Travel

Lessons of the Cod Wars

The Dying Game

The stories of the repeated attempts to climb Nanga Parbat (8126 m) in the Kar-akoram, do not need to be continued very...

My, how they’ve changed

WHEN Sydney won the right to hold the 2000 Olympics, it signalled a major transformation for inner-western suburbs such as Homebush Bay,...

Get a life people keep telling me … I’d love to

It’s 12.30 am on a wet, wet Sunday in Hobart. It’s been raining for almost three days solid. Grey is the colour...

New thought urged on Tarkine tourism

OFF the top of his head, Graeme Wood reels off potential business ideas that could work in the Tarkine. Drop off and...

Relaxing the body; rejuvenating the mind …

There seem to be two types of short breaks away from home. One is specifically oriented towards events and activities — perhaps...

Saffire: You can start crying now

Do the figures, on why Federal Hotels will close this white elephant as soon as they think they have satisfied the contractual...

Another night, in paradise

Here I am, sitting at a table with interesting new people, meandering into Gerard Manley Hopkins and Shakespeare, boring my travel industry...