The World Awaits: travel tales to inspire your wanderlust
Where does your wanderlust lead you?
To Melbourne’s cafes or the vast deserts of the Empty Quarter, a New Zealand vineyard or the pavements of New York… what’s your neighbourhood?
Join travel journalists and editors Kirstie Bedford and Belinda Jackson for inspiring stories and inside information from across the world.
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The World Awaits: travel tales to inspire your wanderlust
Latest Episodes
EP 157 Intriguing stories behind the world's most popular landmarks; hotels to have on your radar & costly travel mistakes
"The Eiffel Tower was a crucial tool of espionage when WWI broke out, helping to catch a spy credited with causing up to 50,000 deaths... she was funnelling information back to the Germans after she weaponised her beauty to beguile them," says ...
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Vale rock historian & travel journalist Glenn A Baker
This week, the travel community farewells Glenn A Baker, who was not only a rock historian and journalist, but an avid traveller who'd visited more than 150 countries, documenting his travels in books and the Australian media. An ac...
EP 156 ¡Vamos a Argentina! Sultry tango, huge steaks and epic roadtrips: plan the perfect Argentina itinerary
Stylish and sultry, home of the tango, gargantuan steaks and runners up in the World Cup - this week we're going to Argentina! Melbourne-based travel consultant, writer and serial expat Rebecca Arnold has called Buenos Aires home, and is just b...
EP 155 Hot Take: Travel books - from modern pilgrimages to destination crime & the top Aussie tourist spots
We're talking travel books, starting with some of the favourites of the man behind travel guide books, Lonely Planet co-founder Tony Wheeler.We also chat about our favourite travel books: non-fiction for co-host Belinda Jackson, includin...
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EP 154 Winter Series: Adventurers - filmmaker Dianne Whelan on the Trans Canada Trail & Tim Jarvis AM's Antarctic journeys
This week have interviews with two remarkable adventurers.At 50, filmmaker Dianne Whelan set out to walk and kayak the longest trail in the world, the 24,000km-long Trans Canada Trail. Her film,
