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Fancy yourself as a bit of a photographer? Do you like to take photos of things in their, erm, natural state? Great Eastern Ranges in partnership with my *friends at Australian Traveller Magazine have just launched a photography competition with four different categories: My Community – People who live a...

Name: Tennille Duffy                     Age: 27 Occupation: Lawyer/Consultant for Human Rights NGO (non-government organisation) Where do you live?: New Delhi, India. Why did you move there?: For this job.  I applied for the experience and the adventure of living overseas. What do you...

‘In bocca al lupo’ means ‘Good luck’ in Italian. The literal meaning is ‘In the wolf’s mouth’. The appropriate response if someone wishes you luck is ‘Crepi il lupo’, meaning something along the lines of ‘The wolf will cark it.’ Dead wolf = suc...

The Paloma from Mexico By Dan Kaufman When it comes to Mexican cocktails most people think of margaritas – yet according to Christophe Lehouz, the owner of Pocket Bar, in Mexico it’s the Paloma cocktail that’s arguably more popular. It could be because the teaming of grapefruit soda with tequila makes t...

Hungry in Hanoi By Maggie Videan Hanoi is a wonderful city, busy and bustling, with a feast of fabulous local eateries that are well priced and boast wonderful fare. As such, my short sojourn in Hanoi was enhanced by the fact that I am such a ‘foodie’; I was in my element out and about savouring the deli...

Name: Tim Doyle Age: 25 Occupation: Travel Film-maker / Presenter / Adventurer  Favourite travel destination and why? Fiji Islands. In 2006, I convinced my university here in Australia to allow me to study at the University of the South Pacific in Suva for seven months. On my weekends I would travel up and d...

Fashion must-haves for non-tragic transit By Tess Anderssen Airports are the worst. Getting on the plane, enduring your flight, getting off the plane and doing it all over again. Don’t even mention stopovers; transit is always painful, boring and usually made all the worse by having to pay $20 for a stale s...

Esurient \ih-SUR-ee-uhnt; -ZUR-\, adjective: Hungry; greedy. I don’t know about you guys but I have been starving all week. This word seems very appropriate!

A few weeks ago a friend of mine interviewed me about what books I take with me when I travel. I have been thinking about this ever since and, upon further consideration, it turns out that I really do have a system. At the moment, I am reading the Ladies’ No 1 Detective Agency series by Alexander McC...

Singha beer is one of the many wonderful things about Thailand. I loved the elephants (when you feed them bananas, you get trunk snot on your hands which is both gross and cute at the same time). Then there are the beaches, the waterfalls, the jungles and the incense-scented temples (the best part of which ...