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Here's what you will discover on Travel Writers Radio this week. Our usual informative interviews on lifestyle and travel plus we bring back our popular Travel Writers Radio News segment to keep you abreast of all the news you can use. To get in contact, email us - info@travelwritersradio.com Thanks for listening and if you enjoyed our show, please tell a friend.

Carmen Jenner believes the best way to get a taste for a destination is to take a guided street food tour. She recently joined Bangkok Food Tours and shares her tips for where to go and what to try with Graeme Kemlo. More: fluffytowel.com.au Image Carmen Jenner -Chinatowns Ann Guay Tiew Kua Gai

Park City Mountain Resort - the biggest ski resort in the USA, and Deer Valley, which is undergoing the biggest ski resort expansion in the 21st century, are gearing up for the 2034 Olympics. Helen Hayes chats to Megan Underwood, International Marketing Manager of Park City Chamber and Visitors Bureau. Image: Megan Underwood testing the Utah powder

Last week we spoke with Fiona Harper in Queensland about moving her traditional Queenslander timber home about 100km from a cane field to Bundaberg, on the back of a semi-trailer. Well, now it is up on temporary stilts while they jack it up to its final height. Fiona says it is like a Jenga game. She also still has a lot of work to do ... but we salute her.

Melbourne reporter Alistair Smith believes everyone should go behind bars on their travels – not the ones that serve alcohol - bars that lock you up. Alistair recently visited Old Melbourne Gaol – most famous as the place where Australia’s best known bushranger, Ned Kelly, was hanged. It reminded him about all the jails he has been to and all the tales he was told. He speaks to Graeme Kemlo Photo:...

Here's the latest in food, wine, lifestyle and traverl stories from the team of professionals at Travel Writers Radio. Feel free to get in touch by email - info@travelwritersradio.com And thanks for listening.

Hill Farm Inn, set among South Vermont’s Green Mountains, is rich with history - the farm was first established 235 years ago and the Inn has been taking in guests for 155 years. Our team of Helen Hayes and Carolyne Jasinski stayed there on their road trip around New England USA.They loved soaking up the country chic atmosphere and dining on the “home-grown” produce. Here they speak with the Gener...

This week’s theme is clearly aimed at visitors to this country in the wake of last week’s rescue of a German woman missing for 11 nights in the rugged outback of Western Australia. It appears she became disoriented after hitting her head as her vehicle slid off the track. The whisper should be shouted out loudly – anyone travelling in our outback should be aware that surviving 11 days is a miracle...

#Worth1000Words - this image is from Kristin Henning and it was taken at Vail Colorado. Here’s Kris' explanation of the photo: a Vail Mountain gondola over the fast-moving Gore Creek, Vail Village, Colorado. The famous ski resort of Vail, Colorado, turns its attention to other outdoor activities in the summer. The surrounding White River National Forest in the Rocky Mountains provides a natural pl...

Our Queensland-based colleague Fiona Harper undertook a massive house move – no not using furniture removalists, she hired a full blown semi-trailer and loaded a small wooden house , a typical Queenslander and had it carted late at night, with Police lights flashing, roads blocked, power lines lifted. She moved more than 100 km tio the Bundaberg area and now her next task is to make it liveable. F...

On her recent visit to the US, Helen Hayes attended a convention in Chicago and gives her take on this lakeside beauty that is and was home of some of America’s most famous names: Al Capone, Ernest Hemingway, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton. Even Ronald Reagan was from Illinois. Image: The Bean - Photo by Jansen Miller on Unsplash

This week it is the 12th annual Bastille Festival, where Sydney's harbourside transforms into everything French and the wearing of berets is commonplace. Mike Smith reports that it is a mouthwatering, fun filled festival and according to the organisers it’s larger and more spectacular than ever, and is on until Sunday July 20. Picture yourself dining on some gourmet delights while sampling the win...

When Lake Eyre in Outback South Australia sees a trickle of water, the news makes headlines all over the country. So you can imagine what happens when the lake fills ... and almost overflows. It has only happened four times in the past 160 years ... and it's happening right now. Carolyne Jasinski was lucky enough to get a bird’s eye view of the flood waters on a flight over the lake from the isola...

Listen to the stories up this week on Travel Writers Radio. We take you to the United States - Chicago and southern Vermont; to Bundaberg, Queensland; to the shores of Sydney Harbour; to Lake Eyre in flood and more. We'd love to hear back from you via email - info@travelwritersradio,com Happy to hear what you like and what you don't, or listen to any suggestions. We appreciate being ranked in the...

Most people think of snow when they think of Vail, Colorado, but our middle America reporter Kristin Henning has just experienced it in the green season. It offers a range of things to do including hiking, biking, fishing, eating and drinking in very pleasant surrounds and with more than 250 sunny days a year, you will most likely see it in all its glory. She spoke with Graeme Kemlo earlier. Photo...

Helen Hayes and Carolyne Jasinski, on a road trip around New England, visited Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut, and boarded the Charles W. Morgan - the last remaining wooden whaling ship in the world. Mystic Seaport is a huge indoor-outdoor museum and there is so much to see and do there. Our team spoke to a Thomas Mulholland, who is responsible for the visitor journey through the many acres o...

Chris Thé is a renowned Sydney pastry chef, formerly of Black Star Bakery and now Heart in Stanmore. But he almost didn’t become a chef, studying psychology instead. He tells Graeme Kemlo he gave up studying psychology because he was better at making people happy than making unhappy people better. It was a great decision he says to do an apprenticeship, graduate and then find a job with Timothy Pa...

All credit for this incredible tip goes to my fellow passenger on a recent flight to Bali - Carol from Camberwell. Listen to Graeme's explanation on this tip - which just might save your life! It is our first Travel Whisper and we encourage you to email us with your best tip - info@travelwritersradio.com

We all know that Salem is known for its witchy past, but what really happened during the Salem Witch Hunt? Carolyne Jasinski and Helen Hayes went on a mission to find out. Here they talk to Rachel Christone, the Education Director and Tina Jordan, Director at the Salem Witch Museum in the delightful city of Salem.

During their quest to find out all about the Salem Witch Hunt of 1692 in Salem Massachusetts, Carolyne Jasinski came across this mural in the town that features witch themes in almost every establishment.

Helen Hayes kicks off the show following her visit last week to ILTM Asia Pacific, the luxury travel expo in Singapore. She reports on the trends in luxury travel, who is travelling, the new affluent and the trends in this sector for 2025/26.

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One of the headline acts at the Rainforest World Music Festival in Sarawak last week was Earth Wind and Fire, which reporter Carmen Jenner says sounded just the same as the original despite having a number of new members. It was just one of the memorable three-day festival at the Sarawak cultural village on one side of the island of Borneo that belongs to Malaysia. While Carmen has been to the cit...

That’s the sound of the Vespa - Love them or hate them, Vespa is undoubtedly an iconic Italian scooter that was incredibly popular prior to the war in Vietnam. And Stephen Mueller should know as he bought and restored 1000 of them after he moved from Hawaii to the south of Vietnam in the late ‘90s. But he knew eventually these scooters would disappear as locals traded up, so Steve pivoted to runni...

Alistair Smith loves to travel to less usual places where he makes the time to find those interesting angles that bring foreign tourism to life. This week he tells Graeme Kemlo about his visit to Armenia, a small landlocked country in the southern caucuses that was the first country in the world to adopy Christianity as its official religion, despite being overrun by Russia, Turkey and Iran at var...