Crowne Plaza Hotel Newcastle

Wow, what a place for sailing, Lake Macquarie is gorgeous and filled with sailing clubs and on a weekend or week night you are guaranteed to see yachts on the lake.<br>I WOULD NOT recommend the caravan park we stayed at, it was NOT like it looked on the website and found it old and run down and hard to drive around in. We also had a bad experience with a nasty man as our neighbour and had to make a complaint to keep appropriate behaviour ...

the house not a creature was stirring except for the crazy mother getting all the washing dried and folded, all the last minute things squashed into bags, tidying the house and hoping she remembered everything.<br>My mantra is now...If we don't have it we can buy it!!!!<br>All the girls are in bed. I'm not sure if they are asleep but at ...

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 dann fiel mir ein, dass ich meine Ansprueche wieder etwas herunterschrauben muss, da australische Wohnungen eben anders aussehen als deutsche. Auch die Hygienestandards in Kueche und Bad sind nicht vergleichbar. Da ...

... some money, but still ended up buying a few beers and playing some poker! Monday was Australia day, which they seem to celebrate quite a lot over here, flags and banners everywhere! We didnt really drink beacause we found out that we were going to be working the next day, that kinda sucked as everyone else was getting drunk lol. So now its off to work, and we'll be onto a next stop at the weekend.

... to serve my company. They word it in a way that makes me seem like company property. "Thou shalt not work for any other, thou shalt work until blood is shed from your fingertips, thou shalt not say anything negative to any human rights organisation", etcetera and such. The good news is I can now stay for another 2 and a half years. Or until my employer decides it would be funny to deport me. Cue the immigrant song. The running joke at work is that the only reason they let ...

... bad the odd spider in the bed or room and threes plenty outside but i hate the cockroaches. The Aussie don t like them either but they except them and just have to live with them. But seriously they freak me out i ve had the odd one inside too. You just have to make sure there is no food lying around that all food is sealed away. Apparently they are not dirty so they say over here or associated with dirty place they just love ...

... doing 12 hour days everyday and never got to enjoy what Australia is all about. Good decision, I reckon. Time is flying very quick on this trip and is almost a year since Ben and I left. I cant believe it and I can't believe Amanda, Acky, Lee and Shipley will be here in two days. We are so excited and all having a three week holiday with them although what we are doing is a secret, but it will be a three weeks they and we will never forget. Find out in the next entry. See you later Adam

... found Angela sprawled out on the sofa asleep and then helped a 5 year old to do a puzzle but I am sure he was better than us! The evening was getting late and it was time for Frances and Angela to go to the station as they had a greyhound to catch at 10pm. We said our goodbyes and then myself and Brendan made our way back to the hostel. It had been a very long day so we decided to get some sleep. 10/12 Both the Canadian guys and Paul signed out in the morning so that just ...

... off a few seagulls but fortunately they soon lost interest in us when they noticed that somebody had fish & chips about 500 yards up the beach. They were soon being 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 (after Sydney), it had originally been the place ...

... her to grab one off a tray that was being offered around, only to then be reprimanded by the man with the tray as the chocolates were ONLY for people on his wineries tour! OOOPS!! Our next winery was the Hungerford Hills winery, recommended by Richard &amp; De. The wine was again pretty good but the main highlight was what we found sitting next to us on the step outside the winery...a potentially lethal Redback spider! (PIC) One winery we were ...