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Ocean Magazine – Ocean Cruising – Issue 48
Feature: AzamaraNews: Hapag-Lloyd, Ponant, Seabourn
MSC Bike Experience
Pedal your way around northern Europe with MSC’s fun, eco-friendly tours This northern summer season, travellers enjoying MSC Magnifica’s northern European adventures will be able to pedal their way through the region’s enchanting landscapes and cities with the new fun and eco-friendly MSC Bike Experience. From 15 April to 1 September 2013, MSC Magnifica’s diverse […]
A QUAD OF BUBBLY FLAVOURS – THAT’S COOL
Wc04Mar13 David Ellis CHARDONNAY backbone makes forthis great party-room celebratory wine. IF you’ve celebrations in mind, a Chardonnay-based bubbly that’s hard to look past is Chandon’s 2009 Blanc de Blancs from Victoria’s cool climate Yarra Valley, King Valley and Macedon. A year that most remember for Victoria’s tragic bushfires, 2009 was also a standout one […]
APT adds Variety Voyager to its luxury small ship cruising
APT has released a preview brochure for luxury small ship cruising of Europe, Scandinavia, Greece, The Black Sea and Egypt/Jordan next year. The 57-suite Island Sky and the 36-cabin Variety Voyager are the vessels operating the cruises. Launch of APT’s Luxury Small Ship preview brochure follows the Australian company’s entry to small ship expedition cruising […]
NSW HIGHLANDS’ ALL HISTORY AND HERITAGE
David Ellis WITH this the 150th year since Bowral and Moss Vale were founded side-by-side in the NSW Southern Highlands in 1863, the folk there reckon they’ve plenty to celebrate. And they’re doing it with twelve months of festivities commemorating memorable Highlands’ “firsts,” and of tales of convicts, characters and explorers, the more nefarious like […]
Struth! New life in the old oak
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that in France, a forward-thinking winery has planted a thousand oak trees to be used for making barrels to store its wines that won’t be made for around a near-200 years. And not any ordinary oak trees: they’ve […]
SPECIAL OFFER ON LUXURIOUS RIVER CLOUD II DANUBE CRUISE: 8-24 August 2013
– Savings of up to AUD$1,900* per person on 16 night voyage – Sea Cloud Cruises is offering special combination fares on a leisurely 16 night Danube cruise aboard the elegant 88-guest River Cloud II. Departing 8 August 2013 from Bucharest to Passau, this voyage takes in the best of the Danube in summertime – […]
Harvey World Travel Hot Deals: Inca Trail, Las Vegas, Sydney, Yangtze, Indochina
01 March 2013 Siem Reap to Saigon aboard RV AmaLotus with APT Trek the Inca Trail in Peru – Save $50 per person Take off on an adventure to Peru and trek the famous Inca Trail, rated by many as one of the top five treks in the world! Experience the spellbinding mountain scenery and […]
HOLLAND BY BIKE FOR FAMILIES – Escape Travel
FIELDS OF GREEN AND WINDMILLS IN HOLLAND A FAMILY that travels together stays together, so take the kids on a cycling adventure amidst green fields and windmills in Holland. Escape Travel has an eight-day Holland Family Barge & Bicycle tour, which is led by UTracks, that will have adults and kids pedalling to the cities of […]
Elmo’s World Tour – Escape Travel
TICKLE ME ELMO COMES TO MELBOURNE KIDS will be tickled red this July, when Elmo and his Sesame Street friends come to Melbourne for Elmo’s World Tour. Escape Travel has made it easy for parents to book family tickets for the all-singing and all-dancing event, with this four-day holiday package that includes tickets and accommodation […]
