Category: Travel
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Rain
#Bloganuary challenge She was the first to hear it. Much lighter than the scrape of claws or clumsy attempts at running across the corrugated iron roof. It was a smattering of pencil point taps. She lay on her back, now alert to the increasing noise on the tin roof and the murmurs of the household…
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Travel: New Zealand and how to Hobbit – it’s a shire thing! – Travelgal on the move
Listening to callers on the radio today I heard many folk say they had never been to New Zealand . . . how can that be. So close and so beautiful. This was my first o/s journey in the 70s, and what an adventure. One of the callers today said she wanted to meet a……
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Stay in a Hobbit Hole New Zealand – NZ Travel Organiser
Can you stay in a hobbit hole in New Zealand? Everyone has heard of the Hobbiton Movie Set Tour, but this is a true Lord of the Rings experience. — Read on www.nztravelorganiser.com/stay-hobbit-hole-new-zealand/
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In praise of cheeses
In praise of cheeses In praise of cheeses — Read on travelgaltravels.com/2017/04/29/in-praise-of-cheeses/
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Parramatta – Western Star
Before freeways and paved roads, Parramatta was only accessed by the river. Now at 19km away from Sydney it’s not as remote as it once was and is the perfect ‘new’ city to explore and uncover the secrets of good food, good architecture – old and new and good times. The city of Parramatta was…
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A Posh Pet-Friendly Stay?
Yes indeed, at Four Seasons Hotel Sydney Up until recently there were only three hotels, one a boutique, in Sydney that invited pets into the hallowed halls of a hotel room to share with their owners. Unlike Britain and Europe, who love to accommodate their guests’ pets, Australia has had a no-paws rule in accommodation…
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How to Baguette – or the legend of the loaf

The ubiquitous baguette – bread of a thousand legends, countless laws and constrained to the perfect, ordained length – this is the stuff and staff of life to the French nation – the symbol of France perhaps. Fact: an excellent baguette needs to look, sound, smell and feel the part; with a golden-tinged crust and…
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How to go for gold – on Queensland’s Gold Coast

Queensland’s Gold Coast is fixed into the holiday psyche of Australians who love to holiday in a place of variety, charm and colour which displays the aesthetics of a true playground for all ages. Winter is coming! So, make plans now to head north and follow the sun. Always appealing, always evolving, ever the charmer…