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Kristin Henning highlights the benefits of visiting modern Santiago de Chile and Chile’s central valley, often overlooked in the rush to see Patagonia in the south or the Atacama Desert in the north. Read more about Santiago and ristrin's recommendations for your Santiago itinerary on her blog at https://travelpast50.com/santiag=che=itinerary=neighborhoods-daytrips/ Photo Kristin Henning - Bellavi...

Fiona Harper sets out with a mate to ride a mountain bike from Devonport at the top of Tasmania to the bottom, near Hobart. But it was a lot more difficult than expected and in the end Fiona rode off alone , stopping for a brief respite at Launceston where a music festival was underway. Refreshed after a couple of days she continued on to Hobart, finding stops along the way that catered well for b...

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Graeme Kemlo was invited to stay at the recently opened Crowne Plaza Hotel Geelong, which is attached to the city's new Nyaal Banyul Convention and Event Centre opening in July. GM of the hotel, John Dickson spoke with Graeme about the impact of the new hotel on Victoria's second city. The 200-room hotel has amazing views from at least half the rooms, across Corio Bay and the image here shows what...

About three hours south of Cairns along the Savannah Way, Emily McAuliffe says the road is an easy way to drive the outback as it is tarred. At Undara Volcanic National Park is one of the world’s largest collections of lava tubes, while three hours further along the road is Cobbold Gorge. Photo Emily McAuliffe

Reporter Fiona Harper was at the recent South Pacific Tourism Expo held in Nadi Fiji. She sailed on a new small ship, the 22 cabin Blue Lagoon which does four to seven night cruises around Fiiji and ger islands. At the event there was an announcement of more sustainable practices to be implemented by Pcific tourism operators Photo Fiona Harper

We had seen reports about America’s militarist ICE agents, who shot and killed two American citizens in their heavy-handed crack down on illegal immigrants in Minneapolis …we heard they were being deployed to 14 US airports to “help” during the period when TSA agents were not working because of the government;s financial shutdown. So I asked our Minneapolis correspondent Kristin Henning for an upd...

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Late last week Graeme Kemlo spoke with the COO of Australia’s largest hotel group, Adrian Williams of Accor Pacific about a range of topics but particularly we wanted to get his take on what impact the ran war would have on the industry and in turn, the hotel guests. This is what he told Graeme. Photo supplied.

Our Spain correspondent Karin Avila discovered this statue in Madrid and set out to find the intriguing history behind the Lady of Elche. We think it is definitely #Worth1000Words

Maltstock is a whisky festival with a cult following. For that past 16 years has been held each year in the Netherlands. But now a local festival, known as Maltstock Down Under is coming to Austraia for the first time and will be held in Tasmania’s Central Highlands in May. The founder of the Australian event, David Ligoff) spoke to Graeme Kemlo this week about the three-day event which is differe...

Lucy O’Brien spent many years living and working in hospitality in tropical Port Douglas, butfive years ago she decided to give up the warmth to move to Tasmania to pursue her dream of becoming a distiller. Six months later she was working in the industry and and we now find her as the distillery manager of the historic, Clyde Mill Distillery at Bothwell in Tasmania’s central highlands. Graeme Kem...

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It is the second smallest country in the world, but the principality of Monaco certainly punches above its weight as home to some of the most glamorous sportsmen and women, ovie stars, Formula 1 drivers and plain rich folks. However Claire Kaletka-Neil assured Graeme Kemlo when he spoke to her this week that Monaco is capable of providing a short vacation for most budgets from two star to five sta...

The Manly Writers Festival is on from Thursday 19 to Sunday 22 March in Sydney, with a huge range of authors and speakers from Thomas Keneally, Bob Carr, Kylie Moore-Gilbert to Michelle Bridges. Helen Hayes, who is also involved in the Festival, spoke to the founder and festival director, Bonita Mersiades. More information: manlywritersfestival.org.au .

Karin Avila, herself an expat American living in Spain, has found some interesting stories among the expat community in her part of Valencia province. In this second of her Life As An Expat series, she speaks with Londoner Freddie Massey, who grew up in the theatre area known as Bloomsbury and was less than thrilled at his 16th birthday present from his mother. Photo by Karin Avila

Our veteran newspaperman, Alistair Smith is on a road trip retrospective as he relives life on the road trip up Highway One from Melbourne to Far North Queensland, a 5000-mile/9000 km trip he did in the Ford Falcon station wagon many years ago. Alistair, who is a trained observer as a journalist, kept a diary which made for interesting reading decades later. The cost of things along the way will a...

In the recent Austrtalian Tourism Awards the Big4 Holiday Park on the Gold Coast took out the Gold Award which caused us to wonder just how this sector of the tourism industry had evolved from the days when you pitched a tent on a square of grass to today’s sophisticated family adventure parks with a broad range of accommodation on site, pools, playgrounds, water parks, even restaurants. Graeme Ke...

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Travel Writers Radio's team of professional journalists and broadcasters presents the latest stories covering lifestyle and travel experiences and destinations. Now in our 13th year, this multi-award winning program has produced more than 3000 stories aired first on J-Air 88FM then on our podcast platform at Soundcloud. Thanks for listening.