Executive Inn (Deluxe) Newcastle

... we could ALL hear him! There is quite often school children reading our blog so I won't go into this incident. <br>We visited Newcastle which is nice and had lunch at the port in the lovely sun. Newcastle is quite an old area, as is most of the coast north of Sydney. We aren't used to hilly, windy road with loads of dense trees everywhere. It is so very different to Perth!<br>Some of the beaches along the coast near Belmont ...

... I can finish up in peace. They are very excited but all said they are a bit nervous. Its hard for them to understand what its going to be like. <br>Only 13 hours till our plane leaves at 10.15am.Mark is nursing the very sooky dog who knows something is going on. <br>Well, better keep folding.....See you on the other side of the planet :))

... aber auch nicht sauberer sind und die 3 Jungs ja auch und sogar dauerhaft in der Wohnung hausen, beisse ich also meine Zaehne zusammen und bin einfach dankbar fuer die mir entgegengebrachte Gastfreundschaft und ein bisschen Privatsphaere. Dass ich nun keinen Meerblick mehr habe ist auch OK. Die Straende waren gestern und heute aufgrund des Sturms und Regens eh gesperrt. Das Wetter soll anhalten, schliesslich ist hier jetzt Herbst. Heute war ich in einer Art ...

... stay is so when I leave they can blame the Canadian. The up side is that I've been put on some rather interesting jobs. Interesting being the key word here. At least I'm now one step above the students, even if I'm still taking orders from the trained monkey. I'm sick of flinging poop at clients that don't pay their bills. My shoes broke. They kind of got worn through. I'm not too impressed with them. They were light and comfortable, but offered no support and fell apart to ...

... unlike home where you generally find them in dirty places. So my advice to future travelers get a can of insect spray thats strong. I am now armed with spray and if they invade my personal space they will get sprayed if there outside i don t mind. I am still not over checking my room and bed every night. I check everywhere poss and strip my bed and make it again but now i have spray that supposed to last up to 7 days i might relax a ...

As you probably gathered from the stories on this blog, I do OK with the ladies. Now I don't like to boast but my numbers are pretty good, though not as good as R to whom we gave the nickname Sunny (after Sunil Gavaskar, as they had both raised the bat twice). But anyway, back to me. While we boys all love to tell each other how many notches we have on the bed post (lucky I have a four poster) when it comes to telling the ladies we have to be careful. Because for some ...

... me with the room to myself. I had to get up reasonably early as Tex was taking Brendan and I on another tour to see Dolphins and go sand boarding in Port Stephenson. As Tex turned up he said there were 7 other people on the bus from another hostel. As we got on the bus we found 2 Canadians and 5 people from Hull who seemed ok even if they had a very harsh accent and loved to use it... but my view of them was to change throughout the day. It was a 50 minute journey in which I ...

... the very worst convicts had been sent to, if they had re-offended since arriving in Australia. Until the 1990s it had been predominantly an industrial town, but then the largest employer pulled out and for a few years the town struggled with high unemployment and the related social problems this caused. However now the town seemed to be getting itself back on its feet and as we were driving through the outskirts, we saw a pleasant looking town filled with old styled ...

... interested in was the Kevin Sobells winery. Not really for wine-tasting reasons but because they have a huge St.Bernard that appeared in the recent Peter Pan film. We decided to make it look as though we were cultured and tasted a few wines, including a weird chilled red, and we actually managed to find a wine that Verdi could stomach, only to find out that it was only available from that shop and nowhere in the UK! Then the real reason we ...

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 times.