Australia
Road Trips
Teens
Top Tips for road trips with teens
We’ve grown up with road trips, from annual trips to our favourite camp sites, to visiting grandparents on the NSW north coast. After all the family road trip an Aussie tradition, so it’s hardly unusual, although not without challenges. When the kids were younger we had to worry about toilet stops and motion sickness, boredom […]
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Asia
Travel
Taiwan’s East Coast, the California of Asia?
Taiwan, famous for dumplings, tea & quirky restaurants but on Taiwan’s east coast you’ll find a side to the country that is more like California than China.
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Asia
Travel
Fukushima 7 years later: Japan for lovers of the outdoors
Fukushima has now been safe to visit for several years, with a wide variety of experiences for adventurous, relaxed, and cultural travellers.
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Asia
Hotel review
One Night in Bangkok… or is it Shanghai?
Hidden behind a lively street front jazz bar in the heart of Bangkok’s Chinatown, is a luxurious oasis: a step back in time to 1930s Shanghai, reinvented.
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South Pacific
Teens
Travel
Solomon Islands, bringing history alive for cynical teens
If you want to get your kids interested in history, take them the Solomon Islands, where WWII stories are brought to life by the wreckage left behind.
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Asia
Sustainable Travel
Travel
Sampling the simpler life on Koh Yao
Sitting on the veranda of my bamboo-thatched hut, in this quiet Thailand homestay, I can hear chickens clucking underneath the floorboards, the odd bleat from a family of goats I can see grazing their way across the lawn and the far-away sound of kids playing somewhere in the garden out of sight. There’s the slight […]
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Australia
New South Wales
Road Trips
Port Stephens in Winter – a top 10 for teens
Winter is possibly a better time to visit Port Stephens than summer – there’s a great mix of good food, adrenalin hits and winter-exclusive experiences.
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South Pacific
Teens
Cook Islands with teens
The Cook Islands, quite simply, stunning – but how does it stack up for teens? Here are a few ideas on what teens will enjoy in this South Pacific paradise.
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Australia
Road Trips
Teens
The Coffs Coast with teens
I’ve been bringing the kids to Coffs since they were in nappies, and boy, has it changed over the years. The Banana remains but there is so much more to do in the great outdoors. Here’s my top picks for Coffs Harbour activities with teenagers. The Big Banana, perhaps for its kitsch value, is a […]
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Travel
Hogmanay in Edinburgh: 12 stories to experience.
Here’s my pick of experiences to tick off for a great Hogmanay in Edinburgh – not all limited to New Year’s Eve, and each with its own story to tell.
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