Blogs from Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania - page 9

Geo: -32.9264, 151.781NOOOOOOOOOO!! Bad news, well for me anyway...i have to finally leave Newcastle.I have been working/traveling NSW for 8 months now and i am loving it here in Newcastle. Im having the best time since i have been up here. Its the people that are here (Backpackers Newcastle) that make it a place to remember.I don't want to leave.I am Currently staying in Backpackers Newcastle, i have been here for almost 6 weeks.Sean and myself have our own room, it sleeps 7 people but we have had the room for almost 4 weeks and the only person to stay was a Chinese guy who worked night shift.Work in Newcastle is pretty good, schools have some good meterage and they are close to each other, so im not driving as much and therefore not spending a ... read more

Geo: -32.9264, 151.781YAY...finally i left Canberra and made it to our next destination.....Newcastle. Well not Newcastle in general, but outer suburbs and small townships around Lake Macquarie.But i did encounter once again more problems with the car before we drove up, this time the distributor wasn't working properly and therefore had to be replaced. I was told $1700 for a new one or $250 for an aftermarket one. It became clear what choice i made.Finally after 2 days in the shop and $800 later it was ready to go.We took Sean's car up for the Thursday and Friday as Sean was going back down to Canberra for the weekend, we managed to Audit 15 schools in 2 days which was 1/3 of the area, this was because all of the schools are so close to each ... read more

Hello Well this is my final blog from Australia as I am flying to New Zealand in the morning! The last two places that I have visited are Newcastle and Sydney. I did spend a night in Sydney when I got here, it was supposed to be three days but I missed two days because of the food poisoning episode when I was supposed to leave Thailand so I came back after travelling over 3500km down the East Coast to see the things I missed. I'm staying in the Railway Square YHA, which is right on Central Train station. The whole place is designed just like a train station and you even sleep in railway carraiges which is a nice change! I just spent one day in Newcastle and I wasn't feeling too well. To get ... read more

English Tomorrow, I will fly back home to Germany. I will be taken to the airport by an ambulance, fly via Singapore to Frankfurt, and from there, an ambulance will take me to a rehabilitation hospital in the city of Tübingen. I will be accompanied by a German doctor and a German nurse, travelling first class, for the first and most likely only time in my life. The doctor managed it that I don't have to lie on a stretcher, but can sit in a comfortable seat that allows me to lie down if I want to. I was pretty happy about that. The doctor and the nurse will come and see me later on. I had a couple of pretty nice days during the last week. Scott went flying in Newcastle, so he took me ... read more

English On Friday last week, I was finally discharged from hospital, after four weeks. I am staying with Monica and Scott now. Monica came to pick me up on Friday afternoon, and the two of them had prepared a very nice surprise.The house seemed to say Welcome Katha as they had put up many balloons. And they had invited some friends for dinner, so we had pizza and a birthday cake with Adriaan, Dustin, Wendi and Gary and their daughter, Tinks, Conrad and Anousha and their little baby. It was an absolutely great surprise, and I was really happy about the most beautiful evening I had had in weeks. I would like to thank Monica and Scott anyway, not only for the surprise party, but also for having me. They accepted strangers (the occupational therapists) to ... read more