Tag: Travel
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China: First Encounter
A mate of mine recently visited Beijing for the first time and was mighty impressed with the super high rise modernity and the cosmopolitan ambience. It threw me back to my first trip there in the late 80s. My first visit to China was on a whim in 1989. I saw an ad in the…
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England’s Peak of Perfection
Or how to Pride and Prejudice From heather-clad moors, grand homes, to rugged mountains and sweeping vales, pretty villages and resplendent gardens . . . it’s all here. I’m such a sucker for anything Pride and Prejudice, and as Miss Elizabeth Bennet and her aunt and uncle curve around the road and Pemberley appears before…
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Travel: New Zealand and how to Hobbit – it’s a shire thing!
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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How to sip and glamp
In the gentle grip of the grape. When you are ready and able to take a road trip out of Sydney, head towards Orange in the central west of NSW. Rustic but refined, this experience sets you in the middle of classic Australian terrain – generous glamping and a spectacular cellar door next door.…
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Slow Travel: Cruising Vietnam
An up-close and authentic view of real life in Vietnam is happily experienced while cruising the rivers with stops along the way in villages and hit of the big smoke – Hanoi. Take it slow . . . Torrential! And that’s the perfect word for the monsoon rains that lashed our ship for 20…
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Bali: then and now
NEWS . . .NEWS . . .NEWS . . .Hotel Indigo Bali Seminyak Beach becomes the first 5-star rated Hotel Indigo in the world. The five star rating is from LSU Pariwisata Bali Mandiri, a tourism association in Bali responsible for all Indonesian property ratings, which is part of the National Accreditation Committee in Indonesia.…
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Holiday tips
Happy new year friends, let’s hope for fun, frivolity, fairness and a fecundity (couldn’t think of another F that was suitable) forthcoming. I’ve had a lovely Christmas in sunny Sydney and ate my body-weight at the groaning table of abundance. Headed to Melbourne to view the amazing array of wall art that has been decorating…
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Neck and neck, a tale of three scarves
They keep our necks warm, they are lovely companions, they can be roiled up into a little ball as a pillow, they accessorise the plainest outfit, they’ll cover up a bad hair day, their colours can enhance your looks, they are beautiful gifts, they can be worn as a sarong, a sash or a stole…
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