For me, the timelessness of the Dampier Peninsula was a very welcome withdrawal from the modernity and luxury of Broome - a real retreat, so says our Travel Guru. Read More ...

Come join me on my adventures during seven day's travelling around St-Rémy-de-Provence, France, visiting new and old sites and new and old friends. Read More ...

Located a short distance from Matamata on the North Island of New Zealand you enter the magical world of Hobbiton, the movie set where scenes were shot for the movies The Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit. Read More ...

It's the Scenic Railway that's remained the jewel as both an ageless and historic attraction enabling tourist to access the Jamison Valley floor and to then have a choice of varying length bush tracks and boardwalks. Read More ...

Rotorua is more than just a place for an adrenaline rush, it's one of nature's unbeatable Thermal wonderlands! Read More ...

Phillip Island boasts two excellent spots where you can see another side of Australia and get up close and personal with the local animals. Read More ...

For train enthusiasts, or anyone interested in train history, the Welsh Ffestiniog Railway Company, the oldest narrow gauge railway in the world, celebrates its sesquicentennial anniversary next year. Read More ...

Over the years Casa Loma has appeared in various guises from a luxury hotel to a popular nightspot. At one time it was seized by the City of Toronto for unpaid taxes. Finally, in 2011 it was taken over by the City Council. Read More ...

Check out our new "I Want That Flight" service offering both low cost Domestic & International fares and tell us how it compares. Read More ...

We arrive at Mayreau Island in the Grenadines on day six of a seven day cruise from San Juan to Barbados shared with 100 passengers and nine five crew. Not a bad ratio hey! Read More ...

Blenheim Palace is about an hour's drive from London. The Palace is enormous covering anamazing 2.8 hectares or, in layman's terms, close to 30 average Australian suburban house blocks. Read More ...

The city perches atop a 120-metre deep, 68-metre wide canyon. Below flows the Rio Guadalevín which tourists marvel at. And Ronda, by name alone, translates to rocky. Read More ...

For as long as he likes to remember, Wollongong's Steve Melchior has had a passion for motor cycles, especially those with the Harley-Davidson badge. Read More ...

When QE2 retired after nearly 40 years as an Atlantic liner and world cruise ship, the grand liner had carried over 2,000,000 passengers and steamed some 8,600,000kms. Read More ...

One morning in January 1942 as Masaitchiro Shimasaki was enjoying his regular breakfast cigar on the beach off his comfortable little home in then-American Samoa, he noticed something unusual glittering off-shore in the early South Pacific sun. Read More ...

Melbourne's Laneways have become destinations for locals and visitors, They are colourful alternatives for music, art, bars, and restaurants. They are also places to stroll and to party. And their character changes constantly. Read More ...

This year's Tulip Time Festival in the Southern Highlands of NSW will be the 53rd of what has become one of the biggest celebrations of the tulip in Australia. Read More ...

Join the dots between a witchdoctor, a centipede, exotic ostrich steaks, Victoria Falls and Dar Es Salaam, bizarre desert dunes and Smoke That Thunders and you will take an extraordinary trip by trains, planes and automobiles. Read More ...

The easiest way to see DC, without having to worry about changing hotels and dragging suitcases back and forth, is simply by taking an inexpensive day trip Read More ...

What's made up of more than 4,000,000 parts from 1,500 companies around the world, takes nine months to build at a cost of US$390m with seventy-seven having already been sold and one customer wants ninety? Read More ...

Suwarrow National Park of the Cook Islands and 825km north-north-west of Rarotonga, Is this the fabled Treasure Island from the pen of Robert Louis Stevenson. Read More ...

Yeosu, a small port city at the lower tip of South Korea, is the site for this year's World Expo, an event expected to attract 8-million visitors during its three months. Read More ...

For wine buffs the historic cellars of Seppeltsfield, in the heart of South Australia's Barossa Valley, are a very, very special place indeed. Because here visitors - wine buff or not - are surrounded by casks of port from every vintage since 1878. Read More ...

We rode in ox carts and 'cyclos,' visited cat-fish farms and floating markets, sampled snake wine and exotic fruits, caught a rare, lithesome gibbon swinging from rafters above our heads, and more all the while gently cruising down the Mekong. Read More ...

Aviatrix Amelia Earhart, Lae in New Guinea, an anti-freckle cream jar, Nikumaroro, Gargoyle House, a Lockheed Electra, TIGHAR and a host of conspiracy theories: join the dots to help explain her disappearance in 1937.. Read More ...

What ever it is about trains that attracts people - and it seems the older the trains, the more the attraction - Trainworks has struck gold doing it with the largest rail museum in the Southern Hemisphere. Read More ...

The New South Wales Railways' Office of Mechanical Engineer was charged with creating a work of extraordinary opulence, a masterpiece, that, 111 years later is still the most luxurious railway carriage in Australia. Read More ...

If you believe the rumours, Conan Doyle was notorious for being involved in any number of bizarre and extraordinary incidents that made British headlines in the early 20th century. Read More ...

Komodo National Park comprises a number of islands, and is on the World Heritage List. Two of its largest islands, Komodo and Rinca, are the main habitat of the world's largest lizard, the Komodo Dragon. Read More ...

Selkirk would spend four years and four months alone on his island - only to return to England in the early 1700. Daniel Defoe heard of his remarkable story and created Robinson Crusoe. Read More ...

As remote as it is, you don't need 4WD to get here: the road is sealed for the first 70km from Alice Springs, and is gravel for the next forty - a yob filter as regulars who enjoy escaping to Arltunga describe it. Read More ...

More fool them, because The Pit Bar-B-Q on the Tamiami Trail is as American as Uncle Sam, Old Faithful and the joint's signature 'Gator Burger and Key Lime Pie.. Read More ...

When a bubbly from England's South Downs won the International Wine & Spirit Competition for World's Best Sparkling, it had some of the men of Champagne literally gagging on their Gauloises. Read More ...

The newest thing in cruise holidaying in America is in fact the oldest, with the re-launch this month of the 436-passenger American Queen, a sternwheeler that had been laid-up on the banks of the Mississippi River. Read More ...

Once was a time when the prospects of a stay at an airport hotel sent shivers down the spines of even the most-seasoned travellers: pokey rooms, planes roaring overhead, rattling windows non-existent lounges or bars. Not any more! Read More ...

Today there are still just 1,600 people live in Saba in delightful gingerbread houses that all have white-washed walls, red tile roofs and green window shutters - enforced by law.. Read More ...

After Titanic finally slipped into the depths, Harold Godfrey Lowe moved cautiously towards the site fearing his lifeboat would be capsized by passengers he could hear screaming in the water. Read More ...

Get married in Las Vegas in the courtroom that saw a procession of America's Who's Who of murder, drugs, bootlegging, stand-over tactics and illegal gambling dragged through to give evidence. Read More ...

All because like Brigadoon in the stage show and movie, for just one day of the year Bundanoon raises itself out of its early morning Highlands mist, and for that day becomes Brigadoon and all things Scottish. Read More ...

Africa - Cape Town

The "Mother City's" rich history, cultural and political independence, stunning location and mild climate qualify Cape Town as one of the world's truly great cities. Read More ...

Biddy Mason was born to a slave in Mississippi in 1818, and was given as a wedding present to wealthy plantation owner Robert Smith and his bride Read More ...

We were so impressed with such diligence we thought we’d pick the best and share some of the greatest Aussie pubs you simply must visit. Read More ...

The Royal Mail Ship, the Rhone, smashed onto rocks in the Caribbean's British Virgin Islands in 1867. Over 200 passengers perished because they'd been tied into their bunks by the crew. Read More ...

We planned on what Le Boat calls it's "Scholars' Cruise", motoring upstream to Oxford and downstream to the rowing course at Henley. Read More ...

From camping, to hiking, having a beer or simply enjoying the finer things in life (like a perfectly brewed coffee or a tall glass of wine) there is simply no better place to be. Read More ...

In 1805 hotelier Giuseppe Dal Niel rented the palaces and converted them into a hotel, giving it his nickname Danieli, and later acquiring the buildings outright. Read More ...

Some 40,000 people cross the Tower Bridge every day – local pedestrians, motorists, cyclists and, of course, the multitude of meandering tourists. So next time you are visiting London make the Tower Bridge a must – and recall the Day It Stopped A President Read More ...

The softly-spoken Ed and Helen hail from Pennsylvania, and the only time Ed tends to raise his voice is when he talks about how they "got into cruising". Read More ...

Jungle Surfing the Canopy of the Daintree rainforest is a truly insane experience where your feet don't touch the ground. Read More ...

The only thing that’s askew is that this ever-so-British-looking Thames Town, that’s complete down to a traditional fish and chip shop and street signs showing High Street, Oxford Street, Queen Street and similar, is anything but British. Read More ...

Holidaymakers looking for the out-of-the-ordinary can today do time in the one-time cells of what was once one of England’s toughest prisons, a hell-hole housed within the 5-metre thick walls of the country’s historic Oxford Castle. Read More ...

Kempton’s not one of those places that springs quickly to mind when planning a motoring holiday in Tasmania, yet the little community has had the welcome mat out since the mid-19th century. Read More ...

While there's no danger of running out of things to do in Barcelona, there is a serious risk that you'll be so overwhelmed by the number and variety of the city's attractions.  Read More ...

The Curse of Mahsuri goes back to a time none can put an exact date to, but which historians believe was probably around 1820 Read More ...

Sparks shower nearby revellers; laughter and squeals of delight fill the air and we expect to hear screams of pain too, but they must be drowned out by all the fun. Read More ...

Here are some tips on how not to be one of those who drive fellow travellers to the point of rage and temporary insanity. Read More ...

From when he was a young boy Dickens had a fascination for ghosts which culminated in arguably his most famous novel, A Christmas Carol in which the skinflint Ebenezer Scrooge changes his ways after a visit by three spirits. Read More ...

Unlike Australian and New Zealand alpine resorts this picture-postcard winter playground has a vast indoor water park, Peak Island, that’s about a two-minute walk from the Dragon Hotel. Read More ...

Amongst historical nearby attractions is Fort Scratchley that formed an integral link in our defences against potential invasion, whose canons were Australia's only ever to fire in anger. Read More ...

Italy - Umbria and Tuscany

Perugia is the capital of Umbria about halfway between Rome and Florence and it's Perugina chocolate factory makes the world-famous chocolates called Baci – Italian for "kisses". Read More ...

This captivating cruise is aboard the stylish 62-stateroom AmaLotus that’s owned by Australia's APT Touring, and which began her Mekong career only in September this year. Read More ...

The 2011 Ubud Writers and Readers Festival offered a cultural smorgasbord, or Rijsttafel, as a banquet is called in Indonesia. It was a whimsical fusion of colours, flavours and styles from Indonesia, Australia, and all the continents on the globe. Read More ...

Can't get enough of David Attenborough's Frozen Planet - then why not get off your butt and head straight to the Antarctic Peninsula. Antarctica's treacherous, spiny tendril is an odd but irresistible location. Read More ...

Costing nearly $USD 50m which came from the US Atomic Energy Commission, Savannah quickly ran into trouble over the size of her crew – and their pay. Read More ...

Near the Udayana University between Jimbaran Bay and Nusa Dua where the environment provides the right vegetation for larvae, pupae and butterflies for at least 80 species and allows 50 species of birds to flourish and fly. And there are five species of land snails and the occasional squirrel. Read More ...

The Geelong Wine Region is part of the Port Phillip Wine Zone in the State of Victoria. It's a cool climate wine region with a similar terroir to the famous French wine regions of Bordeaux and Burgundy. Read More ...

Located on top of Monte San Giuliano, Erice has a long history stretching from Ancient Greek to modern times. Much of its remaining historical architecture is from the Norman period and, strategically located, it has spectacular views to the east and south across Sicily. Read More ...

On a cloudless Mediterranean summers day, you look towards the Temple sitting at the top of a barren rock strewn pale faced ridge and, with the azure sky as a backdrop, marvel at the ingenuity of the ancient Greeks. Read More ...

It includes full shows from Paul Kelly & Neil Finn, Empire of the Sun, Wilco and The Counting Crows. Load it up, turn up the sound, and enjoy! Read More ...

Wedding Crashers team Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn team up once more for this comedy about two out of work salesmen who apply for a job at Google. Read More ...

This week our Wine Connoisseur enjoys David Hook Pinot Grigio 2012 which goes down well with a Thai beef salad and a De Iuliis LDR Shiraz 2011, excellent with a peppered scotch fillet. Read More ...

While a motorcycle performer is passing through he learns that a former lover has given birth to their son and decides to give up life on the road to try and provide for his newfound family. Read More ...

While the big screen is littered with expensive, star studded, disappointing duds, the realm of the online Sci Fi short film is better than ever. Read More ...