HI there sorry its been so long since i have written. To be honest i have been a little fed up and busy finding a job. So life s not that different on the other side of the world the weathers just better, job agencies are a bunch of paper pushing time wasters, transports rubbish and everyones broke stressed and tired. giggle giggle. Seriously i ...

After about 18 hours on a coach I arrive in Newcastle. I by passed Sydney as I will go back there for xmas and new year. Have been in Newcastle for 2 days now. It's a quiet place, but a massive town. Half of the people moved out 20 years ago because the local steel factory shut down but more people are coming back to live here now for the lifest...

well we are back! leaving doug and june's was sad...no more people running around on us hand and foot what will we do? we had to buy our own groceries and alcohol today which we found tragic. we also went swimming this morning. here are some left over photos from new years and doug and june's.

We had intended to go on a wine tasting tour in the Hunter Valley today, which was organised by the hostel and left at 9.00am, however in the early hours we were woke up by the sound of somebody being violently sick. As there is no door on the toilet/shower block and it's right opposite our room, we got to hear every single retch rather too well...

So, another week of conservation is over, yay! This week we had a different team leader man called Steve, and it was pretty boring really. Sarah really doesnt get on with him, hes kindof lazy. One of this weeks jobs was pulling up grass by hand!?!! There were some baby trees so they couldnt just cut the grass around them, but jesus, its like sum...

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 hundreds of jellyfish everywhere!! little blue ones. theyre all washed up on the beach, an i dont fan...

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 us to our hostel. We were quite impressed when we arrived at our hostel as it had a large kitchen and...

We decided to go get something to eat. We drove to Newcastle (about 30 mins away) and found a Turkish restaurant. They had a nice sign with good prices. We sat down and were given menus. The prices on the menus did not match the prices on the nice sign. We asked our waitress about this discrepancy and she told us that the prices on the sign were...