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Reasons to avoid Bali
Why would you holiday in Bali? Bali’s attraction is singular; it’s cheap. Well the weather’s good too if you like crushing humidity, but the reason people come is because they […]
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Pay more for a car in Europe. How clever is this?
I am in the stunningly gorgeous town of Cortina, in the Italian Alps, and I am turning left just as a youthful Calabrian has elected to overtake me. He re-designs […]
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How to discover a 5000-year-old corpse, and other Italian adventures
The problem with Australia is that we grew up with cars and our roads are wide, flat and direct. Great for getting there, not so good if you happen to […]
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Oyster shucking for dummies
Now South Australia is a terrific place, no denying that, but what do you do after you’ve done the wine trail and maybe hiked up to the Flinders Range? Seems […]
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Getting your toes nibbled in Kalbarri
The best fish and chip shop in Kalbarri is just over the road from where the cray boats tie up. There are bench tables outside so the customers can make […]
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Justifying a four-wheel-drive
If you own a four-wheel-drive and live in the eastern suburbs you are by now thoroughly sick of all the jokes about four-wheel-drives in the eastern suburbs. It’s possible, also, […]
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Great drives – Northern Italy
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Wines drives – West
Denmark. It’s a curious name for a little town on the south coast of Western Australia and it’s not down to homesick Danish mariners, the place was named for a […]
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Wine drives – East
In 1953 poet Philip Larkin wrote in a letter to Winifred Arnott that he wished someone would invent a decent way to get to Loughborough from Belfast, and you can […]