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Stefan Szepesi – Walking to Diplomacy
It can be a fascinating thing, stepping out of your natural environment at the Adventure Travel Show. You start talking about somewhere familiar, and before you know it, the path has led you to another world. Take Stefan Szepesi. We connected over his Australian...
Andre Brugiroux: the last country on the list
We like to think we’ve got about a bit (in a geographical, well-travelled sense, you understand). Travelling Australia may be our passion but we’ve done more than our fair share of globetrotting elsewhere too. Then we met Andre Brugiroux at the Adventure Travel Show....
James Willcox at the Adventure Travel Show 2016
James Willcox is the co-founder of Untamed Borders, an adventure travel company that specialises in getting people off the beaten track. Want a week by an infinity pool? He’s not your man. Want to tackle the Marathon of Afghanistan? He most definitely is your man (not...
Quizzing a Guinea Pig – Hugo Turner
Hugo and Ross Turner are twins. They’re also the ‘Adventure Guinea Pigs’. They work with King’s College London’s Department of Twin Research to help advance scientific medical understanding – subjecting themselves to often obtrusive and rigorous testing on their...
Meeting David Lindo – The Urban Birder
Global Grapevine, the Australian travel specialists, talk travel technology and Tasmanian Tigers with David Lindo at the Adventure Travel Show 2016.
Cape York Queensland Australia
Brilliant Adventure’s Adam and Briohny are no strangers to travelling Australia. Now there’s a new member of the family (Ruby) to initiate into the ways of Australian exploration.
Adventure Travel Show 2016 speakers announced
Ok. Now we're excited. The Adventure Travel Show 2016 has announced its speaker line-up, and it might just be the best they've ever had. When it comes to travel inspiration, you can't beat listening to someone who's been there and done that. This year's ATS speakers...
FCO/KBYG networking
This usually works the other way around. But now, it's the FCO sharing Global Grapevine's Australian travel information. We don't like to blow our own trumpet. Oh who are we kidding - we love to blow our own trumpet. And last week was something to get excited about....
No ordinary photo competition: enter Strange World at the ATS 2016
A photo competition that's looking for the weird, the eccentric and the just plain daft? We're flying the flag for Australia. We'll see your Boring, Oregon and raise you a Humpybong, Queensland. And for every sniggersome Brown Willy in the UK (it's in Cornwall), we've...
Travelling Australia with a mental health condition? Mind how you go
In just the last 5 years, the number of British nationals travelling overseas with mental health needs has increased by almost 50%. If you're planning your trip to Australia and have a mental health condition - or you're travelling with someone who has - make sure you...
5 Stunning Australian Islands
With over 8000 islands, we were spoilt for choice when it came to picking from all the Australian paradises out there. This list is just a smattering of a few of our favourite oases in the blue. Do you agree with our choices? Any obvious absences? Let us know your...
The emigration game
A couple of months not enough to travel Australia? How about a lifetime? According the Office of National Statistics, 43,000 people left the UK to live in Australia during 2013 (the most recent figures). Australia is the UK's most popular emigration nation, with more...
The Many Faces of Australia’s Beaches
The Coastal Studies Unit at the University of Sydney counted 10,685 beaches in Australia. Maybe that's why over 85% of Aussies live within 50km of the coastline! We've picked out a few of our favourite patches of sand but we could have easily gone on and on. Whatever...
Australia to the US by bike – Luke Yates’ latest
Last October, Luke Yates begin a cycling adventure that would see him travel from Perth in Western Australia to New York City in the United States. We caught up with the adventurer one year on. Luke Yates wanted an adventure. He had graduated from university and taken...
6 Great Apps for Travelling Australia
We've been trawling the net and we've found some more great apps to add to your smartphone when you're travelling Australia. Get downloading, and let us know if you have any others to add. Pocket Australia and the internet aren't always best friends, especially when...
#holidaywin?
How the Foreign Office is trying to encourage young travellers to Australia (and everywhere else) to enjoy a #holidaywin instead of a #holidayfail. Curse you. You're young. The world is your lobster (as someone once said). You've yet to discover the joys of mortgages,...
Must-Pack Australian Travel Accessories
10 (ish) Must-Pack Travel Accessories Google 'best travel gadgets' when you're planning your trip to Australia and you'll be led to a list of all the newest techy travel gizmos. But what you really want to know is which are the most useful. We've chatted to a whole...
What’s On In Canberra In September
You're visiting Australia. Your travels have taken you South. And now you're stood outside the bus depot in Canberra wondering what happens next. Happily, we're here to make travelling Australia easier. So dump the backpack, settle back, and find out what's on in...
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