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A Stroll Through the Toodyay Bush
Last weekend, I ventured out for a beautiful bushwalk through the Rugged Hills Nature Reserve near Toodyay here in Western Australia. It’s a rarely visited, basically unknown little corner of the...
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Why I love cycling holidays . . .
Firstly, let me just say, I am not a lycra clad, cleat wearing, five thousand dollar bike riding fanatic. In any sense. And yet, I love the concept of cycle touring. And here’s why. On a bike,...
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Rookie Mistake #3: Opting for Cool Transport
So we’d just arrived on the Greek island of Kos, we were partaking in our first Mythos beer at the local taverna and waxing lyrical about how marvellous island life was (Gav: “I could live here!” which...
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To Guidebook or Not to Guidebook: That is the Question!
They’re such handy little reference tomes, and yet, a part of me doesn’t like my travel experience dictated by a guidebook. So, the question remains: is it worth your while to buy the guidebook. Look,...
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Top Places to Stay: @VDL Stanley
I love the unpredictability of travel, when even the best laid plans go a little bit wrong and you have to come up with a solution that can be even more of an adventure. Or, in this case, instead of...
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Pigging Out in Montmartre
During the Belle Epoque, Montmartre was bustling with impoverished artists, lured there by the cheap rent and the fact that there were plenty of other impoverished artists to hang out with. These days,...
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How to Be an Agreeable Flyer in Eleven Easy Steps
Airports can be places of great stress. I know this because I passed through a couple a few weeks ago in order to go to Melbourne to watch my glorious Eagles be utterly humiliated in the Grand Final....
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India (or the Chronicles of Naan-ia)
For a long time, I considered India too intimidating. Too crowded, too poor, too confronting, too likely to make me sick. But then, so many people I knew had visited and raved about it that I figured...
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Cold Weather Dreaming
I am not normally a cold weather person. But Perth is currently in the grips of a torturous heatwave (three days in a row of 42C for starters), and we don’t have air conditioning at home (don’t ask!)....
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Cape to Cape (the slightly soft way)
I am a paradox. I like the idea of hiking through the wilderness, with the wind in my hair, staring thoughtfully out to sea from a rocky headland. Yet, at the end of the day, I don’t want to huddle in...
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