sharpTHE TRAVELLER EDITION 1 FITNESS LIFESTYLE FOOD & WINE FILMS & FESTIVALS Managing Director’s Contents Welcome Inflight Health 4 The Tale of The Sharp Traveller 5 The Delightful Tastes of Adelaide 6 Work to Live, Not Live to Work 8 > Real Wealth Equals Quality Time > Return on Investment Sharp Contacts Helping to Build Sharper Communities: 9 Bookings > Sharp Airlines’ Community Support Program T: 1300 55 66 94 Welcome to Sharp Airlines’ new flight magazine, F: 03 5574 8258 Sharp Things to See and Do 10 The Sharp Traveller. E: [email protected] Seasonal Delights 11 Sharp Airlines is a leader in regional aviation, dedicated W: www.sharpairlines.com.au to delivering quality service across all aspects of the What’s On? 12 organisation, and The Sharp Traveller is no exception. Head Office Over the past few months we have worked hard to bring Fitness Tips to have you Flying in no Time 14 Hamilton Airport you this fresh and exciting publication, featuring a variety of The Sharp Files 16 articles from lifestyle and destination stories, to information Hensley Park Rd about your health and well-being. Hamilton VIC 3300 > Flying High – Jason Lipson The Sharp Traveller is designed to cater to readers by giving > What’s in My Wardrobe? - Annie Clifforth you an accurate and informed view about everything from Adelaide Office lifestyle and destinations, to your health and > Staff Profile – Sandi Jones Sir Richard William Ave well-being. Our goal is to provide you with the most up-to- Ones to Watch 18 date, stimulating news from across the nation, and from Adelaide Airport SA 5950 your own community. Our commitment is to ensure we Sharp Minds 19 provide a quality, fresh and innovative publication. Melbourne Office Baggage Information 19 Inside you will find information about Sharp Airlines’ staff Main Terminal and passengers as well as a list of the exciting goings-on Essendon Airport New Products 20 in each port. We’ve got carefully constructed articles about Hargrave Ave how you can achieve work-life balance in our Lifestyle Flight Schedules 21 section, as well as how to prepare an Essendon Fields VIC 3041 autumn feast. You can also read about the journey the magazine took to Portland Office get its name, The Sharp Traveller, on page 5. Main Terminal Whether you are a regular customer of Sharp Airlines or a Portland Airport first-time passenger, we’re sure the The Sharp Traveller will Cashmore Road keep you entertained during the flight. And seeing as it’s a Portland Airport VIC 3305 free publication for you to take home, we’re sure it’ll keep you entertained long after you’ve left the tarmac, too. Media & Marketing Safe and happy travelling, S ’ GUIDE Organised Success OFFICIAL VISITOR PORTLAND & T: 1300 30 48 03 THE DISCOVERY COAST F: 03 53 335 489 6)#4/2)!s!5342!,)! E: [email protected] Malcolm Sharp When you land in Portland, pick For more information Portland Visitor Information Centre Ph –1800 035 567 Managing Director 2 Nelson Visitor Information Centre – Ph (08) 8738 4051 #!0%"2)$'%7!4% / s #!34% 24/.s up our new Regional Visitor Guide. .'s.%,3/.s-%2). PORTLAND / s (%97//$s.!22!7 Casterton Visitor Information Centre – Ph (03) 5581 2070 DARTMOOR visitvictoria.com 2 THE SHARP TRAVELLER THE SHARP TRAVELLER 3 The Tale of THE SHARP In Flight Health Traveller Staying in good health while travelling can help to To help avoid Deep Vein ensure your trip is a happy and enjoyable one. Thrombosis (DVT) When Sharp Airlines put a call out to find a Before you go, be prepared In the air: name for the new flight magazine, entries came Checklist of useful health tips for travellers: > Drink plenty of fluids (but avoid alcohol flooding in – some were clever, some were and caffeine). > Eat and drink safely. Try not to overindulge in interesting and some were…well, strange. alcohol. > While seated stretch your feet and lower However none came close to Adrian Reis’ winning legs. > Carry your own travellers’ medical kit. entry, THE SHARP TRAVELLER. > Apply sunscreen and repellent regularly. On the ground: > Take enough routine medication to cover the > Don’t over exercise - especially in hot length of your trip. climates. Why The Sharp Traveller? says Adrian. > Include ‘rest time’ in your travel itinerary. > Research your destination. Adrian Reis would like to say that he used “While many applicants are people who want > Wear comfortable shoes, a hat and a very methodical approach to selecting his to continue their career in a location near sunscreen for sightseeing. award winning entry, but really the name their birthplace, there are also many that are sea changers or tree changers. While those Information for travellers and travel advisories are The Sharp Traveller just “dropped out” of his brain. “I tried to think of words which best candidates can be very good, it is a family available from the Department of Foreign Affairs decision and it’s important to ensure that every and Trade’s smartraveller website: smartraveller. represented Sharp Airlines’ position in the market place,” Adrian said. member of the family has ‘buy-in’ to moving to gov.au. a new location”. “I thought of a few other names…Sharp Approach, Wise Traveller…eventually The Adrian’s links with aviation have been strong Sharp Traveller just dropped out of my brain!” with his wife, brother-in-law and father-in-law having possessed a private or commercial It looks like name dropping isn’t such an pilot’s license at some time. arrogant exercise after all. Adrian said that the recent expansion of Sharp Airlines’ routes to locations such as Reis & Company Mildura and Port Augusta have allowed him Adrian Reis has a stronger connection with to access clients quickly and economically. Sharp Airlines than just being a regular “On most mornings, it takes as long to get passenger. In 1996, he commenced flight from Essendon to Hamilton as it does to get Sign-up for Sharpnews & training with Malcolm Sharp, Managing over the West Gate Bridge” said Adrian. In Director and co-founder and finished his full a business where a swift response is often private pilot’s license under the steady hand required, the convenience of an air link is Specials and go into the draw of Sharp Airlines’ Chief Flying Instructor and very helpful. co-founder, Peter Sobey. Adrian is the Managing Director of Reis for double return airfares. & Company, an Executive Search and Recruitment firm that services clients in regional locations. Working with clients There are 2 ways to sign-up: Name such as Murray Goulburn, Wingara Wine 1. Simply complete the form below Company Name Group (they produce Katnook Estate and and fax to: 08 8234 3764 Deakin Estate), Murray Irrigation, Southern Email Rural Water and Nicholson Construction, Reis & Company Pty Ltd OR Adrian’s company has been responsible for 2. Send your Name, company name, Postcode the placement of Senior Executives, General Telephone: (03) 9631 5200 email address and postcode to – Management and Directors throughout Winners will be drawn the following days: Level 9/52 Collins Street [email protected] Victoria, southern New South Wales and parts Melbourne Vic 3000 with the subject - Competition 31 July 2010 30 September 2010 of South Australia. 31 May 2010 30 November 2010 www.reisandcompany.com.au *Conditions Apply. “Recruiting for regional locations is very different to finding people in the city”, 4 THE SHARP TRAVELLER THE SHARP TRAVELLER 5 Gourmet Food, Gifts & Wine Merchants FRESH SEAFOOD DAILY Enjoy Hamilton’s The Delightful Oysters - Prawns - Fresh Fish Award Winning Café and Restaurant Tastes of We also stock the largest Adelaide range of local wines Tasting Australia Over 30 cheeses to select from! In the 11 years since its conception, Tasting More than two hundred chefs, and dinners in the city of Adelaide and the Australia has become one of the country’s restaurateurs, food writers and wine regions of South Australia with such most influential and best attended food and broadcasters, TV personalities, food guests as Antonio Carluccio, Rosemary drink festivals. producers, winemakers, brewers, and Shrager, Antony Worrall Thompson, Pete educators will be taking part in eight days - Evans, Maeve O’Meara, Frank Camorra, The event has hosted hundreds of the and nights - of events. Ben O’Donoghue, Manu Feildel, Stephanie world’s top chefs, sommeliers, restaurateurs, Alexander and Simon Bryant. There will also food, wine, beer and travel media - including Major activities include: be wine masterclasses, food art, cooking the most highly respected television classes, debates and unique lunches presenters and producers - and has > Two-day free BankSA Feast for the and dinners. attracted a wide cross-section of the food- Senses presented by the LifeStyle loving public to Adelaide and South Australia. FOOD Channel on the banks of the Celebrities attending Tasting Australia in River Torrens 2010 include: While Tasting Australia began as a largely media-based event - aimed at drawing the > Adelaide Food Summit Rosemary Shrager (Ladette to Lady), attention of newspaper, magazine, radio and > IGA Kids in the Kitchen Antony Worrall Thompson (UK’s Ready, television attention to the bounty of South cookery classes Steady, Cook), Simon Bryant and Maggie Australia - it has now grown to comprise Beer (ABC’s The Cook and the Chef), some 70 events, attracting crowds upwards > Miele Cooking Demonstrations Pete Evans and Manu Feildel (My Kitchen of 50,000 over eight days. > Word of Mouth – a writers’ and Rules), Poh Ling Yeow and Andre Ursini (MasterChef) and Italian legend Antonio Tasting Australia....Rub shoulders with the readers’ event Be spoilt for choice in our Carluccio.