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EUR rail tickets explained
Rail travel explainedWhich rail ticket to ride? With more than 300,000 Australians travelling on trains in Europe this year, most will have asked, or will have to ask, which is the best option — rail passes or point-to-point tickets. Rail Plus, the largest supplier of rail passes and tickets in Australia, says it depends on […]
WORLD’S RAREST TOUR – TO A COUNTRY THAT DOESN’T EXIST
A COUNTRY that doesn’t exist is a highlight of a 30-day tour of the Horn of Africa with off-the-beaten-track Far Horizons in January next year. And although all of the world’s major powers say there’s no such place, guests on this tour will find that Somaliland is building a strong tourism infrastructure, including first-class hotels […]
WORLD’S RAREST TOUR – TO A COUNTRY THAT DOESN’T EXIST
A COUNTRY that doesn’t exist is a highlight of a 30-day tour of the Horn of Africa with off-the-beaten-track Far Horizons in January next year. And although all of the world’s major powers say there’s no such place, guests on this tour will find that Somaliland is building a strong tourism infrastructure, including first-class hotels […]
NEW YORK IS LIKE A MAGNET TO AUSTRALIAN TRAVELLERS
Australians continue their love affair with New York City despite the economy. Aussie visitation to the Big Apple reached nearly 200,000 last year and continues to increase in the face of the slowing global tourism according to Manhattan’s Beacon Hotel General Manager, Tom Travers A 19 year veteran of the 260 room hotel hosts more […]
NEW YORK IS LIKE A MAGNET TO AUSTRALIAN TRAVELLERS
Australians continue their love affair with New York City despite the economy. Aussie visitation to the Big Apple reached nearly 200,000 last year and continues to increase in the face of the slowing global tourism according to Manhattan’s Beacon Hotel General Manager, Tom Travers A 19 year veteran of the 260 room hotel hosts more […]
A Hotel in a Room
Could you call it a hotel if all the rooms are located in different cities around the world? The ambitious people behind the Hotel Room, which opened it’s first property in the bohemian Kallio district of Helsinki, claims you can. A one-room hotel, Hotel Room opened its first facilities in the bohemian Kallio neighborhood in […]
A Hotel in a Room
Could you call it a hotel if all the rooms are located in different cities around the world? The ambitious people behind the Hotel Room, which opened it’s first property in the bohemian Kallio district of Helsinki, claims you can. A one-room hotel, Hotel Room opened its first facilities in the bohemian Kallio neighborhood in […]
Orion OPERA UNDER THE STARS® Kimberley voyage 2009
Opera With The Stars Under The Stars A grand night of operatic proportions awaits guests from the five star expedition cruise ship Orion at the conclusion of its Kimberley Expedition voyage in late August 2009. Having absorbed the visual drama of the spectacular Kimberley coast with its vast tidal changes, emerging reefs, swirling waters, dramatic […]
Orion OPERA UNDER THE STARS® Kimberley voyage 2009
Opera With The Stars Under The Stars A grand night of operatic proportions awaits guests from the five star expedition cruise ship Orion at the conclusion of its Kimberley Expedition voyage in late August 2009. Having absorbed the visual drama of the spectacular Kimberley coast with its vast tidal changes, emerging reefs, swirling waters, dramatic […]
GRIM START TO A SOUTH PACIFIC PARADISE
david Ellis IF it was any consolation to those French deportees foolhardy enough to misbehave so badly in the one-time penal colony of New Caledonia as to warrant execution, it was that they went to their deaths on one of the most famous guillotines in French history. Because when it became obvious to the commandant […]
