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But the band plays Waltzing Matilda, and the old men still answer the call,but as year follows year, more old men disappear, someday no one will march there at all. The line above is taken from the Eric Bogle song, ‘And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda’. I remember a time in the 1980’s when there
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Since March of this year, the list of things we miss not being able to do because of Covid-19 is very often led by overseas travel. For me it started out with thoughts about the destinations I wouldn’t be seeing in 2020. It was also about the missed adventures, the exploration and discovery of new
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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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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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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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On 22 Setember, I was invited to speak with Jules Schiller on ABC Adelaide’s Drive Program to discuss the issue of travel agents in light of the ABC story about Flight Centre, which described the issue of ‘marking up’ fees and a culture of underpaying staff. My contribution to the discussion was focused on why
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On Saturday evening, 18 September, I spoke on 95.3fm about my regular Malaysian travels, Malaysian food and Malaysian tourism strategies. We also spoke about Rajah Brooke butterflies, the JDT Tigers, the benefits and consequences of spicy food and how much I enjoy using the rail network (particularly the monorail) in Kuala Lumpur to travel the city. Have a
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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 a guest of Quest Apartments and Rockingham tourism operators, my family enjoyed a very busy weekender out of Perth. Great weekenders, and the much savoured long weekend, often mean we try to travel as far as we can to somehow ensure the best time possible because we’re as far as we can be from
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