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The hard road to Karijini and Millstream. Just do it.
The dust is thick, fine and red in Western Australia’s Pilbara; it gets into everything and covers every surface inside and outside the car. The corrugations are relentless, the accommodation […]
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The mistakes people make at Port Augusta.
We’re ambling along the beachside walk that curls around the township of Coffin Bay, just along the road from Port Lincoln in South Australia, and a group of people at […]
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AAA or rechargeable? A family argument.
Bose has just announced a new noise-cancelling headphone and the big news is Bluetooth and near-field communication. For my money Bose makes the best performing noise-cancellers in the biz and […]
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Tall tales and true from the mouth of the Murray
Maybe you’ve never heard of Meningie, a neat little town on the shores of Lake Alexandrina on the near-side of South Australia, but if you’re into birds, windswept coastline, heritage […]
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Why the Strahan-Queenstown road is so good
There’s a story the locals love to tell about the road that joins Strahan, the stunning west coast Tasmanian port, with Queenstown, the rough-hewn mining town 41 kilometres away. Until […]
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A symphony of mechanical music
Rudesheim is a little town on the banks of the Rhine in Germany, an hour west of Frankfurt. The population is officially 10,000 but the town is always crowded and […]
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The Great Ocean Road 50 years on
Every summer our parents took us kids to Anglesea for the summer holidays and that was fine until we discovered that compared to Lorne, Anglesea was about as cool as […]
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At last! A portable music player that sounds good.
Sony’s Walkman came on stream in 1980 to rewrite air travel comfort, and the brand dominated the market through cassettes and CDs until it was hit for six by MP3. […]
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Noise cancelling headphones are for planes, right?
I guess there are other applications for noise-cancelling (NC) headphones, but they are truly in their element in air travel. Planes are noisy and NCs do their best work in […]