By Catriona Rowntree
María Luisa Valcarce is Concierge at Room Mate Larios, which opened in Málaga, Spain in 2007. Room Mate Hotels' global philosophy is that the best way to travel is to stay with friends "with unique personalities, who take us by the hand in each city and with whom we share a way of life". Room Mate ...
I love big, dirty, exciting cities, and I’ve never arrived in Barcelona without a sense of excitement, of possibility, a fluttering in the stomach. Barcelona is like an older, messier, southern hemisphere sibling of Melbourne. I love the food, the drink, the architecture, the beach, the masses of people, even the smell. It feels like ...
I write to you with weary eyes as I’m staying up late in Fairbanks, Alaska, to see if I can see my first Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis. Tired eyes aside, I’ve such a full heart after an incredible trip travelling through the wilderness and Inside Passage of Alaska and Canada before that. You know those ...
Last year, topped with my green fedora, I led an 18-day tour of gardens and cultural icons of Spain with ASA Cultural Tours. It was a hoot! Not only the must-sees like the Alhambra in Granada, but dreamy garden landscapes with olives and wild flowers not normally open to the public. Afterwards my wife Lynda ...
Need some travel inspiration? Feel like taking a trip but need to batten down the hatches at the moment? Put in your earbuds and take a journey, with us... In our podcast episodes to date, we have criss-crossed Asia and the Middle East on the airwaves, specifically: Exploring Shanghai again with Australian author Kirsty Manning and Dubai ...
Join Catriona Rowntree for the first-ever Journeys to Come virtual forum bringing Australia’s travel sector together to welcome people back to travel.
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