Allan Soutaris is an AYAD, part of a government program shipping young Australians off to work in developing countries, where the first week in Phnom Penh, Cambodia includes cultural misunderstandings, lots of bowing and a planned trip to the slums...
There's often a lot you don't appreciate about a city until you see it from a tourist's perspective and, being Perth born and bred, I imagine that applies to Melbourne too, says Cat Wall as she takes a stroll through Australia's culture capital.
Grounded by a hurricane in Habana, Cuba, we fuel up on mojitos and go in search of Ernest Hemingway and his own slice of history.
It isn’t often that we actually look at our city through the eyes of a tourist -- and even less common to examine what it is we love, or loathe, about the city in which we live. Stop and smell the roses, says Mike Doman.
From grandiose columned architecture to colourful anti-Sarkozy protesters and stunning sunsets reflected against sandstone, Bordeaux proved a wonderful travel surprise during Nic Heath's French adventures.
The topic of the day for the good citizens of Barcelona last weekend was the visit by the Pope to officially open the completed interior of Gaudí's Sagrada Família, an event 128 years in the making. Dr Terry Cutler was there.
Bob Gosford spent three days driving around the southern fringes of the Tanami Desert to the north-west of Alice Springs. Check out his incredible photos of blood-red sunsets, starry nights and dazzling blue outback skies.
What are the ramifications for passengers and for Qantas after the airline's most recent incident out of Singapore? The Crikey Clarifier explains.
If there is one incident top of mind for Qantas and other A380 operators today it is the Air France Concorde disaster of July 25, 2000, when debris punctured a fuel tank on takeoff from Paris and it crashed with the loss of all 109 people on board and killed a further four on the ground.
W H Chong travelled to Hobart in Tasmania and photographed this "lovely little extension of classic Italy."
