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A first timer cruiser’s gourmet cruise through New Zealand

Oceania Cruises’ refurbished flagship Regatta provides a luxurious base from which to explore New Zealand, finds first-time cruiser Fiona Ralph. While I’ve travelled the length and breadth of New Zealand by road and air, I […]

WORDS BY Cruise Passenger . Sep 15 2020
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Wish upon a star – a dark park in the Central West

Check out the dark sky of the Warrumbungles as it celebrates StarFest in 2020. Virtual option available! The night skies open with a field of stars stretching as far as the eye can see at […]

WORDS BY Bernadette Chua . Sep 8 2020
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Beautiful Broome – the gateway to the Kimberley

The gateway to the Kimberley region of Western Australia, Broome is wild, wide and wonderful. Natasha Dragun takes the pulse of this frontier town built on pearls. It’s dusk in Broome, and I’m eating oysters […]

WORDS BY Cruise Passenger . Sep 8 2020
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A weekend detox at Gwinganna Lifestyle Retreat

The headaches are beginning so I’m skolling cups of herbal tea and aloe vera flavoured water like they’re bottles of Veuve. Detox tea, dandelion tea, peppermint tea: maybe they’ll help with the ache behind my […]

WORDS BY Cruise Passenger . Sep 1 2020
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The adventurer’s guide to Tasmania’s east coast

It’s a top choice for lovers of the great outdoors but Craig Tansley finds he has parts of Tasmania’s east coast all to himself. It’s Saturday afternoon in the middle of the summer holidays in […]

WORDS BY Cruise Passenger . Aug 25 2020
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The Silver Screen comes to Outback Broken Hill

Priscilla and Mad Max are the stars of Broken Hill’s showreel. Katrina Lobley reminisces with the locals at our Hollywood of the Outback. From the moment Yorkshireman Adrian Bennett first visited Silverton in the NSW […]

WORDS BY Cruise Passenger . Aug 25 2020
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A piece of pie – take a pie trail around the Southern Highlands

The rolling hills and the unspoilt bush of the Southern Highlands is one of the best weekend getaways. Bernadette Chua discovers this lovely region, filled with quaint English villages and pies. The Southern Highlands, just a […]

WORDS BY Bernadette Chua . Aug 18 2020
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Bread and butter – eat your way around New South Wales

It’s Aussie Artisan Week – a time to celebrate our amazing army of talented trades people. Hannah Warren talks to some of our culinary kings and queens. Pepe Saya is Australia’s butter baron. He has […]

WORDS BY Cruise Passenger . Aug 18 2020
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A gastronomic tour of the Kimberley – a voyage with Luke Nguyen

Celebrity chef Luke Nguyen, famous for his Sydney-based Vietnamese restaurant, Red Lantern, has partnered with APT once again, to take guests on a gastronomic tour of the Kimberley. Luke will join APT’s 14-day Kimberley Coastal […]

WORDS BY Bernadette Chua . Aug 10 2020
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Take me home, country roads – a weekend in Tamworth

The Big Golden Guitar, the shining beacon of the Australian country music festival, glimmers in the sun, greeting visitors to Tamworth as they roll on in via the New England Highway. On the traveller’s way […]

WORDS BY Bernadette Chua . Aug 10 2020
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The Hunter Valley wine that doesn’t give you a hangover

Entering through the vine intertwined tunnel is the first taste of the light and airy hangover-free wonderland created by Tamburlaine Organic Wines. “Straight through to the chapel please”. How celestial. As the delicate whites with […]

WORDS BY Cruise Passenger . Aug 3 2020
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