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The little Port of Eden, near where I live in Far South New South Wales (NSW), is a busy working seaport. Situated on Twofold Bay, halfway between Sydney and Melbourne, it is one of the deepest natural harbours in the Southern Hemisphere. This makes it ideal for large vessels – including the Royal Australian Navy […]

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One of the things I love about India – and which always surprises me – is the extent and beauty of the countryside. As of April 2023, India was estimated to have overtaken China as the most populous country in the world. In spite of that, you can drive great distances through an agrarian landscape, […]

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I loved everything about Greece. I love Greek coffee and food. I loved the landscape and the architecture, and the history layered within it all. I loved how the place names were both exotic and vaguely familiar from long-forgotten school lessons. And, I loved the variety that was in every day of the small-group tour […]

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Do you find you tend to ignore your own backyard? I often do. I’ll go to great lengths and distances to visit places afar, while making little time for sights closer to home. But, away from the more-populated coast, country New South Wales (like country Queensland) has some attractive old towns, with interesting histories, and […]

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Like other Indian cities, Madurai in the southern state of Tamil Nadu offers up some magnificent palace and temple architecture. But, it was the life in the streets that I loved best. I was travelling around South India with a small group. We had driven to Madurai from Thanjavur the day before, stopping to visit […]

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