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6PR Perth Tonight Interview: Undiscovered Lands in Well Discovered Countries

May 13, 2019May 13, 2019Posted in 6pr, 6prnews, adventure tourism, Chris Parry travel, discoveritaly, family travel, fortkochi, india, Italy, kerala, luxurytravel, matera, Puglia, travel, travel bucket lists, travel news, trekking, trekking tourism, walking tours of italyLeave a comment

In a recent Friday night conversation with Chris Ilsley on 6PR Perth Tonight we had a great conversation about undiscovered lands in well discovered countries, particularly Puglia in Italy and Kerala in India. If you’d like to listen, the link below should take you to the 6PR website.

Hidden gems of India and Italy with Chris Parry

Discover these regions before everyone else does. In Puglia do a walking tour with Exodus Travels through olive groves and ancient towns. In Kerala, explore the quiet streets of Fort Kochi and be surrounded not by the crush of congestion like India’s north but by the scent of spices being harvested and dried in the laneways of this peaceful and beautiful region known throughout India as ‘God’s own country’.

Pic above: Matera in Puglia is one of Europes most ancient cities and is the 2019 European City of Culture.

Pic above: As busy as traffic gets in Fort Kochi, Kerala. Visit the spice traders of Fort Kochi, watch the Chinese Fishing Nets be raised at sunset, recline in the gondolas of the Allepey Backwater canals and walk through the tea plantations of the Munnar Highlands.

With Have a Go News Newspaper and lifestyle website The Starfish, let’s find out where I found love. There you go, I’ve said it.

November 16, 2018June 28, 2019Posted in 6pr, 6prnews, abcadelaide, abcperth, abcperthsaturdaybreakfast, adventure tourism, Chris Parry travel, discoveritaly, family travel, famous movie sites, Italy, matera, movie location bucket lists, Puglia, travel, travel bucket lists, travel news, travel writing, travelling to see movie locations, trekking, trekking tourism, Uncategorized, walking tours of italy, wanderlust, writingTagged discoveritaly, exodustravels, Italy, Puglia, travel, travel writing, trekking, walkingtoursLeave a comment

They make movies here. It’s a land that gave birth to one of the worlds greatest crooners and one of the worlds greatest songs. Below are some links to my story, published in The Starfish and also by Have A Go Newspaper. This is a love story. This is a story about Puglia, a land with towns that one junior reviewer of my work described as, ‘being full of towns with funny names’. He’s right. Puglia does have lots of towns with names you just want to keep on saying, not just for the memories but for the mood it puts you in, just like humming a few bars of ‘Volare’.

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http://www.thestarfish.com.au/author/chris-parry/

ABC Breakfast Show: Let a Regional Show Pull You Out of the City

October 22, 2018July 5, 2019Posted in 6EBA, 6pr, 6prnews, abcadelaide, abcperth, abcperthsaturdaybreakfast, Chris Parry travel, family travel, narrogin tourism, regionalshows, roadtrips, tourism innovation, travel, travel news, Western Australian TravelLeave a comment

Great discussion on the ABC Saturday Breakfast Show about the lure of the regional shows – the agriculural shows – that can get city folk hitting the road for a day trip or weekender.

Regional shows have big tractors, big roosters and rams and if you’re lucky, big scones and mock chicken sandwiches in the CWA tent.

A wander through sideshow alley with spruikers enticing your participation with great calls of, “Don’t be bashful, don’t be shy, step on up and have a try!”

Just remember the golden rule on the Dodgems/Bumper Cars; “One way ’round only drivers, one way ’round only! Left hand down, left hand down is the only way ’round!”

6PR with Chris Ilsley: Putting A Face To The Name – Mount Agung

July 4, 2018August 23, 2018Posted in 6pr, 6prnews, Bali, balitrek, Mount Agung, mountagungvolcano, travel, trekking, trekking tourismLeave a comment

She is an old girl. She is the Old Girl. She is over 3000m high. That’s nearly a kilometre higher than Australia’s biggest mountain, Mt Kosciuszko, and about two kilometres than Western Australia’s biggest peak, Bluff Knoll.

In my discussion on 6PR’s Perth Tonight with Chris Ilsley, we discussed my fears in climbing this volcano (twice!) and the view from the top and just what it means for Mount Agung to be a member of the Ring of Fire.

In the picture above, I have reached the summit and the pyramid shape you can see is the shadow of Mt Agung projected onto the clouds and ground below.