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Travel Tips & Advice

How to Survive in the Australian Outback (ABC Landline)

Landline is ABC TV’s national rural issues program. This week’s Landline episode is all about how to survive in the Australian outback. I’ll be watching the show and adding the top tips to improve your safety when travelling in the outback to this review.

I love to travel, especially to remote places off the beaten track [...]

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A Year Of Sport Travel (Lonely Planet Book Review)

Keen sports fans Australia-wide who have spent many sleepless nights recently following Mark Webber in F1 Racing, Cadel Evans in the Tour de France and Australia vs England in the Ashes cricket series may be interested in getting their hands on the latest book from Lonely Planet: “A Year Of Sport Travel”

The glossy coffee table [...]

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Which Road Less Travelled Articles Are Your Favourites?

Articles on the Road Less Travelled website cover several different topics around the idea of Travel Tales, Reviews and Photos from places around the world off the beaten track.
You may have noticed that I display very few ads on this site, just enough to pay for its web hosting fees and the time I [...]

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Time To Choose: Qantas Frequent Flyer Points Transfer Deadline 31/03/09

For most people, comparing rival frequent flyer points programs is as boring as comparing political parties at elections – but the choice you make can make a big difference to the benefits you get so it’s worth taking the time to choose the right one.
Realising this Qantas has engaged ad agency M&C Saatchi to launch [...]

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Fly Virgin Blue & Get 5% of Flight Cost Rebated

Whenever I book flights within Australia & NZ I always do it on Virgin Blue because I know how to get 5% of my flight cost* rebated as credit on my Virgin Mobile account and besides that Qantas is expensive with poor service and Jetstar is cheap and nasty with less legroom.
Everyone knows that Virgin [...]

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2008: Top 10 Popular Road Less Travelled Blog Posts

The top 10 most popular new Road Less Travelled blog posts for 2008 are listed below. The list is in order of how many times each blog post was viewed

Although I’ve traveled to quite a few places in several countries (considering I’m only in my mid 20’s), I realised that I couldn’t give readers a [...]

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2008: Best Road Less Travelled Photos and Blog Posts

Unfortunately as all writers and photographers are aware, the best articles/photos are not necessarily the most popular ones so I’ve listed my *best* Road Less Travelled articles & photos from 2008 below to give them a bit more visibility
Best Photos

Camels at Sunset on Cable Beach, Broome, Western Australia
Flying over Fox Glacier, South Island, New Zealand
Man [...]

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Adventure Travel and Backpackers Expo: Useful Info, Discounts and Prizes (Review)

Adventure Travel and Backpackers Expo

I attended the annual Adventure Travel & Backpackers Expo at Darling Harbour, Sydney and would highly recommend you spend a few hours at it if you’re considering taking a backpacking/adventure holiday in the next 12 months. Similar expos are also held in Melbourne and Brisbane every year
Entry costs $7 or you [...]

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High Speed Rail Trains Around the World: Except Australia

By 2013 Australia will be in the embarrassing position of being left behind by Africa and South America as the only inhabited continent on this planet without any true high speed 200 km/hr+ rail services.

Fast Train photo credit: Oimax

Europe
Europe has the best network of high speed trains in the world. On the London-Paris route, Eurostar [...]

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Travel Writing Seminar – Sydney Writers Centre (Review)

Photo credit: Lusi
Wish you could combine your passion for travel with writing about the destinations you visit?
If you’re wondering how you can become a paid travel writer then you’re in luck because I was recently invited to review the Travel Writing Seminar held at the Sydney Writers Centre.
You’ll learn the secrets of the trade [...]

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Travel and Photography News and Events

Host Auditions – New ABC2 Travel Show “Fanging It”
The ABC is looking for two youth presenters for a “21st Century Race Around the World”, dubbed Fanging It.
Fanging It is “an irreverent and contemporary hybrid web and TV production” with user generated program content uploaded to the web before it airs on television.
Applicants aged 18 or [...]

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Guest Writers are Welcome on my Road Less Travelled Blog

My footprints on a bush track in the Central Australian Desert region

Readers of the Road Less Travelled Blog will have noticed some articles are written by Guest Writers.
Although I’ve travelled to quite a few places in several countries (considering I’m only in my mid 20’s), I realised that I couldn’t give readers a bigger perspective [...]

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Find Out Time and Date In Another City Or Country

www.timeanddate.com is a great resource for finding out time and date related information for any major city or country around the world:

Whether you’re Checking the date and time for international business conference calls. For example it allows you to pick up to 4 cities on the planet and compare times for a web meeting or [...]

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Why 4WD / SUVs are Terrible Family Cars

Mothers have started to swarm in tightly organised groups of 200,000 or so toward the 4WD off-road car. Really and truly it’s hard to think of a more inappropriate selection of family cars.
I tell you people who have off road cars [in the city] are stupid and mad. They should be driven from the roads [...]

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Web2Mail and Mail2Web Free Services Review

Web2Mail.com and Mail2Web.com are 2 great services which allow you to:

Subscribe to your favourite web pages, and receive email updates of the whole page – Web2Mail.com
Access your POP or IMAP email account to read and send emails via a webmail interface – Mail2Web.com

Web2Mail.com

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