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Maitland is such a great old town. It was one of the busiest and most prosperous regional centres in Australia in it’s hey day and there remain a mind boggling number of spectacular old buildings. This town is a smorgasbord of surprises – great places to stay, eat and enjoy.
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Suspension Bridge at Northbridge has kept silent watch over a changing Sydney for 125 years.
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Heritage listed Catherine Hill Bay is a rare but largely intact example of a coal company town and it contains the oldest group of buildings in Lake Macquarie.
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It’s always after a few cold wintry New South Wales days that my thoughts turn to the Northern Territory and it’s beautiful Kakadu National Park…but my favourite time to visit is still a good few months away in the wet season.
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When you travel to Goulburn NSW you’ll realise immediately this unique inland city has a colourful history. The wealth and influence it once had is reflected in the scale and splendour of its streetscapes and it’s architecture. This is a grand old lady with a thousand stories to tell.
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The village of Collector NSW punches above its weight when it comes to quirkiness and a wonderful sense of community. There’s a heap of really good reasons to visit – here’s five of them.
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At the end of the track to Bullimah Spur in Bouddi National Park at Killcare, the story of a lost soldier is fading into history. An ordinary man who made an extraordinary sacrifice and left an amazing legacy.
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The popular and much-used Fernleigh Track was built on the route of an old railway line which once linked the city of Newcastle to Belmont in Lake Macquarie.
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The Easter long weekend just around the corner, we’ve delved into the archive to come up with nine offbeat travel ideas. Hidden ruins, ancient volcanoes, and a lost railway – and that’s just the start.
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What do explorer Matthew Flinders, pirates, shipwrecks and the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake have in common? They are all linked to the maritime history of Stockton.
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