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  • Top 10 Travel Essentials for Back in the Day … and Today.

    Some of those golden rules about travel are still gold standard today.  The featured image for this story comes courtesy of my son Tom who took the photo while I was trying antigravity yoga at Four Seasons Jimbaran, a very safe and very luxurious resort in Bali. Travel should increase your sense of daring but

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  • Travel that throws you back

    In the 1984 comedy movie, Top Secret, the French resistance group has a member whose name is De Ja Vu.  There is a scene in the movie where he is introduced to another character and he looks at him suspiciously and says, “Haven’t I met you somewhere before?” Like deja vu, the sense of nostalgia

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  • Hong Kong with Typhoon Tom

    What’s just as important as the destination?  The journey of course!  How could I resist using the image of Tom and his Cathay Pacific entourage as the featured image for this post? Tom and I have just returned from Hong Kong where we travelled with Cathay Pacific to Hong Kong Disneyland, stayed at the Disneyland

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  • Apurva Kempinski delivers a new experience on the greatest island in the world.

    My son Tom and I recently travelled with Batik Air to our favourite island in the world, Bali, to experience a new resort, Apurva Kempinski.  It was promised to us as a ‘new era of first class hospitality’ and without doubt the level of luxury is absorbing from the moment you arrive. The soaring spaces

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  • With Have A Go News Newspaper, Let’s Go Travelling…to KL!

    Have A Go News In the link above to Have A Go News enjoy reading my feature article on travelling, eating and shopping your way around Kuala Lumpur and making sure you stay somewhere amazing as well. You can also find Have A Go News in over 1800 outlets across Perth and regional Western Australia. Love Lot

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  • ABC Saturday Breakfast:  Long weekends, overnighters and day trips

    What a great chat on Saturday morning ABC Breakfast with Christine Layton, discussing the Australia Day events from Broome to Albany to keep you entertained and then a few suggestions for daytrips and overnighters throughout Western Australia.  Get out there and find new adventures even on the most well trodden path. Below are some pics to

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  • 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.

    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

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  • Karry On travel industry website: Ticking all the boxes in amazing South Africa

    As published by travel industry website, KarryOn: Romantic comedy, Blended, starring Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler, was partially filmed in South Africa and my daughter Matilda’s love for this movie and her desire to travel to the locations from the movie have led us to The Palace of the Lost City at Sun City in

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  • Karry On travel industry website: We’re On Safari To Stay

    The following story, as published by Karryon (www.karryon.com.au), shares with you the exploits of my daughter and I in a remarkable part of South Africa: As my daughter Matilda and I touch down on a little airstrip in the Madikwe Reserve in South Africa for a safari with Sanctuary Makanyane Luxury Safari Lodge, the next

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

      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

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