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Compagnie du Ponant Joins Virtuoso Network

Compagnie du Ponant Joins Virtuoso Network

Compagnie du Ponant and luxury travel network Virtuoso have a new preferred supplier relationship. The French Compagnie du Ponant operates five yachts that visit 450 ports in 81 countries. Virtuoso, a by-invitation-only organization, comprises over 330 agencies with more than 7,200 travel advisors in 20 countries in North and South America, the Caribbean, Australia and […]

Compagnie du Ponant Joins Virtuoso Network

Compagnie du Ponant Joins Virtuoso Network

Compagnie du Ponant and luxury travel network Virtuoso have a new preferred supplier relationship. The French Compagnie du Ponant operates five yachts that visit 450 ports in 81 countries. Virtuoso, a by-invitation-only organization, comprises over 330 agencies with more than 7,200 travel advisors in 20 countries in North and South America, the Caribbean, Australia and […]

Guidelines for Passenger Landings on Spitzbergen

Guidelines for Passenger Landings on Spitzbergen

Passengers go ashore from Zodiac in Spitsbergen (R Eime) The Association for Arctic Expedition Cruise Operators (AECO) has presented guidelines for landings on Spitzbergen – known as the “Svalbard Site Guidelines.” Nine site-specific guidelines for locations along the west coast of Spitsbergen are available. They can be found at www.aeco.no/guidelines. “The guidelines give information about […]

Guidelines for Passenger Landings on Spitzbergen

Guidelines for Passenger Landings on Spitzbergen

Passengers go ashore from Zodiac in Spitsbergen (R Eime) The Association for Arctic Expedition Cruise Operators (AECO) has presented guidelines for landings on Spitzbergen – known as the “Svalbard Site Guidelines.” Nine site-specific guidelines for locations along the west coast of Spitsbergen are available. They can be found at www.aeco.no/guidelines. “The guidelines give information about […]

Byron Bay community spirit

Byron Bay community spirit

by Roderick Eime in Byron Bay Every Wednesday at 7.45am, guests at The Byron at Byron [www.thebyronatbyron.com.au] gather for executive chef, Gavin Hughes’ farmers’ market tour. As a testament to their creativity and social acumen, Hughes involves in-house guests in his own weekly shop for fresh local produce at the popular local market thronged by […]

Byron Bay community spirit

Byron Bay community spirit

by Roderick Eime in Byron Bay Every Wednesday at 7.45am, guests at The Byron at Byron [www.thebyronatbyron.com.au] gather for executive chef, Gavin Hughes’ farmers’ market tour. As a testament to their creativity and social acumen, Hughes involves in-house guests in his own weekly shop for fresh local produce at the popular local market thronged by […]

Food, Wine & Fishing in the New Year

Food, Wine & Fishing in the New Year

How about kicking off the New Year with a seafood safari across the Great Australian Bight? Revel in a sumptuous lunch at one of the McLaren’s finest wineries, sample the many delights of famed Kangaroo Island and wash down oysters with champagne in beautiful Coffin Bay.  Then mix-in some cage diving with great white sharks, […]

Food, Wine & Fishing in the New Year

Food, Wine & Fishing in the New Year

How about kicking off the New Year with a seafood safari across the Great Australian Bight? Revel in a sumptuous lunch at one of the McLaren’s finest wineries, sample the many delights of famed Kangaroo Island and wash down oysters with champagne in beautiful Coffin Bay.  Then mix-in some cage diving with great white sharks, […]

Hooked on paradise: PNG cruise

Hooked on paradise: PNG cruise

SHOCK set in the moment my fishing guide Ben locked a look of horror on me after frantically grasping the fishing line. One of six large hooks on the popper lure had pierced straight through the side of my left hand. I’d been barbed by a barracuda! And that barracuda, with protruding needle-like teeth and […]

Hooked on paradise: PNG cruise

Hooked on paradise: PNG cruise

SHOCK set in the moment my fishing guide Ben locked a look of horror on me after frantically grasping the fishing line. One of six large hooks on the popper lure had pierced straight through the side of my left hand. I’d been barbed by a barracuda! And that barracuda, with protruding needle-like teeth and […]