We arrived in Newcastle yesterday, which is three hours north of Sydney. The greyhound bus ride went very smoothly and is much more backpacker orientated then in the USA. Newcastle seems a very surfer dominated town but our attraction here was the nearby Hunter wine valley which we toured today. It was great!! We got picked up at 9am and taken into the valley. Our first stop was a small boutique winery called Coopers. I tried 5 wines here - 3 white, a red and a dessert wine. They were all very good, particularly the dessert wine. Sadly, you can only buy Coopers wine direct from the winery so no chance of getting this anywhere else. I tried another 4 wines at the next winery, including a nice white port and then we moved onto an
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