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Planning a holiday using takeabreak.com.au
Australia
By Bruce Mumford
Once upon a time, planning a holiday was both time-consuming and expensive. It could involve a lot of map reading, phone calls and visits to bookshops or the library. Doing all that research and then developing an organised system to record all your findings was a major trauma.
Thanks to the internet, everything is now so much easier - and often cheaper, too. For our Great Ocean Road accommodation, I went to the local travel agency and picked up a few tourist brochures on the areas we intended to visit. These are useful to get an idea of the significant sites and tourist spots, so I can choose to include them in our itinerary – or, in some cases, avoid them.
I then worked out a route using the NRMA Trip Planner, www.drivethere.com.au, which gives you the distance betwe...
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Travelling to Australia
By Kylie Jane Degeling
For many, it is a dream to travel to the Land Down Under. The Great Barrier Reef is a natural phenomenon many long to see for themselves, as is the giant Uluru (formerly known as Ayers Rock) sitting smack in the middle of the country. Seeing kangaroos in the wild, the chance to cuddle a koala, and just experience the laid-back attitude for which Australians are famous, may seem like an impossible dream. Happily, it takes only a day to travel to this great island continent, and with flights more reasonably priced than ever, and plenty of deals available throughout the year, you could soon be chatting with the locals while marveling at the mixed-up features of a platypus.
Getting there
Plenty of airlines travel to Australia, including their main carrier, Qantas. How much you pay to t...
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Your honeymoon – why it really should be all about you!
By Lisa Monk
Weddings are wonderful, glorious, exciting, romantic, memorable … and fraught! It doesn’t matter how well-organised you/your partner/your mother/your wedding planner is …no-one can deny that arranging a wedding is an exercise in endurance, as well as joy.
So, the honeymoon should be the time to wind down, enjoy one another and do as much or as little as you please. But that brings up another problem, because these days, honeymoons are nearly a competitive sport! Where are you going, how long for, is there a spa, is it 5 star, is it eco-friendly, can your furry family come too, can your normal family come too???? Whew! - honeymoon options need to be as modern and flexible as weddings have become.
And they can be!
First, decide what you want &...
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