quirky travel
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Perth isn’t that old is it? And our regional communities aren’t any older? While our Aboriginal culture is tens of thousands of years old, our oldest buildings are less than two hundred years old. But that doesn’t stop many of them from sending a shiver up or down our spine and feeling that spirits from…
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As we grow up and find our way in our street, in our town and our state, there are experiences we have that aren’t connected to bucket lists or wish lists. They might be things that our parents have done and now think we’re old enough for, or places they took you to that you…
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It’s normally around now that we remember the New Years Resolution’s that we made nearly a month ago. It’s normally around now that reality kicks in as you realise that work outfits seem just a bit tighter than the singlets and bathers you might have been getting around in all summer. It’s time to combine…
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Have you ever sat in the cinema, watching the latest blockbuster with your favourite stars and with glee realised that the action is happening somewhere you have been? Have you travelled the backroads of Bali like Julia Roberts in Eat, Pray, Love? Have you done your best James Bond pose in Thailand at James Bond…
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Hidden Treasure has found a lot for us to do over the past year and a bit. There have been quirky museums, good places to eat, main streets to shop in and lots of urban art. Our next Hidden Treasure is for someone in the family who loves us unconditionally even when we sometimes can’t…
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Hidden Treasures has been a journey of local discoveries that has led us to urban art trails, suburban museums, jetties, lakes, parks and so much more. In this penultimate edition of Hidden Treasures for 2021, we’re doing a year in review, we’re naming names, we’re handing out gongs and we’re doing it quicker than the…
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Community gardens are thriving in our urban areas. Some are inspired by a commercial opportunity to support a business, some are designed to teach kids how to get dirt under their fingernails and others are designed to be opportunities to make connections with people in your community who just want to grow some food or…
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There’s some bias to be declared. I’m a Narrogin boy. I haven’t lived there since 1988 but it’s still where I call home and my kids love getting back there every year to see where I went to school, got into fights, played sport (sometimes well, sometimes not) and the houses I lived in. For this…
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HhYe64zC_Q_JH8k4Kl8eo6PdBLqfiOnC/view?ts=5df04623 Wonderful discussion on the ABC Breakfast Show with some very funny talkback callers confessing to all sorts of things that have just ended up in their bags. Do we leave our values and compliance with rules at home when we check in to a hotel? As the hotel card is pushed down…
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On the ABC Perth Radio Breakfast Show we recently discussed the continued popularity of dark tourism. It doesn’t have to be morbid but it does have to involve death in wars, disasters, murders, terrorism or assassinations. The darker side of history has meat on the bone and the gristle as well. We try to put ourselves…
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