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A NEAR-SIX WEEKS CRUISING NEW YORK TO SYDNEY

A NEAR-SIX WEEKS CRUISING NEW YORK TO SYDNEY

SAIL out of New York on July 25 next year and after a whole 40-days pampering aboard the luxury Dawn Princess through the Caribbean, Mexican Riviera, Los Angeles, Hawaii, Tahiti and the South Pacific, cruise majestically into Sydney Harbour as the city welcomes Spring 2010. And if you book this near-six weeks of indulgence through […]

Frohe Ostern! (Happy Easter!)

Frohe Ostern! (Happy Easter!)

Frohe Ostern! (Happy Easter!) is an impressionistic history of an Easter camping ritual on the Murray River.  It is an exquisite celebration by director Anna Jeffries about German migrants becoming three generations of Australians. More than 50 family and friends of German background have camped in the same spot on Australia’s Murray River every Easter […]

Frohe Ostern! (Happy Easter!)

Frohe Ostern! (Happy Easter!)

Frohe Ostern! (Happy Easter!) is an impressionistic history of an Easter camping ritual on the Murray River.  It is an exquisite celebration by director Anna Jeffries about German migrants becoming three generations of Australians. More than 50 family and friends of German background have camped in the same spot on Australia’s Murray River every Easter […]

Not just an AFL football stadium

Not just an AFL football stadium

Your FREE travel briefs for w/c March 30 2009-03-27  TRAVEL BRIEFS By John Crook  Gallipoli and the Danube A tour package from Istanbul to Budapest offers the opportunity to be part of the moving Anzac Day dawn service, along with an eight-night river-cruise, aboard m.s. Amalyra from Rousse in Bulgaria to Budapest.  This tour also […]

Not just an AFL football stadium

Not just an AFL football stadium

Your FREE travel briefs for w/c March 30 2009-03-27  TRAVEL BRIEFS By John Crook  Gallipoli and the Danube A tour package from Istanbul to Budapest offers the opportunity to be part of the moving Anzac Day dawn service, along with an eight-night river-cruise, aboard m.s. Amalyra from Rousse in Bulgaria to Budapest.  This tour also […]

HISTORIC OAKVALE HAS PLENTY OF SURPRISES

HISTORIC OAKVALE HAS PLENTY OF SURPRISES

Wc30Mar09 david ellis ONE of the oldest working wineries in Australia, and certainly amongst the most interesting to visit, is Oakvale at Pokolbin in the shadow of the Hunter Valley’s famous Brokenback Range. First planted to grapes by an industrious expatriate Scottish coal miner, William Elliott in 1893 the former dairy farm has been owned […]

HISTORIC OAKVALE HAS PLENTY OF SURPRISES

HISTORIC OAKVALE HAS PLENTY OF SURPRISES

Wc30Mar09 david ellis ONE of the oldest working wineries in Australia, and certainly amongst the most interesting to visit, is Oakvale at Pokolbin in the shadow of the Hunter Valley’s famous Brokenback Range. First planted to grapes by an industrious expatriate Scottish coal miner, William Elliott in 1893 the former dairy farm has been owned […]

Cruise Melanesia with Coral Princess Cruises in 2009 – ‘The Timeless Paradise’

Cruise Melanesia with Coral Princess Cruises in 2009 – ‘The Timeless Paradise’

Coral Princess Cruises’ newest brochure lassos some of the farthest-flung islands of one of its most remote and exotic cruise destinations: Melanesia. The 13 or 14-night expedition-style voyages aboard the luxurious small ship Oceanic Discoverer thread their way along the necklace of islands and nations between Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu. The sparkling collection of […]

Cruise Melanesia with Coral Princess Cruises in 2009 – ‘The Timeless Paradise’

Cruise Melanesia with Coral Princess Cruises in 2009 – ‘The Timeless Paradise’

Coral Princess Cruises’ newest brochure lassos some of the farthest-flung islands of one of its most remote and exotic cruise destinations: Melanesia. The 13 or 14-night expedition-style voyages aboard the luxurious small ship Oceanic Discoverer thread their way along the necklace of islands and nations between Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu. The sparkling collection of […]

BABS’ 50-DAYS GETTING TO THE CHURCH ON TIME

BABS’ 50-DAYS GETTING TO THE CHURCH ON TIME

david ellis WHEN a girl’s asked to be bridesmaid to her best friend, it’s important she get herself to the church on time. But that can take on a whole new meaning when our bridesmaid lives in Wales, and the church is a near-20,000 kilometres away in Brisbane, Australia – and she refuses to fly. […]