Blogs from Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania - page 10

English I am still in hospital, it is week no. four now. Last Thursday, I received pretty frustrating news. The doctors told me that I would not be allowed to put weight onto my pelvis for 16 weeks, so almost 13 more weeks from now. The fracture in my pelvis is sort of transverse, and they fear that all that they have fixed nicely might move out of place again if I start weightbearing too soon. It takes bones four months to heal completely, so they want it all to be nice and stable before I start walking. I really was frustrated after receiving the news. I thought I would be on crutches soon. So there are a lot of plans that I will have to change. My health insurance is currently organizing my flight back ... read more

After spending two whole weeks in Sydney, a city which we loved, Kevin and I decided it was time to start checking out the rest of Australia. We bought Mini Traveler bus passes from Greyhound, which would give us 45 days to travel from Sydney to Cairns, up the east coast, and allow us to hop-on and hop-off as often as we want along the way. So, on Wednesday, February 18th, we hopped on our first Greyhound bus heading north to Newcastle! Newcastle is located 162km north-east of Sydney. It is the second most populated city in New South Wales (after Sydney, of course), with a population of approximately 288,000. It is located directly on the coast and has some amazing beaches. After arriving at Newcastle, we located our hostel, which is about a five minute ... read more

Hello again! Well, it is a rainy day and I have absolutely nothing else to do but update my blog! Hopefully this time, I will finally get it up to date! Sooooo..... where did I leave off? Alright, well, after Caroline and I slept in Manly with Glenn, we took a train up to Newcastle to stay with Robbie for a while. We got to Robbie's on Jan 17 (Sat) in the late afternoon. Robbie, being the party animal that he is, really wanted to take us out, so, we all went down to the local gay nightclub! It was so much fun! The three of us went, along with Lewi and Keira (Robbie's roomate and his girlfriend). It was so much fun and it was nice that we could just walk there from Robbie and ... read more

I just wanted to let you know that I had an accident on Thursday. Some broken bones. I'm in a hospital in Newcastle and recovering well. Internet connection is not very good here, I will give you an update as soon as possible. Might take a while though. Thank you for your messages, am happy about them.... read more

Hey Everyone! I'm back with lots to tell! I should really be updating this every week so that I remember more details and won't have to write huge entries to cover 3 weeks at a time. Oh well! Alright, not too sure where I left off, but I believe it was with Pyramid Rock Festival. After the festival, I went back to Lucy's parent's place. They me on a tour of the Peninsula. We drove around and also did a big hike. It was a really beautiful day! Lucy's dad, Mark, was an expert at pointing out all the kangaroos along the hike. I was so excited to see so many kangaroos. I was able to get pretty close to this really big one before he hopped away. We also saw this lizard... not sure what ... read more