Posts Tagged ‘
Australia ’
Feb 7th, 2021 |
By The Editor
Why this Australian attitude concerns me is that it might become the thinking in other countries.
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Vaccination may not be the way
Tags: Australia, coronavirus vaccinations, Vaccination as a holiday booking stimulant
Aug 10th, 2020 |
By The Editor
Unlike most museums this is one is underwater and, unless you are proficient in scuba or diving, you will be unable to visit it.
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on Only visit if you can swim
Tags: Australia, Great Barrier Reef, MOUA, Museum of Underwater Art, Queensland, Townsville
Jun 18th, 2020 |
By The Editor
The Australian tourism minister yesterday said that the Australian border might stay closed until next year for short term visitors.
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on Forget Australia this year?
Tags: Australia, Beijing, coronavirus, coronavirus second wave, New Zealand, Qantas, South Korea
Apr 29th, 2020 |
By The Editor
It was today – 29th of April 1770 – that Cook and his mariners landed at what he subsequently called Botany Bay.
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on On white men first seeing eastern Australia
Tags: 250th anniversary of Cook reaching Australia, Australia, Botany Bay, Captain James Cook, coronavirus, indigenous Australians
Mar 25th, 2020 |
By The Editor
The closure of so many attractions and events will have a severe economic impact on destinations, local economies and people.
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on The economic impact of the shutdown
Tags: Australia, economic impact of tourism, NSW, Sydney, Vivid Sydney
Mar 7th, 2020 |
By The Editor
With ships almost idle, some cruise companies have built up goodwill by offering free cruises to volunteer firefighters in Australia to thank them for their recent efforts.
Posted in Travel rumblings |
Comments Off on If there is a silver lining…
Tags: Australia, bush fires, cruise holidays, cruises
Mar 1st, 2020 |
By Kaye Holland
Just About Travel tells you what’s hot (and what’s not) in the travel world right now
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on What’s hot: March 2020
Tags: Airlie Beach, Australia, Austria, caffeine, California, Celebrity Apex, Easter, football, Great Barrier Reef, Hamilton Island, Holy Week, Italy, Madrid, Munich, Seville, solo travel, solo travellers, spain, Vienna
Feb 15th, 2020 |
By Kaye Holland
Take your kids on an amazing adventure to these inventive ideas, and brainstorm your own offbeat activities…
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Top 10 fun ideas
Tags: adventure, Angkor Wat, Australia, elephants, family travel, half term, Mexico, Siem Reap, Thailand, Yucatan peninsula
Feb 1st, 2020 |
By Kaye Holland
Just About Travel tells you what’s hot (and what’s not) in the travel world right now…
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on What’s hot: February 2020
Tags: app, Australia, Bogota, Caribbean, Colombia, Europe, Faroe Islands, island, Jamaica, Japan, Palm Springs, skiing, Travel, UK
Jan 26th, 2020 |
By The Editor
This year it is a tinged with sorrow for the effects of the bushfires which are only out of the headlines at the moment due to the efforts of many thousands of volunteer firefighters who have been out combatting them.
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on Australia Day
Tags: AAT Kings, Australia, Edward, High Country Comeback, volunteer firefighters
Jan 9th, 2020 |
By The Editor
But Australia is a huge country. Much is still open and waiting for your visit.
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on Visiting Australia
Tags: Australia, bush fires, travel advisories
Jan 3rd, 2020 |
By The Editor
Some fire-fighters say that they sleep fitfully as they rest with one ear forever listening to their pagers and smart phones.
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on Protecting Australia
Tags: Australia, bush fires, fire-fighting volunteers
Dec 30th, 2019 |
By The Editor
Headlines like “South coast holidaymakers may be trapped” have resulted in a smaller number of Aussies travelling this holiday time in Australia.
Posted in Travel rumblings |
Comments Off on Which way, Australia?
Tags: Australia, bush fires, holidaying in Australia, Kylie Minogue, NSW, SA, Victoria, WA
Nov 30th, 2019 |
By The Editor
Will local authorities in the UK follow their Australian counterparts and set up free sites to attract caravanners?
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on Seducing caravanners to visit
Tags: Australia, Babinda, Caravanning, free caravan sites
Nov 29th, 2019 |
By Kaye Holland
It’s a challenge to travel anywhere without leaving a carbon footprint, but by adding more planet-healthy choices to your travel diet, you can help to keep yours to an absolute minimum. Here’s how…
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Travelling on a carbon diet
Tags: Australia, Ecuador, energy, Lonely Planet, Mauritius, Nepal, planet, Travel
Nov 1st, 2019 |
By Kaye Holland
Just About Travel gives you the low-down on what’s hot (and what’s not) in the travel world right now
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on What’s hot: November 2019
Tags: amsterdam, Australia, Barbados, Christmas, Cruise, holiday, Indian Ocean, Italy, Maldives, Rihanna, Scandinavian Mountains, Sydney, Sydney Harbour Bridge, vacation
Oct 26th, 2019 |
By The Editor
Will birdwatching, looking at rock art and watching the sun come up over the monolith be enough to keep 400,000 people coming each year?
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on The Uluru dilemma
Tags: Australia, tourism offers, Uluru
Aug 31st, 2019 |
By The Editor
In Paris the deputy mayor wants to ban tour coaches. In Saudi a theme park is planned and in australia, the Great Barrier Reef’s long term outlook has been downgraded.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: August 31st 2019
Tags: Aer Lingus, Alabama, Australia, Caribbean, Crap Travel, Great Barrier Reef, Hurricane Dorian, Ireland, Norwegian, Paris, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia
May 10th, 2019 |
By The Editor
The Nullarbor Links was built “to complement and enhance the tourism industry…by providing travellers with an additional attraction and hence a reason to spend more time and money in the region.”
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on Chasing the sun
Tags: Australia, Chasing the Sun, Nullarbor Links
Mar 1st, 2019 |
By Kaye Holland
The regular monthly column that keeps you abreast of some of the changes in travel starts with a story about Nicaragua
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on What’s hot: March 2019
Tags: Australia, Darwin, Israel, Manchester Airport, Nicaragua, Northern Territory, Route 66, Tel Aviv, UK, Uzbekistan
Feb 17th, 2019 |
By The Editor
Without the airline frequency, many visitors won’t have time to visit Alice Springs unless that is specifically a place they want to visit.
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on Two sides of a coin
Tags: Alice Springs, Australia, Northern Territory, Phillip Island, Victoria
Feb 13th, 2019 |
By Lucy Taylor
Over 650,000 Britons visit Australia from the UK each year. Most of the time there are no problems but Lucy Taylor of LY Lawyers warns of some offences that might land you in gaol.
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on Don’t do “time” in Australia
Tags: Australia, LY Lawyers
Dec 29th, 2018 |
By The Editor
Adrian considers – amongst other things – why train lines should experience engineering works over Christmas, volcano tourism and Brexit.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: 29th December 2018
Tags: Australia, Cairngorms, drones, Indonesia, Louvre, Mt Etna, Paris, railway engineering works, Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race, volcano tourism
Dec 29th, 2018 |
By The Editor
One bush property had an old petrol (it might have been diesel) tank that acted as its letter box.
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on A petrol tank as a post box!
Tags: Australia, letterboxes, postboxes
Dec 7th, 2018 |
By Kaye Holland
Just because you’re a seasoned traveller doesn’t mean you have any reason to get jaded in 2019. There are plenty of exciting new openings coming next year to inspire you to plan your next trip…
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Best new openings
Tags: America, Asia, Australia, Best in Travel, Dubai, Dublin, Ireland, LA, Lonely Planet, Los Angeles, Malaysia, Norway, Oslo, Thailand, UAE
Dec 3rd, 2018 |
By The Editor
This morning I am giving you a year’s notice of what will potentially become one of the Australia’s top tourist attractions. Today booking opens for a brand new luxury holiday.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Being first
Tags: Adeliade, Australia, Brisbane, Great Southern, luxury rail holidays
Nov 21st, 2018 |
By The Editor
What surprised me was the vast numbers of people who had taken time out from the weekends to venture into a hot sun to visit this trail.
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on On the Arcadia art trail
Tags: Arcadia, art trails, Australia, NSW
Sep 13th, 2018 |
By The Editor
Luckily for the animal, Tourism NSW and Tourism Australia it is only in NSW that koalas seem threatened to extinction if the report is to be believed. And it shouldn’t be.
Posted in travel, Travel destinations |
Comments Off on Koalas in NSW
Tags: Australia, koalas, NSW, WWF Australia