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Don’t Eat the Snake

20
Oct
1

Travelling and reporting: responsible tourism takes its lead from responsible travel writing. Leading from the front, travel writing is supposed to set an example for those who follow. What happens if it’s a bad example? Did you read about that lovely pristine Thai island a while ago, the one that no one visited? It was […]

Category: FeaturesTravelling Written by Tom Neal Tacker 0 Comments

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Getting Off the Great Ocean Road

17
Oct

Behind Victoria’s world famous Great Ocean Road lays another country. A slight ripple on the water gives it away, though it could be a duck, a grebe perhaps? The small hairy back moves purposefully forward, dives and disappears. Not a duck or a grebe. It’s a platypus.

Category: Wundering Written by Tom Neal Tacker 0 Comments

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Winding a Way in the Waipara

16
Oct
1

There’s more depth to the Kiwi wine scene than bucket loads of Sauvignon Blanc. The Marlborough region is dumping wine in huge quantities on the global market. Credit given where credit is due; some of the gooseberry infused S.B. from the northern parts of the South Island is eminently quaffable.

Category: EpicureanFeatures Written by Tom Neal Tacker 0 Comments

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