Holiday Inn Esplanade Newcastle

... It's an event that takes hours on end, schwilling beers and nibbling food all thoughout the day. It was pretty interesting, because I'm not in Sydney anymore, that's for sure. The people here are more uh, shall we say, eccentric. They've definitely got strong opinions and are more than willing to share them. It's all good, though, I can hold my own. Looking forward to chilling out before I head up to Byron Bay ...

... etiquette, when someone leaves food its for general consumption and we managed to pick up a hufe amount of pasta and cereal - all good for the budget, if a little bit pikey hey. Still, when needs must.....<br><br>Saturday 31st Jan - defintely a highlight of the trip. We visited the Hunter Valley, getting taken around by 'Tex' and visiting a number of vineyards, along with fudge tasting, chocolate and cheese. We hooked up with three awesome ozzie's - Terry, who was from ...

... Got to Newcastle at around 3pm and we weren't too impressed with it as it was very industrial and a lot of the buildings in the town centre were either boarded up or for sale. So we started out towards Sydney and stopped about 20km down the road in a place called Belmont. <br>It was the last night in the campervan and we're really looking forward to getting to Sydney now. Lydia's friend from home, Tara, is living in Sydney but going on holiday for 3 ...

... Trish. She sent an email back saying that she was going to evict us if we didn't give her the money we owed. Huh? What money? I had been paying rent two weeks in advance since I moved in. Turns out that when I moved in, the house was in pretty bad order. For several years people had been moving in and out and the paperwork hadn't been kept up to date. The result was that we were actually one week behind on rent and half of the bond was missing. To top it all off, the ...

... gentlemen. Summer is getting close. Summer here seems to be great. Well, it's spring. Spring is good. Summer is supposed to be great. We've already had a few really hot weeks. Winter time in Australia isn't really all that great. It's not horrible, or super cold, but it's not great. It's just "surviving". Everyone seems to go into hibernation. People are dead. Life goes on, but barely. There is no spirit, like there is in Canada. I'm glad it's warm now ...

... around on buses. Ofcourse there are some great shopping malls but im being very good and not buying anything yet. Well there are some wierd and wonderful creatures insects and people in OZ its quite funny and have allsorts of wierd and wonderful rashes bits and sore eyes but there better now and im getting a brillant tan i love it no more fake tan this one a real one. So the plan is next week i have some interviews and ofcourse ...

... of them had been turned into art. Sculptures, sketches, paintings, and even some mosaics... That was pretty amazing to see randomly on your walk into town. On the same street there was also about 12 wedding shops. It took about half and hour to walk into the centre of Newcastle from our hostel, we got some ...

... call any minute. At times like this you feel blessed to be in constant motion, moving away from fire-streaked areas to the next place on the map. (A sidebar: that Norwegian chap I mentioned happened to tell me that when he returns to Norway he's joining a crew that's going to pilot a real Viking ship from Norway to Ireland next summer. It was raised from the deep, restored and now they're sailing it, Viking-style-meaning 60 stout men rowing at all ...

... going to do any work?'. well maybe if he didnt sit on his **** in the convee all day then we might follow his example! haha, hes almost as lazy as the big fat smelly guy, scott. he looks just like hurley (from lost), and i dont think ive ever seen him doing any work. we went to a pub quiz on tuesday and we didnt come last!! This week was council junk collection, so loads of people had **** outside their houses, and anyones allowed to take it. everytime we went ...

... any spelling errors nut we have had a very *********** the booze. We like the wine here very much so we felt it was only fair to consume as much of it as we could. Along with chocolate, cheese and olives. Don't worry we were on an organised tour we haven't just been sitting on park benches clutching brown paper bags. In all seriousness it ...