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- Visiting another country with an international driver's licence is one thing…when you actually move to a foreign country you have to get a local licence to drive a motor vehicle. As regular listeners to this show will remember we documented about one year ago, the trials and tribulations of trying to obtain a drivers licence in Spain our reporter Karin Avila is working to obtain her licence, imp...

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A couple of weeks back we talked about travel disasters we had encountered whether as travel writers or just plain leisure travellers and we asked any listeners who wanted to share their personal disaster stories with us and we would choose the best. Listen to the email submission from Lydia Leibrock of Naples Florida. It is an absolute classic. So be careful who you tsit next to on the plane and...

Kristin Henning reports on her deep dive visit to Valencia, Spain. This Mediterranean coastal city is the third largest in Spain...and is known as a culinary capital and the birthplace of paella. Kris identifies the best places to eat and explains why Valencia is also a design centre and a European Green City. After our chat, you'll find a link to her detailed post about Valencia on Travel Past 50...

Travel Writer Alistair Smith doesn’t mind going the long way around as he tells me in this interview about a recent outback drive from Melbourne to Gold Coast Queensland, which he admits could have been covered in about two days. Instead it lasted four weeks and he covered 8000 km. However, Alistair clearly had a great experiences in the outback bush stopping to explore some fascinating towns and...

Our award-winning sustainability reporter Keeley Warren speaks with Debbie Clarke on why intentional and considered storytelling matters in the tourism and travel sector. Debbie is the Director of Regenerative Development at The Centre for Good Travel, course facilitator at The Tourism CoLab, and host of The Good Awaits podcast. She explains her framework for telling regenerative stories and offer...

Kari Hunter, Senior Director Commercial and Revenue Management with Choice Hotels, says guests will now be spoiled for choice when looking for business or leisure accommodation. She reveals to reporter Helen Hayes a new upmarket range of properties that will certainly change people’s perceptions of this group and their offerings at more than 1700 properties across Australia and New Zealand. Includ...

While the authorities in western Europe are still coming to grips with the real cause of this week’s power blackout that affected whole countries, shutting down public transport and closing airports across Spain, Portubal and parts of France. One of out reporters on the spot Karin Avila speaks with Graeme Kemlo about the blackout, which she said caused an eerie silence in her province of Valencia...

Overview of this week's two-hour radio show on food, wine, lifestyle and travel. Produced and preasented by the Professional Association of Lifestyle and Travel Writers (PALAT)

In this special edition of Travel Writers Radiop we focus on our national memorial day, known as Anzac Day. ANZAC was the name given to the soldiers from Australia and New Zealand who fought side by side in Gallipoli 110 years ago. They forged a bond that still exists as the men and women of both our armed services continue to defend democracy in other fields opf battle over the decades. Former PM...

Simon Tancred’s love of hiking is such that he has walked more than 15,000 kilometres across Italy. His love affair with the country’s trails began in 1993 when he launched Hidden Italy guided and self-guided walking tours. The company today thrives on taking up to 1000 walkers a year. One of those treks is featured in Simon’s new book – Trails to Freedom – the true story of medieval trails used b...

Brent McKean doesn’t just talk the talk, he walks the walk as the editor of a bi-monthly magazine, Great Walks and now as editor of his group’s first hardback coffee table book about Australia’s greatest coastal walks. Graeme Kemlo, who in his youth was known to hike in Victoria’s high country, but has since hung up his boots, enjoyed the chat with Brent, even learning that Australia has its own C...

Well that’s our theme for #Worth1000Words and this week’s image is from Graeme Kemlo who recently visited a magnificent building in Pattaya Thailand. Our Tuk-Tuks arrived atop a hill north of Pattaya City to find a large crowd, but in the distance with the backdrop of the Gulf of Thailand – it looked a bit like a battleship made of wood. It is the SSanctuary of Truth. On closer inspection and wear...

Our Melbourne-based reporter Alistair Smith is certainly someone who has been known to take the road less travelled and we benefit from some of the unusual destinations he chooses to visit. This week he speaks with Graeme Kemlo about his cruise north of Australia to Papua New Guinea, in particular the sites of Australia’s military engagement in Milne Bay and Rabaul where there’s still evidence of...

Maybe we're over-sharing but Helen Hayes was asked at a recent writers' festival whether she had suffered any travel disasters in her career as a traveller. She asked Graeme Kemlo the same question and now you will all discover our most embarrassing moments on the road. We did offer for anyone who cares to share that you could email your story to info@travelwritersradio.com and we'll share the bes...

Another day, another drop in the stock market in a year in which the travel industry was feeling so bullish having rebuilt that sector following the COVID pandemic and with a quick stroke of his felt pen Donald Trump has flushed it all down the toilet. Billions of dollars have already been lost from Superannuation accounts here in Australia. But there have been some interesting developments over t...

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We have more food, wine, lifestyle and travel stories from our team tonight. Our correspondents cover a range of interesting destinations too, from Victoria to Bali, from China to Spain, plus Georgia and British Columbia in Canada. If you want to get in contact, email: info@travelwritersradio.com We'd love to hear from you with your comments, your suggestions, or perhaps you are a journalist who w...

Helen Hayes made a quick trip last month across the Pacific to Sun Peaks Resort near Kamloops in British Columbia. She''s been there so many times she knows the place like she's a local. Helen and a few other Aussies just love the place. She tells you all you need to know plus some handy tips on where and when to ski, eat and drink. Photo: Helen Hayes - we can assure she's not on a lean, the camer...

From her office in London to the far-flung regions of China, Wendy Wu continues to expand her horizons by establishing “new destinations” for travellers to explore. As founder and owner of leading travel wholesale company Wendy Wu Tours, Wendy has seen many changes since organising her first guided tour from Australia in 1998. Today, an effervescent Wendy speaks with correspondent Mike Smith to sh...

Graeme Kemlo was recently in Adelaide, where he received the latest report from Adelaide Economic Development Agency. It reveals that more than $9 billion dollars worth of major infrastructure is currently approved, planned or under construction. It includes 14- better make that 15- new hotels that will seriously enable this former city of churches to compete against the East Coast. Photo: Archite...

All Roads Lead to Spain On a windy spring day in the city of Valencia, correspondents Kris Henning and Karin Avila met for the first time. Sipping horchata — a locally originated creamy non-alcoholic drink made from tiger nuts — they settled comfortably at a café in Mercado de Colón, a 20th-century Valencian Art Nouveau structure dating back over 100 years. This colourful, tiled and textured open...

Our Perth-based correspondent Carmen Jenner has checked out a new budget airline, China’s TransNusa airlines on their inaugural flight from Perth to Denpasar, Bali. While in Bali, she visited Ubud to experience Nyepi, the Day of Silence. Carmen spoke to Graeme Kemlo earlier. Photo by Carmen Jenner in Ubud. Here are some useful links: Transnusa https://transnusa.co.id/en; Laguna Nusa Dua https://ww...

On his recent trip through eastern Europe reported on the show earlier, journalist Alistair Smith fulfilled a wish to visit Georgia, the former Soviet republic with its rich history. He did not go looking for stories of the darker past when Stalin was in charge; however, a museum to his honour and the house he was born in were on his group itinerary. Apart from some time in Stalin's home town, Ali...

Graeme Kemlo chats with entrepreneur Leanne Neeland about her move from Western Australia to Victoria in 2012 to visit the wine regions of Victoria and find a tourism-related business to establish. With husband Ian she found a niche in chocolate and ice cream, establishing the Yarra Valley Chocolaterie and Ice Creamery soon after. Now Leanne has three locations and a fourth one on the way. She buy...