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Timing is key to every great holiday … especially when you’re hiking. Knowing where to go and what you can see and do is important. But, knowing when to go is crucial. Lonely Planet’s new book: Where to go When – Hiking has it all sorted. Carolyne Jasinski speaks with the authors Sarah Baxter and Paul Bloomfield.

This is music to your ears! Carolyne Jasinski and Graeme Kemlo update listeners on the new musicals showing now and coming to a live theatre near you in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. Image: Natalie Bassingthwaite premiered in Waitress last weekend in Melboune. It will then tour other states.

Melbourne journalist Emily McAuliffe takes us "home" to Far North Queensland to see Australia's largest monolith ... and it's not Uluru. Come on a trip to remote Mount Mulligan, a three-hour drive (by 4WD preferably) west of Cairns. It's so isolated, not many people really know about the monolith that dominates the landscape and dwarfs Uluru - or about the cattle station with a five-star, 28-guest...

Karin Avila, our Spain-based correspondent talks to people who, like her, are expats … strangers in a strange land. This time she speaks with Ken Thompson who, in 1982, joined the Royal Observer Corps to help serve the Royal Air Force. With Cold War tensions high and in pursuit of purpose and camaraderie, there was an opportunity to serve his fellow countrymen as an observer. Ken shares that it’s...

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Graeme Kemlo was invited by the Gold Coast Convention Event Centre at Broadbeach to witness the Arena at work, hosting Guy Sebastian's concert. It seats 4000 in concert style, but 6000 in the round. GM Nick Jeffrey said he was proud to show guests the capabilities of the venue with the added enjoyment of a a first class musical event. Acoustics were great, sight-lines perfect from elevated seats i...

A PORT FOR ALL SEASONS A 2hr 30 min drive north of Sydney is a blue water paradise that only 12 months ago was labelled by online travel app Wotif as Aussie Town of the Year. Port Stephens is more than a town though. The blue water hotspot comprises a cluster of townships which make for a quintessential Aussie coastal holiday – all year round. Whether you throw a prawn on the barbecue or picnic on...

Heen Hayes interviews Jane Lawson, an Australian travel writer who has written several books on Japan. A former chef, Jane has studied Japan over the past 40 years, and her latest book, Secret Japan, is an insider’s guide. She speaks with Helen Hayes. Photo: Helen Hayes

Chamberlain Emmanuel is CEO of the Virgin Islands Climate Change Trust Fund, launched at the Global Sustainable Island Summit in April 2026 Karin Avila met with Chamberlain shortly after his team formally announced the launch of the Virgin Islands Climate Change Trust Fund and revealed the project logo. He shared with Karin what “creating the world’s first climate-smart island chain” means in prac...

Alistair Smith had an interesting encounter with a First Nations Indigenous guide, Doug Clovechock who called himself an Indian and later rose to be a member of parliament representing British Columbia. He truly struck a chord with Alistair who spoke to Graeme Kemlo about the experience this week.

James Ellsmoor is the CEO of Island Innovation, a network of islands from around the world with the shared mission of creating a more sustainable future. The Global Sustainable Island Summit is one of their flagship events, and they recently held their fourth in-person summit in Gran Canaria, part of the Spanish Canary Islands. Karin met with James in between conference sessions, after he particip...

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"Gobsmacked” is not a word to be used lightly as a travel writer, but Carolyne Jasinski was just that – gobsmacked – by the sheer size of the Amazon river and its muddy water at the mouth as her Oceania Cruise ship started a long detour from her ocean crossing from Rio to Miami. Expecting jungle covered shorelines and plenty of wildlife to be seen, Carolyne found the river was a tually 5 km wide....

Reporter Mike Smith recently chatted wth USA product specialist Mark Sheehan who has experienced a roller coaster family journey while continuing to promote travel. His story is heartfelt, which is reflected in his book Breathing Through a Straw - Cody and I. Photo Mike Smith

Helen Hayes was on te inaugural train riding an extended route from Denver to Sale Lake City through the canyons of the southwest USA. The scenic dome train, Canyon Spirit, comes rom the people who brough you the sspectacular Rocky Mountaineer in Canada. Helen details what to expect on this three-day rail excursion. More information: canyonsirit.com

Our reporter Alistair Smith comes from the knuckle of north-eastern Scotland where there are some fascinating small fishing villages, some dating back to the 1600s,which are definitely worth a visit. Photo by Alistair Smith

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You are listening to another Private Label sponsored podcast produced by Travel Writers Radio with partner Travel Monitor on behalf of Tobu Railway Japan. Graeme Kemlo interviews one of Australia'smost prolific authors on travel guides to Japan, Steve Wide. Steve and his wife Michelle Mackintosh spend about three months each year in Japan researching and writing their books, which are published by...

With a population of 14m people, it’s an understatement to say visiting Rio de Janeiro can be a little daunting. Carolyne Jasinski discovers the good, the bad and the unbelievable ... including a walking tour through Rocinha Favela. It was "one of the best tours" she's ever done. Photo of Favels district by Carolyne Jasinski

Carmen Jenner visited Cambodia recently and ticked off one of her bucket list items with a stay ain the old world style of Raffles Hotel Le Royal which opened in 1929 in Phnom Penh. P_hoto supplied

Fiona Harper has been on an Antarctic Expedition Cruise not from the bottom of South America like most cruise shipsdo, but from New Zealand via the Southern Ocean. She tells Graeme Kemlo the month-long voyage included visits to islands with different penguin colonies en route and the chance to experience historic base camps from which early explorers studied the polar regions. Fiona travelled cour...

Kathleen Wong is the Consumer Travel Writer for the USA Today newspaper, and she speaks to Graeme Kemlo about her just-released book, highlighting ways visitors to the Hawaiian Islands can travel ethically, respecting the land, people, and culture. It's a book some Hawaiians wish had been written a lot sooner. The Conscious Traveller Hawaii is published in Australia by Hardie Grant. Photo: Kathlee...