Western Australian Travel
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I recently spent a brilliant evening on Radio Melayu chatting about my recent adventures and how we all need to find a way to get packing and escape winter by getting overseas or embracing winter and snuggling into a gorgeous resort down south. The link below features descriptions for a few of my new favourite…
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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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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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Enjoy my chat with Gareth Parker on the 6PR Morning Show about the Emirates decision to revolutionise air travel with windowless planes.
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“I found out long ago, it’s a long way down the holiday road” That line, from Lindsay Buckingham’s, ‘Holiday Road’, theme tune for the movie, ‘Vacation’, is so evocative of those road trips from the past and the present. Peeling mandarins, playing travel games based on the colour of oncoming vehicles, the stench of…
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As published in the newspaper, Have A Go News, October 2017. When I was a kid growing up in the country there was a time of year when I wasn’t allowed to spend the weekend with my mates, playing cricket or football or lazily riding our bikes around town looking for sources of adventure, like…
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Please enjoy the discussion below on ANZAC Travels, particularly to Western Australian memorial services on Rottnest Island, at Geraldton, Albany, Boyup Brook and Grass Patch. From ‘And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda’; “And the young people ask, what are they marching for? And I ask myself the same question.” I think we’re all…
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Please enjoy the discussion below about sports tourism; what it’s worth, why we do it and how we do it: In 1987, Fremantle was revitalized to support one of the globes biggest sporting events of the 1980’s, the America’s Cup. Today, you can touch the mystical winged keel of Australia II at the WA Maritime…
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Enjoy listening to the story below about getting those Easter long weekend travels booked before it’s too late. I’ve suggested a road trip and a rail trip that will get you out of Perth for a couple of days. Picture Above: The Australind, from the heart of Perth to the heart of Bunbury in…
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Mitchell Freeway construction 1968. Can you spot Parliament House? Originally published in the West Australian. The writer was a guest for some, not all, of those mentioned in the story below. This story was also broadcast on 6PR. Part I Looking at what lies alongside the freeway is not unlike the journeys we make to further…
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