At the drop of a hat!
On 6PR with Fred we listed a few of our favourite travel firsts. First flights. First time overseas. First family holiday. Enjoy the discussion in the audio file below. Let me know what your favourite travel first is. I was in South Australia recently and my son Tom, who has travelled the world, was amazed by Stobie Poles.
With all the sites and sights of the world a power pole on his first trip to South Australia is what caught his attention!
Enjoy the audio below:
On 6PR Weekend Wrap Up, I found myself sharing the airwaves with John Burgess, an icon of Australian television and radio. A tv game show host legend and a radio dj when dj’s were gods of the airwaves. It was very cool to laugh our way through stories about sports tourism.
From callers with tales about naked West Indian cricketers to iconic events and venues around the world and close to home, with a lot of laughter we covered more ground than the MCG.
Enjoy listening to the first half of the show in the file below. Just like a Grand Prix driver, we go off track from time to time but we got to the finish line in style!
With Prue on ABC Victoria Statewide we discussed the strategy required for that short interval break during a theatre show. Do you run for the bar or the bathroom? Do you try both?
We explored London’s West End, New York’s Broadway, The Loop in Chicago and even closer to home in Perth with opportunities to see Wicked at Crown Theatre and upcoming productions in Geelong.
Musicals can lift an old story to new heights, think of Matilda and Lord of the Rings. They can provoke an interest in history thanks to Les Miserables, Evita and, of course, Hamilton.
Musicals and tourism walk excitedly hand in hand, engaging you in temporary escape experiences and providing an opportunity when you’re in distant lands to immerse yourself in local culture or closer to home turning a night out into a night away.
Try and book early for your theatre experience but there’s nothing wrong with Prue’s approach to just rocking up to the ticket counter in your best back packer outfit and trying your luck!
Just a reminder if you’re booking online to please make sure it’s an official ticket purchasing site.
The curtain is about to come down on this description but it might come back for an encore if I can upload the audio file of the discussion a bit later on.
On 6PR on a recent summers weekend on the airwaves, we took to the skies to discover how getting into the air can inspire your travel or be an exciting part of it. It was also an opportunity to reflect on my air moments.
I used to love accompanying dad out to the Narrogin airstrip when his patients needed to fly out with the Royal Flying Doctor. I’d walk around the gliders and light aircraft, imagining I was a fighter pilot waiting to hear the call to “Scramble! Scramble!”.
I love that my kids have enjoyed getting into the air. Tom has ziplined, parasailed and been in seaplanes and even done ifly indoor skydiving. Matilda has ziplined and been in helicopters and even flown up the coast in a Tiger Moth, one of the worlds most beautiful and gentle aircraft.
Astronaut Michael Collins’ wife wrote out the aviators poem High Flight for him to take into space. In his book, Carrying the Fire, Collins remarked that he wondered what Magee would have written if he’d experienced space and not just flying a Spitfire through the blue summer skies of wartime England.
Even the most non religious pilots enjoy putting their hand up to the sky and murmuring…
‘And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod, the high untrespassed sanctity of space, put out my hand and touched the face of God”.
Magee posted a copy of the poem to his parents and not long after was killed in a flying accident.
From rites of passage and pilgrimage experiences like Gallipoli, Kokoda and the Western Front. From lesser known but no less important sites at Parit Sulong, Sandakan and Roebuck Bay; we visit these sites for understanding, respect and perspective.
I’m looking forward to writing up my stories from what I think is fair enough to describe as the family holiday of a lifetime but maybe we can better it … one day.
London – plus Biggin Hill for me to fly a Spitfire – then Paris, Rome and down to Puglia to stay at Matera during the Festa Della Bruna, and then some seaside days spent in Polignano a Mare before time in Istanbul and a very special visit to Gallipoli.
Now to get writing for print and radio!
Astronaut Michael Collin’s once wrote that he wondered what John McGee, author of every aviators favourite poem, High Flight, would have written if he’d been able to go into space. I wonder if my own words, far less grander than High Flight, would improve with more height. I don’t think so. Gliding above the flat, wide landscape below me was a remarkable experience that I’m happy to share with you in the published story below.
From KL to Penang is easy to do. A quick flight and you’re there. But only a little bit longer and a lot more fun is the journey by train.
Enjoy reading my published story below. And remember that if you can’t get a newspaper in your hands, my published stories with Have a Go News are just a click away on their website.
There’s a secret to be found on the rooftop of one my favourite resorts in the world. It’s something we need to see more of if we want to keep the luxury we love.
I hope you enjoy my published story below in Western Australia’s best newspaper:
With the news that Qantas are commencing flights to fly out of Darwin to Singapore and Canberra, ABC Darwin called me to see which way I’d go.
We talked about Singapore and how there are so many opportunities to discover more than shopping centres. At Haw Par Villa theme park, visit Hell’s Museum and learn all about the Haw Par brothers who invented Tiger Balm and used to drive through the streets of Singapore in tiger themed cars with a horn that made the sound of a roaring tiger! Find your way to Lau Pa Sat where from the street you buy a million satays and a cold Tiger beer!
Canberra is the home of our federal parliament and very accessible Parliament House. It’s also home to our sacred Australian War Memorial and to many of our beloved art treasures in the National Gallery.
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