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Yorkshire is a small town north of London. That is one of many things that Adrian learnt this week The phrase was used on a TV show so it must be right!

The Lake District, a new Bronte trail, the big Ramsagate festival and the arrival of Las Vegas in London to bring some pizzazz to the capital are some of Adrian’s thoughts this week.

Just About Travel lets you in what’s hot (and what’s not) in the travel industry this month

Initial results suggest that this concept is working meaning not only that it might be able to be used at other threatened reefs around the world but that visitors to Queensland will be able to enjoy the reef for years to come.

More tourists, more spending, smoking bans and new theme park attractions are just some of the things catching Adrian’s attention this week

Tall ships in Greenwich, a pygmy tribe in Uganda and a possible reduction in the number of properties in Menorca are some stories capturing Adrian’s attention this week.

Vic Quayle – author of Waltzing Matilda Around Australia: Adventure before Dementia – shares his travel highs and lows with Just About About Travel readers

Just About Travel tells you what’s hot in the travel world right now

Travel bible, Lonely Planet, has selected the top three experiences that should be on your “bucket list”

I could have been squelching – along with 18,000 other people – through 20 tonnes of melons last weekend if I had only known about it.

the highlight of this underwater attraction in Finch Hatton Gorge is a possible encounter with an Australian icon, the platypus – one of the world’s only egg-laying mammals.

Last season, as many as 350 rare loggerhead turtles came ashore onto beaches along Australia’s Southern Great Barrier Reef region to lay their eggs.

Each year, Just about Travel asks its writers for their highlights and tips for the coming year. Because we are individuals just like all our readers, few ever agree with each other. That is partially because they get inspired by where they have been just like you do. In alphabetical order then, here are the destinations that our writers are tipping for this year as spots that you should seriously consider visiting,

The Australian state of Queensland is a holiday hotspot much favoured by Aussies who head there for a winter sun destination and by Japanese, Chinese and Taiwanese who go there any time of the year. Apart from the sunshine, the beaches and the warmth, Queensland is known for being the state adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef. Many also know of the oldest rain forest in the world – Daintree. But it is home to some other natural attractions that many visitors don’t know about.
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Today, the Daintree rainforest in Australia’s state of Queensland celebrates the fact that for the last 25 years it has been a World Heritage Site.

Fuel up the 4WD and get ready, because Queensland’s outback is about to explode into a dirt busting riot of colour, cowboys, horse races and oddly enough, operas, as the state gears up for a calendar of events designed to put the best of the Aussie state’s country folk, and the beasts behind them, on show

As Queensland week – seven days of celebration of the state’s separation from New South Wales – closes for another year, we asked our friends at Tourism Queensland for the ultimate Top 10 Queensland experiences

Australia accommodates everyone’s idea of a perfect holiday, from four-year-olds to grannies, reports Pippa Jacks

UPDATE: 11/11/2011 The 2018 Commonwealth Games will be held in the Gold Coast making it the fifth time that an Australian city will have hosted the Games.This is the slogan for the Gold Coast

American Peter Danford owns and operates The China Guide – a Beijing based travel company specialising in custom private tours around China. The father of three who has travelled throughout Asia for over 20 years, spoke to CD Traveller about mysterious Myanmar, Mooloolaba and, of course, the Middle Kingdom

Australia is known for more than just its famous exports: Fosters, XXXX and Neighbours. CD-Traveller gives you an overview of the land down under

Last month CD Traveller reader, T Fleetwood, wrote in for some recommendations on what fifty somethings should see and do Down Under. Always aiming to please, we asked the experts –Tourism Australia and Tourism New Zealand –for a few ideas. Here’s what they had to say…