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January 28- 29,2017

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Angie Tomlinson’s selection of great WA... TRACKS TO TOUR Holidays OF THE Open to Call All World Weekend! 1300 786 856 Deal of the Week! FULLY ESCORTED TOUR OF SRI LANKA NATURE, CULTURE & WILDLIFE SAFARI TOUR INCLUSIONS: condition coach throughout & spice garden in Matale • Return airfares travelling from Perth to the tour including scenic drives • Explore beautiful Yala National Park Colombo fl ying with Singapore Airlines through the country side • Enjoy a city tour of Galle • 13 Day Fully Escorted Nature, Culture • Visit the Pinnawala Elephant & Wildlife Safari Tour visiting Sigiriya, TOUR HIGHLIGHTS: Orphanage & Kosgoda Turtle Hatchery Kandy, Matale, Yala, Galle & more • See Sigiriya Rock Fortress • Deluxe accommodation throughout & Dumbulla Cave TWIN SHARE SOLO with breakfast included daily • Tour the Giragama Tea Plantation • Transfers onboard a private air- in Kandy, Tea Museum in Hanthana from $4399 from $5899

TREASURES OF ITALY BRITAIN & IRELAND EXPLORER INCLUSIONS: INCLUSIONS: • 11 Day 5 star Treasures • 13 Day 5 star Britain & Ireland Rome, Pompeii, Capri, of Italy Guided Holiday London, York, Edinburgh, Explorer Guided Holiday Florence, Cinque Terre, Portofi no, • 10 buff et breakfasts & 5 dinners Inverness, Glencoe, Chester, • Luxury Accommodation Lake Maggiore, Venice • Luxury accommodation Dublin, Killarney, Cardiff , Bath • 12 Breakfasts & 6 dinners • Expert Tour Director & local guides • Expert Tour Director & local guides • Luxury air-conditioned coach with extended • Luxury air-conditioned coach with extended leg room & on-board restroom leg room & on-board restroom • hotel & restaurant tips • hotel & restaurant tips • hotel & coach WiFi • hotel & coach WiFi • Return airport transfers • Return airport transfers Must book by Friday 27 January! from $4549 Must book by Friday 27 January! from $4429

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PORTS: Fremantle, Kimberley Coast, Broome, PORTS: Fremantle, Exmouth, Kuri Bay PORTS: Fremantle, Exmouth, Kuri Bay (Kimberley Exmouth, Fremantle (Kimberley Coast), Broome (overnight), Fremantle Coast), Broome (overnight), Geraldton, Fremantle INCLUSIONS: INCLUSIONS: INCLUSIONS: • 9 nights onboard P&O Pacifi c Eden • 9 nights onboard P&O Pacifi c Eden • 10 nights onboard P&O Pacifi c Eden • All meals, entertainment & taxes onboard • All meals, entertainment & port taxes • All meals, entertainment & port taxes TWIN TWIN TWIN EXCLUSIVE BONUS INCLUSIONS: SHARE EXCLUSIVE BONUS INCLUSIONS: SHARE EXCLUSIVE BONUS INCLUSIONS: SHARE • Broome Bus Tour Shore Excursion • Broome Bus Tour Shore Excursion • Broome Bus Tour Shore Excursion • 1 hour Welcome Drink Function onboard from $849 • 1 hour Welcome Drink Function onboard from $949 • 1 hour Welcome Drink Function onboard from $979

INDONESIAN ADVENTURE INDONESIAN EXPLORER REPOSITIONING CRUISE PORTS: Fremantle, Komodo Island, PORTS: Fremantle, Komodo Island, Makassar, Lombok, Probolinggo, Bali Makassar, Lombok, Bali (overnight), (overnight), Fremantle Probolinggo, Jakarta, Singapore INCLUSIONS: INCLUSIONS: • 12 nights onboard Pacifi c Eden • 12 nights onboard Pacifi c Eden • All meals, entertainment & taxes onboard • All meals, entertainment & taxes onboard • 2 nights at a 4 star hotel 9 APRIL 17 28 MAY 17 • Airfare from Singapore to Perth TWIN SHARE TWIN SHARE from $1199 from $899 TWIN SHARE from $1499

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PORTS: Tokyo, Kushiro, Shiretoko Penin- PORTS: Shanghai, Tianjin (2 nights), PORTS: Singapore, Phuket, PORTS: Singapore, Danang, Nha Trang, sula, Korsakov, Otaru, Hakodate, Tokyo Seoul, Jeju Island, Nagasaki, Taipei, Penang, Singapore Ho Chi Minh, Ko Samui, Bangkok Hong Kong (overnight) (overnight), Singapore (overnight) INCLUSIONS: INCLUSIONS: • Return airfares from Perth to Tokyo INCLUSIONS: • Return airfares to Singapore INCLUSIONS: • 2 nights at a 4 star Tokyo hotel • Airfare to Shanghai & Hong Kong to Perth • 2 nights at a 4 star Singapore hotel • Return airfares from Perth to Singapore • 7 nights onboard Diamond Princess • 2 nights at a 4 star Shanghai hotel • 5 nights onboard Ovation of the Seas • 2 nights at a 4 star Singapore hotel • All meals, entertainment & taxes onboard • 14 nights onboard Celebrity Millennium • Bonus up to $76 onboard credit per cabin • 14 nights onboard Celebrity Constellation • Bonus up to $100 onboard credit per cabin • All meals, entertainment, • All meals, entertainment, • All meals, entertainment, taxes • Bonus stateroom location upgrade# taxes & gratuities onboard taxes & gratuities onboard & gratuities onboard • Bonus specialty dining experience^ from $2399 from $2299 from $1499 from $2799

Prices correct as at 24 January. Prices are per person, twin share, and subject to change based on current availability. Onboard Credit amounts are per cabin and are not applicable to all cabin types or departures. P&O Kimberley Cruises off ering Broome Shore Excurion & cocktail function onboard Pacifi c Eden is subject to allocation by P&O Cruises and is exlusive to HolidayPlanet bookings. Fly from $549 & $849 per person in conjunction with selected 2017 Europe & Britain summer tour departures for new bookings only created from 22 Jan 2017 – 23 Feb 2017, until sold out. Prices are per person and represent adult fares including any applicable taxes and surcharges. The off er is based on fares to and from the nearest European city to the tour’s start and end point. Other destinations are available, however surcharges may apply. Airfares are valid for travel in economy class to Europe departing from SYD/MEL/ADL/PER/BNE for travel between 01 Mar 2017 and 31 Oct 2017. A surcharge may apply if the necessary booking class is not available and a higher booking class is required. Stopovers are permitted and may be subject to additional costs. Payment by credit/ debit card will incur a fee. Conditions apply. AFTA 03350. ATAS A11328. sevenwesttravelclub.com.au January 28- 29,2017 Stories Off ers Tours Events Competitions 3

TECHNOLOGY P8 SHORTCUTS P11 LUDLOW P16 The Shropshire market THIS WEEK town is at the heart of ᔡ There’s even a hinterland of plenty. more to explore at VIETNAM P20 sevenwesttravel SUMMER LOVING A young chef is club.com.au which Summer in WA. Is there anything teaching travellers old we’re constantly better? Well, yes — summer recipes in historic Hue. updating. Here’s a holidays in WA. WA SHORTCUTS P23 little of what we I drive along a white beach set covered this against the lip of turquoise ocean, week . . . the deeper, darker blue beyond ᔡ A manta ray’s and the cornflower blue sky MOUNTAIN BIKING P4 IN FLANDERS FIELDS P14 spots are as above. From the Kimberley to the south coast, our Some 6000 Australian soldiers killed in Send information individual as a I stop, back up towards the State has a host of off-road cycle trails for Belgium have no known grave. Malcolm and letters to fingerprint but one dunes, let the cool breeze blow beginners and bike enthusiasts alike. Quekett visits their memorial in Ypres. [email protected] Ningaloo native through, change into bathers and needs a name. walk into a Southern Ocean which ᔡ The heat in is at first chilly and then gradually UKE JUST CAN’T GET ENOUGH FAMILY FUN TIME interest in eastern Canada. Barry Perth has us finds some equilibrium between Our story on ukulele festivals struck a Cruising makes a good holiday for adds that the company also quite thinking of cooler water and body temperature that chord with reader Graeme Huxford. some families and Zac will recently sent 80 travellers on a climes — skiing off makes me want to drift in its silky He picked up the phone and rang embark on his sixth cruise in ground tour between Moscow and St a hotel roof sounds softness for ever. me. “Do you know about Ukorama February when the Downs Petersburg. bictontravel.com.au. like one way to chill 2017?” I do now. This is the ukulele family sails from (PS — My big round-up of out. 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Doors are open flying from the UK Seas and our recent story options. from York Street, past houses with 2.30pm to 8pm, it’s $5 entry, with to sail with us. brought back good ᔡ Missing your granite in their gardens, the more information from Gail Harris on Zac’s favourite memories. But Wyn adds: furry friend? narrow slot of the harbour mouth, 0417 223 557. It’ll prove, as we said in ship is Carnival “The one disappointment Fairmont Hotels in the islands and headlands beyond our story, that ukes are more than Vista, and he I have with the ship is Canada, Kenya and and then the benign curve of kids’ instruments. loved driving his the lack of consideration the US have canine Middleton Beach. In Albany there’s ‘own cruise ship’ on of single travellers at ambassadors a view at every turn. ZAC DOWN WITH CAPTAIN a Le Boat holiday in mealtimes. Only one literally on call. ᔡ Pies for morning tea in Five year old Zac Downs is Venice.” restaurant, the American Denmark, and then driving down “cruise-ship mad”, says his dad Barry. Grill, offered shared to Lights Beach, to walk and swim And so he was thrilled to chat with HEAD NORTH tables, so as a solo ON THE COVER and having a helluva lot of fun Astor’s captain Emmanouil Psarrakis, Barry is national sales traveller I had many meals Mountain biking with Shackleton, the dog (as you during a recent family voyage. and promotions alone. The meals were Picture supplied will have seen, inset on our front Captain Psarrakis is a fine chap who manager at Bicton delicious, the service cover). makes himself accessible to Travel, and chats about impeccable but the experience ᔡ There’s the drive to Walpole passengers and is always keen to add travel trends for 2017. He would have been doubly through our extraordinary tingle his voice to the performers’ singing. says they’re seeing keen pleasurable with table forests, but the inlets provide the Barry says Zac had a picture taken interest in northern companions. I have cruised real backdrop to the town, for me. with the captain and talks about it Europe — Iceland, with four other cruise lines on To purchase or browse Wind-strafed, flounder in the “everywhere he goes to anyone who Greenland and Norway. eight cruises and always had more great travel photos from shallows, and the wriggle of will listen. 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From young kids, barely old enough to walk to groups of Kenya & Tanzania Photo Safari retirees, Peta says mountain Join Travel Lead Photographer Mogens biking is an all-inclusive Johansen as he gives daily briefings on the activity that’s gaining serious best way to tackle photographic opportunities momentum in WA. on this ultimate African photo safari in Kenya “Mountain biking is not just and Tanzania. Explore some of East Africa’s for the advanced/enthusiast most spectacular landscapes and hone your rider. When you head out to the skills while you photograph a remarkable trails, you will find young kids tableau of wildlife. For tour details visit sevenwesttravelclub.com.au/tours on balance bikes barely old enough to walk, young families experiencing the trails, groups of men and women (young and Aug old) all enjoying what mountain 14 biking has to offer,” she says. “Just like skiing, mountain biking offers experiences across com.au) and offers tours, rides, all abilities. While every clinics and bike hire. mountain biker’s journey is Munda Biddi Mountain Bike Life different from the trail head, Hire (perthmountainbike CHOICE OFFER everyone shares a common hire.com.au) and Kalamunda EXPLORE IN 2017 path.” Cycles (kalamundacycles. Europe ^ ChooseC ONE of these The statistics reflect the com.au) both also offer bike ggenerous bonus offers: Maui Golf Sabbatical popularity of the pursuit. hire. Join WA golfing raconteur Lyndsay Stephen According to the Mountain The Margaret River region is Up to 8 FREE Shore on this on this journey to Maui, Hawaii for Bike Strategy for 2015-20, 19 per also a great place to cut your Excursions per the golfing adventure of a lifetime! Enjoy stateroom cent of West Australians own a teeth, with a range of bike hires, Maui’s best golf resorts, hand-picked for this Up to US$800 tour, as well as personalised coaching from mountain bike. Almost 120,000 organised tours and lessons on Shipboard Credit per a golfing champion as you play five rounds mountain bikes are purchased offer (margaretriver.com/ stateroom in golfers’ paradise. For tour details visit every year in WA. nature-adventure/mountain- House Beverage Package sevenwesttravelclub.com.au/tours It’s also not just locals getting biking). per stateroom (worth in on the act. It’s estimated half In Dwellingup, mountain US$79.90 per day) a million tourists visit Australia bikes can be hired from town TheThe FinestFinest CuisineCuisine at Sea™ Destination immersion specialists Intimate & luxurious ships June each year for mountain biking. (dwellingupadventures.com.au). “WA is well positioned to Ride within your limits. 2 capitalise on mountain biking TRENDING CANALS & CREATIONS WINERIES & WONDERS BALTIC BALLADS tourism due to its diverse Ashback, on the Kalamunda Looking beyond the day-trip, VENICE TO BARCELONA BARCELONA TO SOUTHAMPTON SOUTHAMPTON TO STOCKHOLM environment, outstanding Circuit, with its many smooth mountain bikers are 12 night voyage | Riviera departs 16 May 2017 12 night voyage | Marina departs 21 May 2017 14 night voyage | Nautica departs 4 Aug 2017 scenery and its range of and flowing berms. increasingly looking for a multi- complimentary existing Blue trails are suitable for day adventure. (Southampton) nature-based and outdoor intermediate riders where some Similar to backpacking, bike- 2016 activities,” Ms Demidenko says. obstacles and technical features packing involves strapping gear Oceania Cruises (Civitavecchia) Marina will be encountered. Check out to your bike via handlebar, Best Mid-Size Ship: Dining (Civitavecchia) THE BASICS the Grizzly Trail at Pile Road, frame and saddlebags. COMPLIMENTARY Ms Demidenko says the key to a Mt Lennard, Wellington Fat bikes are also all the rage Meet the Team #5 - Where to in 2017? good day mountain biking is to National Park. with their oversized tyres that INCLUSIONS: Travel Editor Stephen Scourfield is ride a trail appropriate to your Black diamond or double eagerly eat up sand, loose rock, FREE Dining at all Overnight (Southampton) 3 full days always looking for new destinations experience. black diamond are best reserved and any surface that typical specialty restaurants and for changes in those he knows OLIFE CHOICE OFFER plus EXCLUSIVE CRUISECO US$400 OLIFE CHOICE OFFER plus EXCLUSIVE CRUISECO US$400 Green trails are suitable for for very experienced riders with mountain bikes don’t have the OLIFE CHOICE OFFER FREE 24-hour room well, bringing a wealth of experience + + beginners and less experienced steep gradients, large appetite for. shipboard credit per stateroom! shipboard credit per stateroom! service to the world of travel. Join us for a FREE Unlimited soft glass of wine as Stephen offers new riders. WestCycle mountain unavoidable obstacles and Whether it’s cheating or not, 14 night fl y, cruise & stay holiday includes: 15 night fl y, cruise & stay holiday includes: 16 night fl y, cruise & stay holiday includes: bike co-ordinator Shelby technical trail features. electric and power-assisted • Economy Class airfare from Perth to Venice, returning from • Economy Class airfare from Perth to Barcelona, returning from • Economy Class airfare from Perth to London, returning from drinks, bottled water, suggestions and refreshes our ideas cappuccino, espresso, about some well-known places. This is a Corbett recommends Flaccid Ms Corbett says the newest bikes are one of the fastest- Barcelona London Stockholm black trail, Golden Carrot in growing segments of the bicycle • 1 night stay at the Starhotels Splendid Venice incl. breakfast • 2 night stay at the Grand Hotel Central Barcelona incl. breakfast • 1 night stay at the Radisson Blu Edwardian Berkshire London teas and juices great chance to meet our travel editor, FREE Shuttle service The Pines, Bramley National industry. • 12 night cruise incl. all meals and entertainment on board • 12 night cruise incl. all meals and entertainment on board incl. breakfast chat and ask your questions. Register at from ship to city centre sevenwesttravelclub.com.au/events. Park, Margaret River, is a For the fearless and fit, • 1 night stay at the Grand Hotel Central Barcelona incl. breakfast • 1 night stay at the Radisson Blu Edwardian Berkshire incl. • 14 night cruise incl. all meals and entertainment on board breakfast • 1 night stay at the Hilton Stockholm Slussen incl. breakfast in many ports of call winner. enduro events are also gaining (where available) Preparation is key to safety momentum. These events Veranda Concierge Veranda Veranda Concierge Veranda Inside Oceanview (Obstructed) Veranda FREE Unlimited Internet * * * * * * * Mar when mountain biking, so never involve timed descents and from $8,445pp from $8,895pp from $9,495pp from $9,995pp from $8,895pp from $9,445pp from $11,645pp package per cabin ride alone, ride within your untimed hill climbs over stages. 2 limits and pack supplies The winner is crowned by the CONTACT YOUR CRUISE SPECIALIST TODAY OR VISIT CRUISING.COM.AU including food, water, mobile fastest combined time. phone, spares and equipment. Pump tracks are also WA METROPOLITAN WA COUNTRY becoming popular. 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Ô-Life Choice offer ends 31 Mar 2017: 12 night sailings guests choose 1 offer: 6 Free Shore Excursion per stateroom (3 per guest), US$600 Shipboard Credit per stateroom or a House Beverage Package per stateroom. 14 night sailings guests choose 1 offer: 8 Free Shore Excursions per stateroom (4 per guest), US$800 Shipboard Credit per Kalamunda hills ...... stateroom or a House Beverage Package per stateroom. Shipboard credit is in US$ per stateroom as specifi ed and cannot be redeemed for cash or used for further discount of cruise fare. All offers are based on double occupancy and both guests in the cabin must choose the same amenity/offer. FREE Unlimited Internet is per cabin and is limited to one sevenwesttravelclub.com.au device only. +Bonus Shipboard credit is in addition to the O-Life Choice Bonus offer, is in US$ per stateroom, is non-refundable, has no cash value, expire at the end of that cruise, and can be withdrawn at any time without notice. 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WESTCYCLE’S FAVOURITES, REGION BY REGION Perth: With more than 40km of fully signed single track, the Kalamunda Trails area is the most popular mountain-bike destination in WA for beginner to advanced riders. Peel: Explore in and around Dwellingup with the 1 added bonus of being just 1 ⁄2 hours drive from Perth. The Munda Biddi Trail, Marrinup and Turners Hill Circuit are great trails to try. South West: Set in the forest amid gigantic trees and spectacular scenery, the mountain bike trails are a mix of gravel roads and single track, suitable for beginner to advanced riders. There are great mountain bike trails in There are many trails to explore across WA. Busselton, Margaret River, Dunsborough and Ferguson Valley. A new 10km network just track, sandy and rocky trails. opened up at Compartment 10, Bramley Gascoyne: Enjoy the trails within Cape Range National Park, Margaret River. National Park near Exmouth. Set among the Great Southern: This region offers a superb unique landscape is a mixture of long flowing mix of trails suitable for all types of riders. In trails and tight technical descents. Albany, the 700m Clarence Hill downhill Pilbara: It’s not just about red earth and mining mountain-bike trail is an exhilarating ride with in our north — Karratha includes about 22km of some of the best views of King George Sound. single track, with a skills loop and kids’ loop, Mid West: Chapman River Regional Park is close which are easily accessible from the town. to greater Geraldton and can be experienced via Kimberley: A great selection of mountain biking an 11km loop of various hard packed, single and cycling attractions and activities. com.au) and offers tours, rides, clinics and bike hire. Munda Biddi Mountain Bike Life Hire (perthmountainbike CHOICE OFFER hire.com.au) and Kalamunda EXPLORE IN 2017 Cycles (kalamundacycles. Europe ^ ChooseC ONE of these com.au) both also offer bike ggenerous bonus offers: hire. The Margaret River region is Up to 8 FREE Shore also a great place to cut your Excursions per stateroom teeth, with a range of bike hires, Up to US$800 organised tours and lessons on Shipboard Credit per offer (margaretriver.com/ stateroom nature-adventure/mountain- House Beverage Package biking). per stateroom (worth In Dwellingup, mountain US$79.90 per day) bikes can be hired from town TheThe FinestFinest CuisineCuisine at Sea™ (dwellingupadventures.com.au). Destination immersion specialists Intimate & luxurious ships

TRENDING CANALS & CREATIONS WINERIES & WONDERS BALTIC BALLADS Looking beyond the day-trip, VENICE TO BARCELONA BARCELONA TO SOUTHAMPTON SOUTHAMPTON TO STOCKHOLM mountain bikers are 12 night voyage | Riviera departs 16 May 2017 12 night voyage | Marina departs 21 May 2017 14 night voyage | Nautica departs 4 Aug 2017 increasingly looking for a multi- day adventure. (Southampton) Similar to backpacking, bike- 2016 packing involves strapping gear Oceania Cruises (Civitavecchia) Marina to your bike via handlebar, Best Mid-Size Ship: Dining (Civitavecchia) frame and saddlebags. COMPLIMENTARY Fat bikes are also all the rage with their oversized tyres that INCLUSIONS: eagerly eat up sand, loose rock, FREE Dining at all Overnight (Southampton) 3 full days and any surface that typical specialty restaurants mountain bikes don’t have the OLIFE CHOICE OFFER plus EXCLUSIVE CRUISECO US$400 OLIFE CHOICE OFFER plus EXCLUSIVE CRUISECO US$400 FREE 24-hour room + + OLIFE CHOICE OFFER appetite for. shipboard credit per stateroom! shipboard credit per stateroom! service Whether it’s cheating or not, 14 night fl y, cruise & stay holiday includes: 15 night fl y, cruise & stay holiday includes: 16 night fl y, cruise & stay holiday includes: FREE Unlimited soft electric and power-assisted • Economy Class airfare from Perth to Venice, returning from • Economy Class airfare from Perth to Barcelona, returning from • Economy Class airfare from Perth to London, returning from drinks, bottled water, bikes are one of the fastest- Barcelona London Stockholm cappuccino, espresso, growing segments of the bicycle • 1 night stay at the Starhotels Splendid Venice incl. breakfast • 2 night stay at the Grand Hotel Central Barcelona incl. breakfast • 1 night stay at the Radisson Blu Edwardian Berkshire London teas and juices FREE Shuttle service industry. • 12 night cruise incl. all meals and entertainment on board • 12 night cruise incl. all meals and entertainment on board incl. breakfast from ship to city centre For the fearless and fit, • 1 night stay at the Grand Hotel Central Barcelona incl. breakfast • 1 night stay at the Radisson Blu Edwardian Berkshire incl. • 14 night cruise incl. all meals and entertainment on board breakfast • 1 night stay at the Hilton Stockholm Slussen incl. breakfast in many ports of call enduro events are also gaining (where available) momentum. These events Veranda Concierge Veranda Veranda Concierge Veranda Inside Oceanview (Obstructed) Veranda FREE Unlimited Internet * * * * * * * involve timed descents and from $8,445pp from $8,895pp from $9,495pp from $9,995pp from $8,895pp from $9,445pp from $11,645pp package per cabin untimed hill climbs over stages. The winner is crowned by the CONTACT YOUR CRUISE SPECIALIST TODAY OR VISIT CRUISING.COM.AU fastest combined time. Pump tracks are also WA METROPOLITAN WA COUNTRY becoming popular. These are a APPLECROSS RAC Travel & Cruise DUNCRAIG Sorrento KEY Travel MIDLAND RAC Travel & Cruise NEDLANDS Broadway Travel & Cruise Centre BUNBURY South West Cruise Centre continuous loop of berms and (08) 6150 6459 (08) 9246 1212 (08) 6150 6468 (08) 9389 0588 1800 177 788 rollers (smooth dirt mounds) BICTON Bicton Travel EAST PERTH Orbit World Travel MORLEY RAC Travel & Cruise WEST PERTH RAC Travel & Cruise MANDURAH Champagne Travel (08) 9339 6731 (08) 9421 1720 (08) 6466 2300 (08) 9436 4830 1800 309 971 that you ride without pedalling. The name pump track comes CAROUSEL RAC Travel & Cruise JOONDALUP RAC Travel & Cruise MANDURAH RAC Travel & Cruise (08) 6150 6454 (08) 9308 1600 (08) 6150 6456 from the pumping motion used *Prices are per person, in AUD based on lowest available twin-share accommodation including port charges, government taxes, surcharges, fees and onboard gratuities, correct as at 23 January 2017. Valid for a limited time only, capacity controlled, subject to change/availability, is not combinable with other offers and may be withdrawn/changed at by the rider’s body as they ride any time. Ô-Life Choice offer ends 31 Mar 2017: 12 night sailings guests choose 1 offer: 6 Free Shore Excursion per stateroom (3 per guest), US$600 Shipboard Credit per stateroom or a House Beverage Package per stateroom. 14 night sailings guests choose 1 offer: 8 Free Shore Excursions per stateroom (4 per guest), US$800 Shipboard Credit per ...... stateroom or a House Beverage Package per stateroom. Shipboard credit is in US$ per stateroom as specifi ed and cannot be redeemed for cash or used for further discount of cruise fare. All offers are based on double occupancy and both guests in the cabin must choose the same amenity/offer. 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TRAVELLING SMART MUST-HAVE APPS Apps have a role to play. Where would we be these days without Google Maps? The problem with apps is practicality. Staying (well) connected Personally, I tend to consult with the oracle that is Google for all my questions but, if you want to get all organised, the following are the Technology is supposed to make our lives easier. But travelling can sometimes basics: make it complicated. NICK SAS explores the dos and don’ts of tech and travel. ᔡ XE Currency: It is great having a currency converter readily available and this one is the t all came together in Koh tablet, laptop, smart phone and has three “zones”, with data world’s most popular. Samui, Thailand. Staying in camera? Short answer, no. limits but unlimited calls and ᔡ Citymapper: We don’t have it in Perth yet a remote part of the holiday These days, most things can texts to standard numbers, but this app offers more detailed journey island for a couple of days, I be done on a smart phone. I which are local or international planner information than Google, including found myself in my villa don’t even bring a laptop when fixed-line and mobile numbers. real-time departures and disruption alerts, as Ideciding to watch a movie. working any more — I write Zone 1 in New Zealand starts well as Uber integration and cycle routes. With an in-house selection everything on my phone. And I at $15 for three days of use. A ᔡ Duolingo: We’ve all been there — that awful dominated by the words Van only bring a tablet, sometimes, month is worth $150, with prices moment when you are staring at someone Damme and Seagal I turned to when I know I’ll be somewhere ranging in-between. speaking in another language. Duolingo is the the iPad. where I can sit down and watch Zone 2 is Hong Kong, world’s most popular app to learn a language Despite a patchy internet a movie. Indonesia, Japan, Macau, and it’s fun and easy. But if you need connection (though it was just Keep everything compact and Malaysia, the Philippines, something on the spot, Google Translate is as reliable as my home internet ask do I really need this? Singapore, South Korea, your friend. connection in Subiaco) I went Taiwan, Thailand. Three days is ᔡ Splittr: Another situation we’ve all been in is into my Netflix account, picked MOBILE PLANS $30, a month is $300. the awkward who paid for what? Splittr helps a film and sank into my king- A few years ago, checking Zone 3 is most of Europe and you to split costs and is actually super easy to sized bed. Facebook on your phone while the US, where it costs $45 for use (I know from experience). You add A beach villa, Singha beer on in another country resulted in a three days and $450 for a month. expenses as you go and the app will tell you the bedside table, watching Pulp ridiculous fee. Thankfully the Optus has an “easy-to-use who is next to pay and who owes whom how Fiction on a screen — between telco companies have stopped roaming rate finder” which you much. Easy. All currencies are supported and breaks for a dip in the pool — it the exorbitant charges and now can access on its website. you can even mix them — and the app doesn’t doesn’t get much better. offer competitive overseas Many other companies offer need to be online to work. These days, we can do that. plans. alternatives but practicality is ᔡ Everythere: This start-up from Perth was And in these instances Depending on which telco an issue. created by Stuart Kidd after his partner went technology is beautiful. But it you’re with, most allow you to If you want value, be smart on a team-building exercise where she and her can also get real ugly. keep your mobile phone about it. Buy a SIM card in the colleagues rushed around the city collecting number and use it overseas. country you’re travelling in and clues at different locations. “It was a sort of KEEPING IT SIMPLE Vodafone is probably the best post the number on Facebook if treasure hunt but along the way she learnt Too much of anything is never a value for money with its $5-a- people need to contact you. about different locations. When I heard about good thing. It’s the same with day roaming in Europe, the US, Also, WhatsApp, Viber, Skype it I instantly thought that it could make for a tech. When you’re packing, most of Asia and Brazil (it’s also and Facetime; these guys are great app,” he told Travel. Fast forward to choose your devices with free in New Zealand). your friends. If you have a wi-fi today and the app is here. It is a location- simplicity and practicality in Telstra’s are not exactly value connection, you have a phone based self-guided tour platform allowing you mind. for money but they are better line (and you also have free to take tours through your phone. Is it necessary to bring a than what it had in the past. It data).

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FRANCE am chatting at the information centre of the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres, Belgium, when the question comes. I“Are you Australian?” Obviously there’s no hiding my accent, which has caught the ear of Suzie Hoffman. And guess what. She, too, is Weapons at the Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917. from Perth. Suzie has come to Ypres to in the area, as is standing pay tribute to her great- Tyne Cot Cemetery. Pictures: Malcolm Quekett silently at the ceremony held grandfather, Andrew Hobson, each evening at the Menin Gate, who fought with the British and the Australians on October 4, back in Ypres itself. died nearby in September 1917. It is an emotional 1917. The memorial records the She says he had always been At the Buttes New British names of 55,000 soldiers killed spoken of by her family and she experience to Cemetery, the Fifth Australian in Belgium who have no known decided it was important she Division Memorial rises above a grave, including 6000 made the pilgrimage to see wander among the tall bank, known as the butte. where he had fought during It is an emotional experience World War I. headstones. to wander among the It is a common sentiment. headstones at any of the Australians are travelling in and weapons, audiovisual immaculately kept cemeteries 5 STAR BALI ESCAPE increasing numbers to this part presentations, an amazing 6 NIGHTS FROM of Belgium, the scene of so replica of a dugout and much sorrow and sacrifice by impressive reconstructed their forefathers. trenches. $849PP And Ypres is a natural base From there it is not far to Mulia from which to visit the many some of the always sombre and battlefields, cemeteries and moving cemeteries. EXCLUSIVE BONUS OFFERS memorials. Tyne Cot is the largest British The In Flanders Fields and Commonwealth war Museum is a good place to start. cemetery in the world, with It combines multimedia Headstone at Tyne Cot cemetery. 11,953 headstones of men who experiences with authentic were killed or died of their objects and images to provide visit is the Memorial Museum wounds in defence of Ypres. an informative overview and Passchendaele 1917, a little way Standing above them all, the tell personal stories of the up the road in Zonnebeke. great cross rests on the conflict. This combines displays of remains of a German A reconstructed trench at Memorial Another centre well worth a WWI history, soldiers’ uniforms concrete bunker captured by Museum Passchendaele 1917. ROOM UPGRADE OPTIONS $99PP $399PP Air-mazing Tassie holiday deal!

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Malcolm Quekett, The West Australian’s expert First World War writer, is leading a 10-day tour visiting all the key Australian battlefields in France and Belgium. On this Travel Club Tour, guests will walk in the footsteps of our Diggers, alongside a real expert who will give them a comprehensive understanding of what happened on the famous battlefields. It is a unique opportunity not to be missed. ᔡ The fully escorted tour departs on September 23, and Fifth Australian Division Memorial includes attending the at Buttes New British Cemetery. commemorative service at Polygon Wood, 100 years to the day since the battle Weapons at the Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917. occurred, the D-Day Battlefields and the Bayeux Tapestry Museum. in the area, as is standing Australians. Every evening the school group from Queensland, ᔡ The tour is from $7140 per person, twin share, which Tyne Cot Cemetery. Pictures: Malcolm Quekett silently at the ceremony held Last Post is sounded under the who are clearly moved by the includes return airfares from Perth to Paris, pre and each evening at the Menin Gate, memorial’s arch. experience. post-tour accommodation in Paris, the Australians on October 4, back in Ypres itself. On the evening we attend, a In and around Ypres, it is easy quaint rural hotels throughout the 1917. The memorial records the marching band from Britain to understand exactly why. tour, and many meals. At the Buttes New British names of 55,000 soldiers killed adds a stirring note to the ...... ᔡ Full details at Cemetery, the Fifth Australian in Belgium who have no known sombre proceedings before ᔡ Malcolm Quekett visited Ypres as a sevenwesttravelclub.com.au/tours. Division Memorial rises above a grave, including 6000 wreaths are laid, including by a guest of Visit Flanders tall bank, known as the butte. It is an emotional experience to wander among the headstones at any of the immaculately kept cemeteries 5 STAR BALI ESCAPE 6 NIGHTS FROM $849PP Mulia EXCLUSIVE BONUS OFFERS

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ENGLAND A genteel paradise for belly and brain here are ploughman’s centre makes eight different Food heaven lunches and then varieties and right at this beckons there’s the Ludlow minute I’m wondering how I Kitchen’s ploughman’s can smuggle a few tonnes of the JULIE lunch. Oakly Park cheddar back into TOn the surface it looks like the country. HOSKING in any other — an array of cheese, We wander across to the the medieval cured meats, pickles, relishes centre, where Jon and town of and freshly baked bread — but commercial manager Paul Hill then you taste it and you just take us on a whistlestop tour. Ludlow know that there is something All the different departments special going on here. fan out around the shop floor; 50 And there is. The cafe is per cent of what it sells is made adjacent to the appropriately, if on the premises and 80 per cent unimaginatively, named Ludlow is from the region. Food Centre, smack bang in the There are so many wonderful middle of the 3200ha Oakly Park smells wafting through the air, Estate in picturesque it’s impossible to resist. Shropshire. Unfortunately for my waistline, Owned by the Earl of the first stop is the cheese Plymouth, a descendant of Clive department. “This is what I his lead — stepping back in time Trouble, a program helping of India who made his fortune imagine heaven to be like,” tends to bring out the inner young offenders turn their lives in the subcontinent and bought fellow cheese lover Dilvin says. child. around (he even got them a stall three estates on his return in “Just put me in a place like this We climb the steep, narrow, at the festival); Phil chauffeurs the 1880s, Oakly Park (also for eternity.” circular stairs up towards the for Audi cars, driving celebrities known as Oakley Park) boasts a In the room next door, Julie tower. Although my fear of such as Nigel Mansell and Rita 2400ha farm, two hydro-plants Hawkins is whipping up a magic heights prevents me going all Ora around (he was off later and a solar farm. When the Earl brew. A former wine wonk, the way to the top, the view that week to pick up Downton decided, like so many other she’s turned her expert nose to from halfway is still pretty Abbey’s Joanne Froggatt). estates, to diversify more than a coffee, roasting and grinding spectacular. I look out across decade ago it was a not-so- blends from ethically grown the dappled countryside, humble pig that provided the beans from Central and South autumn leaves ablaze, and try to impetus. America. Like award-winning Cheese at the Ludlow Food Centre. imagine what life would have “We’ve got the largest herd of butcher John Brereton, she’s been like when this was first EXPERIENCE THE WORLD AT so-called Gloucester old spots, a been at the centre more or less bumping into the past. Like the built in the 11th century. very traditional old-brand pig since it opened 10 years ago and plaque on the corner of a Dorothy tells me a designer in AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST & BEST that’s not easy to farm,” general can’t imagine being anywhere building outside Ludlow Castle the 17th century was asked to manager Jon Edwards, says. else. John talks about the which reads: “As Prince of estimate the cost of demolishing “But the results are we think benefit that comes from being a Wales, King Edward V lived in it. Luckily for us, he was rather superior because it gets better whole-carcass butcher, one who Ludlow, returning in April 1483 fond of it, so he deliberately flavour, better coverage. That’s can liaise directly with the to London, where he was overestimated the cost of where the food centre came managers of the various herds probably murdered.” Edward, knocking it down and from; how could we generate an on the estate to ensure 13 and monarch for all of two underestimated the value of the outlet for the old spots.” maximum quality, and with the months, was taken with his stonework. Having just tasted the various kitchens to ensure all younger brother Richard to the It’s pretty darn pleasant for difference — sorry Porky — I parts of the animal are used Tower of London, from where visitors in the 21st. While the can attest to the flavour. As to wisely. they disappeared. Shakespearean performances ENGLAND that of everything else on the Over in the bakery, the tiny Surrounded by quirky have sadly fallen on hard times, plate in front of me, all of which team has been hard at it since buildings hosting largely the grounds are transformed EXCLUSIVE Birmingham is made on the premises. The 3.30am, producing loaves in the independent retailers, with the each September for the Ludlow grain and seed loaf from the same way bakers would have ruins of the castle providing an Food Festival, which chairman bakery, the piccalilli from a tiny done 40 or 50 years ago. Jon impressive backdrop, the Phil Maile and director David EXPO Ludlow RESEARCH, team that churns out 70,000 jars jokes the sourdough starter market square is a hub of Chantler tell us has grown from ADVICE FROM AMAZING INSIDER FREE TRAVEL LONDON given to them by a nearby mill humble beginnings about 21 DEALS COMPARE & BOOK of pickles and relishes a year; activity. Today they’re selling WORLD EXPERTS KNOWLEDGE PRESENTATIONS the cheese, oh the cheese. The is the oldest employee but fresh produce, flowers, years ago, with just two stalls, TWO DAYS ONLY A DREAM HOLIDAY everything else is as fresh as a homemade jams, handicrafts to 180 purveyors of fine food daisy. There’s the delightfully and clothes. and drink filling the grounds of named fidget pie (a ham and Dilvin takes a fancy to a the castle and spilling out into apple pie they’re rather famous kooky but very fetching furry the town. Such is its reputation Next Weekend, 4 & 5 February, 10am – 4pm for), Eccles cakes, Victoria pink hat but we can’t persuade they don’t have to pay celebrity sponges and so many her to buy it. “Where would I chefs huge sums to lure them to Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre FREE weight-defying treats it’s just as wear it in Sydney,” she asks. town; they come anyway. ENTRY well our lovely Blue Badge When she returns the next day Phil and David have so many guide Dorothy Nicolle has to having decided she can’t live wonderful stories to share. Pre-register online at travelexpo.net.au to double your round us up for our next stop. without it, the stallholder isn’t When struggling potato farmer The beautiful market town of there. The local network kicks William Chase didn’t know what chance to win, for expo alerts and express entry. Ludlow is worth the sacrifice. into overdrive and after a series to do with his unwanted It’s perhaps one of Britain’s of phone calls, she happily misshapen spuds 14 years ago, best-preserved medieval towns, drives out to deliver it just he tried his hand at “crisps” as with more than 500 heritage- before we leave Shropshire. they call them in these parts — ALASKA AFRICAN MACHU EVEREST EUROPE listed buildings, many dating Now that’s what I call service. Tyrrells was recently sold to an CRUISE SAFARI PICCHU BASECAMP RIVER CRUISE back to Norman times when As we enter the castle American company for almost Ludlow was the de facto capital grounds, an excited boy yells $500 million. Then there’s of Wales. out: “Dad, Dad, we’re going up people such as Tom Oliver who WIN Reclaimed by Henry VIII in the battlements! Come on!” likes to mix his love of making ONCE IN A LIFETIME * the 1500s, it’s one of those When Dad scampers up after heritage cider and perry with a HOLIDAY! places history nerds like myself him, yelling some indefinable gig as road manager for The travelexpo.net.au could wander around for hours, war cry, I’m tempted to follow Proclaimers. We could talk to this entertaining pair all day. David is a chief probation *Registrant must attend the event on the day for a chance to win a ‘Once In A Lifetime’ holiday. For full terms and conditions, visit www.travelexpo.net.au. NSW Permit No. LTPS/16/09170. ACT Permit No. TP16/02309. 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The view out over the ruins of 11th century fact file Ludlow Castle. Pictures: Julie Hosking ᔡ Ludlow is about 70km from Birmingham. Qatar Airways flies to Birmingham from Perth via Doha, see qatarairways.com. ᔡ Ludlow Food Centre is open seven days a week, ludlowfoodcentre.co.uk. ᔡ The 2017 Ludlow Food Festival is on September 8-10, see foodfestival.co.uk. ᔡ The Clive Hotel offers spacious and beautifully appointed Gardens at Ludlow Food Centre. rooms and a stunning restaurant that makes the most of the produce on its doorstep, theclive.co.uk. in May. Maybe I should just ᔡ Dorothy Nicolle runs coach and walking tours in and move here. It’s beautiful, the around Shropshire, nicolle.me.uk. locals are friendly and full of great stories, and I’ll never want for fabulous food. And despite respecting old building doesn’t the brisk morning air, my have one? It’s one of the best fingers are still intact. Maybe I sleeps I’ve had in years. could handle the winter. The next morning brings After a gin and tonic back at another gastronomic feast in The Clive hotel’s ’s bar, we’re Ludlow Kitchen — bacon, eggs, looking forward to trying one of the 18 different sausages Gloucester old spot pork belly John’s team cranks out, fresh but so it seems were a lot of bread and, of course, freshly other guests. Our delightful brewed coffee. Sadly, no cheese. young waiter Robin is ever-so The previous evening I’d apologetic I feel like we’ve been messaged a friend in Customs transported to a Downton Abbey back home: how hard would it drawing room. We later learn be to get 10 tonnes of cheese into he’s the owner’s grandson, so Australia? In the end, I choose a his lead — stepping back in time Trouble, a program helping I can’t decide whether I need we were in the company of bag full of relishes and sauces tends to bring out the inner young offenders turn their lives to return one year for the landed gentry after all. for presents. Besides, like so child. around (he even got them a stall festival or a month earlier for As I retire to my beautifully many things about my new We climb the steep, narrow, at the festival); Phil chauffeurs Magnalonga, a mouth-watering appointed suite behind the favourite food destination, circular stairs up towards the for Audi cars, driving celebrities walk through the surrounding hotel, belly and brain beyond there’s nothing like eating a tower. Although my fear of such as Nigel Mansell and Rita countryside, where you stop to content, I sink into the king- slice or two where it’s made. heights prevents me going all Ora around (he was off later eat and drink at various local sized bed with nary a thought of ...... the way to the top, the view that week to pick up Downton hotspots on the way. There’s the rumoured ghosts wandering ᔡ Julie Hosking was a guest of from halfway is still pretty Abbey’s Joanne Froggatt). also the Ludlow Spring Festival the buildings — what self- VisitBritain and Qatar Airways. spectacular. I look out across the dappled countryside, autumn leaves ablaze, and try to imagine what life would have been like when this was first EXPERIENCE THE WORLD AT built in the 11th century. Dorothy tells me a designer in AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST & BEST the 17th century was asked to estimate the cost of demolishing it. Luckily for us, he was rather fond of it, so he deliberately overestimated the cost of knocking it down and underestimated the value of the stonework. It’s pretty darn pleasant for visitors in the 21st. While the Shakespearean performances have sadly fallen on hard times, the grounds are transformed EXCLUSIVE each September for the Ludlow Food Festival, which chairman Phil Maile and director David EXPO RESEARCH, Chantler tell us has grown from ADVICE FROM AMAZING INSIDER FREE TRAVEL DEALS COMPARE & BOOK humble beginnings about 21 WORLD EXPERTS KNOWLEDGE PRESENTATIONS years ago, with just two stalls, TWO DAYS ONLY A DREAM HOLIDAY to 180 purveyors of fine food and drink filling the grounds of the castle and spilling out into the town. Such is its reputation Next Weekend, 4 & 5 February, 10am – 4pm they don’t have to pay celebrity chefs huge sums to lure them to Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre FREE town; they come anyway. ENTRY Phil and David have so many wonderful stories to share. Pre-register online at travelexpo.net.au to double your When struggling potato farmer William Chase didn’t know what chance to win, for expo alerts and express entry. to do with his unwanted misshapen spuds 14 years ago, he tried his hand at “crisps” as they call them in these parts — ALASKA AFRICAN MACHU EVEREST EUROPE Tyrrells was recently sold to an CRUISE SAFARI PICCHU BASECAMP RIVER CRUISE American company for almost $500 million. Then there’s people such as Tom Oliver who WIN likes to mix his love of making ONCE IN A LIFETIME * heritage cider and perry with a HOLIDAY! gig as road manager for The travelexpo.net.au Proclaimers. We could talk to this entertaining pair all day. David is a chief probation *Registrant must attend the event on the day for a chance to win a ‘Once In A Lifetime’ holiday. For full terms and conditions, visit www.travelexpo.net.au. NSW Permit No. LTPS/16/09170. ACT Permit No. TP16/02309. SA Permit No. T16/2070. 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Sightseeing tours to major Indonesian Government Railways have thoughtfully attractions are conducted by road coach at each preserved this iconic little railway which runs about stopover. 15 kilometres up a mountainside to the town of The tour commences in the capital, Jakarta, after Bedono. The line is the last remaining section of a the short direct fl ight from Perth. Local sightseeing railway that ran from Yogyakarta to the north coast. tours include China Town, the Jalan Surabaya fl ea This nostalgic excursion is one of many market and the Sunda Kelapa harbour, where the largest fl eet of commercial sailing ships in the highlights of the Great Java Rail Tour, world, load cargo destined for distant islands in the conducted each year since the 1980s by train Indonesian archipelago. buff and Indonesian enthusiast Kevin Pearce. It covers more than 1800 kilometres by rail Kevin calls Jakarta Asia’s best kept secret. He says through some of the most spectacular scenery its grand shopping malls rival those of Singapore you will fi nd anywhere in Asia. but off er prices that will surprise and delight even Tour leader Kevin Pearce and Murray Johnson of Cottesloe the most demanding shoppers. inspect the workings of the 115-year-old locomotive. With a population of more than 140 million, the fertile island of Java is the most densely populated From the bustle of Jakarta, the group embarks on Two nights are spent in the historic Savoy Homann of the famous Armenian family whose collection of island on Earth and its extensive railway system is the fi rst train journey, to Bandung. Hotel with tours to the mountain tea plantations, grand hotels included the the Raffl es in Singapore. used primarily to move people rather than freight. 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