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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
Jul 7th, 2018 |
By Adrian Lawes
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!
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: 7th of July 2018
Tags: accommodation taxes, Australia, Cairns, Cambodia, cruise holidays, Edinburgh, Mallorca, Malta, Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, National Museums Liverpool, Queensland, Turkey, Whitby, Zimbabwe
Jun 2nd, 2018 |
By Adrian Lawes
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.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: 2nd June 2018
Tags: Australia, BA, Bradford Literature Festival, Bronte Parsonage Museum, Canada, Great Barrier Reef, Jet Airways, Korea, Lake District, Las Vegas, Malaysia, Manchester, Northern Rail, Queensland, Ramsgate, Royal Harbour History Festival, Ryanair check-in times, Singapore
Mar 31st, 2018 |
By Kaye Holland
Just About Travel lets you in what’s hot (and what’s not) in the travel industry this month
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on What’s hot: April 2018
Tags: Air Baltic, Australia, Baltimore, Beijing, Berlin, Blackpool, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Brisbane, Brits, Chengdu, China, city, Commonwealth Games, Ecuador, Europe, Greeks, Hainan, Hainan Airlines, Harry Met Sally, Hawaii, Las Vegas, Mamma Mia, Maryland, New York, pets, Queensland, Quito, Sex and the City, Singapore, Singapore Airlines, solo, solo travellers, South America, Travel, Turkey, Xian
Dec 4th, 2017 |
By The Editor
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.
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on Saving the Great Barrier Reef
Tags: Australia, Cairns, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Whitsunday Islands
Oct 14th, 2017 |
By Adrian Lawes
More tourists, more spending, smoking bans and new theme park attractions are just some of the things catching Adrian’s attention this week
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: 14th October 2017
Tags: Australia, Cairns Aquarium and Reef Research Centre, Castle Campbell, Cornwall, Cuina Oberta, Doune Castle, Dunblane Cathedral, Historic Environment Scotland, IATA, Inchmahome Priory, Movie World, Norwegian, Queensland, Scotland, Singapore, smoking on Thai beaches, South Africa, spain, Stirling Castle, Tate St Ives, Thailand, travel insurance coverage, valencia, Valencia Intramurs
Apr 8th, 2017 |
By Adrian Lawes
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.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: April 8th 2017
Tags: Australia, Chile, Drayton Manor Theme Park, Fraser Island, Greenwich, Holiday Inn Express, India, India e-Visa, Malaga, Malaga Picasso Museum, Menorca, Museum of the American Revolution, Philadelphia, Quebec City, Queensland, Rendez-vous 2017, Sandals, Scottish Seabird Centre, spain, Stansted, Thomas Land, Unique Caribbean Holidays Limited
Nov 19th, 2015 |
By Kaye Holland
Vic Quayle – author of Waltzing Matilda Around Australia: Adventure before Dementia – shares his travel highs and lows with Just About About Travel readers
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Where the experts holiday: Vic Quayle, travel author
Tags: A High in the Andes, Atacama, Australian Outback, Bungle Bungles National Park, France, Isle of Man, Morocco, Patagonia, Purnululu National Park, Queensland, South America, Southern Africa, Sydney
Oct 1st, 2015 |
By Kaye Holland
Just About Travel tells you what’s hot in the travel world right now
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on What’s hot: October 2015
Tags: Australia, British Airways, Can We Live Here?, Costa Rica, Florida, Fuji Five Lakes, Great Barrier Reef, Italy, Japan, Kissimmee, London, Peru, Philadelphia, Queensland, South America, Tuscany, Vienna, Washington DC
Sep 8th, 2015 |
By Kaye Holland
Travel bible, Lonely Planet, has selected the top three experiences that should be on your “bucket list”
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Bucket list ideas: the top three places to see in your lifetime
Tags: Angkor Wat, Asia, Australia, Bucket List, Cambodia, Great Barrier Reef, Machu Picchu, Peru, Queensland, Siem Reap, Southeast Asia, top three, Travel
Feb 22nd, 2015 |
By The Editor
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.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Forget cross country skiing. Try melon skiing instead
Tags: Chinchilla, Chinchilla Melon Festival, Queensland
Nov 13th, 2014 |
By The Editor
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.
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on Encounter with a platypus
Tags: Eungella National Park, Finch Hatton Gorge, Queensland, Rainforest Scuba
Sep 10th, 2014 |
By The Editor
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.
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on More loggerheads than ever
Tags: Bundaberg, Great Barrier Reef, loggerhead turtles, Mon Repos Conservation Park, Queensland, Queensland Parks and Wildlife Services, turtle conservation
Jan 28th, 2014 |
By The Editor
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,
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Our tips for 2014
Tags: Bulgaria, France, Hull, Mexico, pembrokeshire, Queensland, South Korea, Tunisia, Turkey, Washington DC
Jan 24th, 2014 |
By The Editor
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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Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on Bats about jellyfish
Tags: Australia, Bat Cleft, Queensland, Underwater World Mooloolaba SEALIFE
Dec 9th, 2013 |
By The Editor
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.
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on Celebrating the Daintree rainforest
Tags: Australia, Daintree Rainforest, Kuranda Scenic Railway, Queensland, Skyrail Rainforest Cableway
Jun 14th, 2012 |
By The Editor
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
Posted in Travel news, Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Calling all cowboys and cockies!
Tags: Australia, Cloncurry, Mt Isa, Outback, Queensland
Jun 13th, 2012 |
By The Editor
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
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Top 10 Queensland experiences
Tags: Australia, Brisbane, Fraser Island, Great Barrier Reef, Mt Isa, New South Wales, Port Douglas, Queensland, Whitsundays
May 17th, 2012 |
By The Editor
Australia accommodates everyone’s idea of a perfect holiday, from four-year-olds to grannies, reports Pippa Jacks
Posted in Travel destinations, Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on One size fits all in Australia: part two
Tags: Alice Springs, Australia, Ayers Rock, Great Barrier Reef, Hamilton Island, Outback, Queensland, The Red Centre, Uluru, Whitsundays
Nov 8th, 2011 |
By The Editor
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
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on Famous for fun
Tags: Australia, Gold Coast, Queensland, Tamborine Rainforest
Nov 13th, 2010 |
By The Editor
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
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Where the experts holiday: Peter Danford
Tags: Australia, Burma, China, Nepal, Queensland
May 23rd, 2010 |
By The Editor
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
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on The Wizard of Oz
Tags: Australia, Melbourne, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Perth, Queensland, Sydney, Uluru, Victoria, Western Australia
Mar 2nd, 2010 |
By The Editor
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…
Posted in Travel destinations, Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Antipodean adventures for all ages
Tags: Australiaw, New Zealand, Perth, Queensland, Sydney, Western Australia