Cheese and wine on our Balcony of the Pub

Hunter Valley Wineries

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January 30th 2010
On Sat 19 Dec we caught the night train (because that was the cheapest travel option) South West to Maitland. We booked our tickets at the Byron Bay train station, however - get this, Bryon Bay has a train station but ... no trains!!! You can book the train but in order to embark you have to catch a bus to Casino - very bizarre! THE NIGHT TRAIN The night train was quite the experience, I bel ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Hunter Valley

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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