Not far from Australia's capital city, Canberra, is a display of miniature buildings and locations from around the world called Cockington Green Gardens. It is an amazing place that gives immense pleasure to visitors of all ages. Opened to the public in 1979, Cockington Green is one of the region's landmark attractions and a winner of numerous tour...

The Cook Islands has won the highly acclaimed Best in Travel award for 2022 from leading travel brand Lonely Planet, which began publishing the popular Lonely Planet travel guide books nearly a half-century ago. The Cook Islands was voted number one in the Top 10 Countries category. The Cook Islands is reopening its borders progressively, first to ...

The Hunter Valley in New South Wales is Australia's oldest wine-producing region and it's only 120km or a two-hour drive north of Sydney, from where it gets most of its visitors. It is a region of stunning natural beauty and undulating vineyard landscapes, award-winning restaurants, innovative paddock-to-plate produce and more than 150 cellar doors...

Smoke fills the air. Not the smoke of a volcanic eruption, but the cookfires of hundreds of family huts.​ It was 1986, and I visited Tonga on an Earthwatch expedition. Our task was to map the growing fields identifying the types of vegetation–taro, plantains, papaya, and coconut made up some of the target crops. Our direct observation used ground-t...

Critically acclaimed musical Girl from the North Country will be the first new international production for Australia since the New South Wales Government announced the return of live theatre to the state. A modern masterpiece written and directed by Conor McPherson (The Weir, The Seafarer) and with music and lyrics by Bob Dylan, Girl From The Nort...

The Art of Staying at a Historic and (Possibly) Haunted Hotel Britain – the county where the first purpose-built inn (the Old Bell Hotel at Malmesbury) dates back to year 1220 - is full of historic places to stay. We Brits often tend to take them for granted, very much unlike, say, Australians (and I am a carrier of both British and Australian pass...