Internet in Australia for the backpacker was not easy to find and we settled down with a coffee and some magazines whilst everything was on ...
Meeting up with Whitney
What a warm welcome, Whitney I love you! We met back in China a long time ago and it was just one evening but we had the best and deepest conversations you can ever imagine in a short time like that. That stuck so well in my memory, so I had to see ...
Time to let go!
As all virgoes would appreciate, I am starting to get anal about the details. My trip is taking on the logistic proportions of the landing on the beaches of Normandy. I must leave something to chance , something for the gods to decide. This time next ...
Day 20: Newcastle but not as you know it
I discovered last night that nobody really cares in Newcastle, not even the tourists. Not that there are too many tourists around at the moment either. Except the Germans. Christ they are everywhere and they are relentless. I might fly to Germany and see ...
a Newcastle quickie
Ok, so, i ended up getting a ticket to see Pearl Jam once again, in Newcastle. So, of course i had to take it and go see it. the show was in a big barn. ok, that is just my opinion of the venue, but it was a small place, only 6500 capasity!! i was 10th ...
Newcastle
Aus den Nachrichten haben wir von dem gestrandeten Schiff in Newcastle gehört. Da wir sowieso dort durchfahren, machen wir auch noch einen kurzen Stopp im Hafen von Newcastle. Da gerade Sonntag ist, hat es einen riesen Volksauflauf, da es auch nichts ...
Newcastle
Nous trouvons la pluie sur notre route, elle nous accompagne jusque Newcastle, ce qui ne donne pas une super impression pour une arrivée en ville, qui de plus est assez industrielle vue qu'il s'agit du plus important port au monde pour l'exportation de ...
A Night in the Toooooooooon
... of us were Irish. It was pretty busy and there seemed to be a bunch of students dressed in luminous get-up, that part of Newcastle, Australia was similar. After the quiz we hit the hay and that was it for Newcastle, very different to my home town but in ...
Day 19: Half way up to Brisbane
... train to Newcastle. I passed through many townships and along billabongs, rivers and the occasional piece of coastline. Finally in Newcastle a few things brought back memories of my previous visit but on later inspection very little was the same in ...
The Three Stooges
Scene: Newcastle. A quiet beach town in Eastern Australia. ACT 1: The First Night. Trevor and Dana Enter Stage Right We arrived in Newcastle, got off the bus, grabbed our bags, and jumped on the old backpacker van that was waiting for us to take ...
NSW rain and boogie - boarding
Currently touring NSW - a little longer than expected as there are floods further north. Yet another wine district visited - this time the Hunter Valley which is very nice. We have had mixed weather with a few days of rain but also had some wonderful ...
Newcastle and the Hunter Valley
... . There were some great wines to be tasted -the favourite was Audrey Wilkinson, and the cheeses were excellent. I came back to Newcastle in the afternoon and decided to take a walk out to Nobby Head (yes, I know, there must have been many jokes ...
Sleepy town Newcastle
... us in Port mac - late evening. We were not sure if we'd be able to get any public transportation that time. Although Newcastle would have been a better location to access the southern Hunter Valley Wine county, we thought we'd try from the top end instead ...