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The Australian | Travel and Indulgence
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News, views and information from the pages of The Australian
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Two for the road
MARK Day hops into a sidecar and accompanies his son on a motorbike adventure to mountainous Andorra.
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Get the hang of it
Heli-mountaineering is the latest thrill in the Rocky Mountains, reports Suzanne Morphet.
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Second time around
CAPRI and I have a history, an account that has long needed to be settled, like a southern Italian vendetta. It all began nine years ago, when I was travelling with my pregnant wife, Lesley, to research a book about tourists from ancient Rome, Route 66AD.
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Break with tradition
A CITY hotel room is no longer just a place to sleep, take bubble baths and eat club sandwiches and mini-bar Toblerones.
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Squirrels and ladders
THE first sitka spruce cone lands unseen but with a thwack on the ground loud enough to wake me from my early morning slumber.
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Way up north
ST ANTHONY, Newfoundland. As our boat approaches the iceberg, the strains of lush orchestral music float over the waves.
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Vote for the greens
THERE is a recently opened spa at this much-awarded New Zealand lodge, a fact that might seem worthy of little more than a note in a checklist of conveniences. But what an enchanted spa it is, set in a glade of papery-barked totara trees, amid ferns and orchids flourishing in a veritable paint-chart of greens. Wooden paths lead to a low building with four snug treatment rooms where pleasures of the ilk of facials with cool jade and crystallised bloodstone await. Massages are deliberately firm, designed to ease away the kinks and knots of an outdoorsy day.
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Start and finish every glamour trip with a clean sheet
MY grandmother always insisted that the test of a good hotel was in the quality of the bed linen.
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Space out on kimchi
THEY say that many national dishes are an acquired taste but none more so, in Departure Lounge's estimation, than kimchi, the fermented tongue-scorching cabbage affair that is South Korea's standard fuel.
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The Kyoto dish list
MENAMI, a smart little Kyoto restaurant specialising in obanzai, or traditional home-style cooking, does such a roaring trade it can be difficult to get in.
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High and hearty fare
GO to the Blue Mountains for sublime produce as well as famous views, says Sue Milne.
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Plane and simple
YOU may lose your mother-in-law in the download but wi-fi is the way to fly, says Vijay Verghese.
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