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Sydney Opera House, Night

Interesting Facts About Sydney Opera House

As part of one of our Australia holiday packages, the Visions of Australia tour or the Wonders of Australia tour, you’ll have the opportunity to visit Sydney and one of Australia’s most famous landmarks – the Sydney Opera House. Before you visit one of the city’s greatest buildings, we’ve got a few interesting facts about the Opera House to whet your appetite: (more…)..

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Bare Kiwi Promotional video snapshot

Fantastic Funny Video Shows

A pair of Kiwis who love their country have created a fantastic viral video to encourage people to visit the land of the long white cloud – and also to stay there! The video is the brainchild of BareKiwi, and shows a pair of stereotypical competitive Kiwi grans. When the first gran’s grandson comes to visit he brings with him a photo album packed with pictures from his trip around Europe, and gran..

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Foodfest

Melbourne: Food and Wine Festival

The Melbourne Food and Wine Festival once again returns for 2015, taking place in Queensbridge Square and other areas of Melbourne between February 27th and March 15th. This is one event we would love to visit on our holidays to Australia! (more…)..

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Carols by Candlelight

Christmas celebrations in Australia

Even if you love your British Christmas traditions, have you ever been curious to experience Christmas in another country? Australia may be the perfect first step in experiencing a Christmas abroad, as it maintains many of our British traditions while adding many of their own cultural twists. With their Christmas being in the height of summer, celebrating Christmas in the sun may be a welcome chan..

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Adelaide, water view

Tourism in South Australia is on the rise

A report by the National Visitor Survey has shown that both domestic and international tourism is increasing for the South Australia region, which includes the thriving city of Adelaide at its heart. (more…)..

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New Zealand Mountains, Lakeside view

New Zealand wins Best Country category at Telegraph Travel Awards

New Zealand has once again taken one of the top prizes at the Telegraph Travel Awards, winning the Best Country category for the third year running. (more…)..

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Marlborough Fields

NZ: Marlborough waves the tourism flag

While New Zealand is world renowned as a fantastic place to visit, its most famous wine region is claiming to be the best bit. That’s because tourism chiefs in the Marlborough region, at the top of the South Island and world famous for the wine it produces, have decided to market their region as “Brilliant every day”. The campaign has been launched at the same time as figures have been released sh..

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Diner en Blanc Sydney

Diner en Blanc returns to Sydney

The exclusive and incredibly popular dinner party Diner en Blanc returned to Sydney at the weekend, entertaining over 4000 guests lucky enough to attend. (more…)..

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New Zealand Mountain river tour

Why is New Zealand such a hot destination?

New Zealand is among the hottest places to holiday in the whole world right now, but just why is that? The news comes after an analysis of data from the world’s elite travel agents and travel providers, which shows the country is experiencing a huge surge in bookings. So we wondered why that was…. (more…)..

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Mark Ella | Australian Rugby Legend

Greatest Australian Athletes in The World

Just like us here in the UK the Australians are mad about sport. We have famous sport personalities who we take into our hearts and love nothing more than to watch as they take to the field, track or court and ‘do their thing.’ For some of us though, the days have passed for our beloved sport stars to grace their chosen sport with their presence, but this doesn’t mean they aren’t great. In homage..

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