Hunter Valley

Wine tasting in the Hunter Valley

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December 31st 2007
Day 278 30/12/07 Amongst the things we had planned for a fun-filled time in Sydney we wanted to leave the city for the day and take Sandie and Tony on a trip to the Hunter Valley wineries a couple of hours north of Sydney as we'd had so much fun on our wine tour in WA. Back in Nora we went off for our trip. The Hunter Valley is a famous region in Australia for the fertile lands producing "s ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more