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Travel blogs and features from the Oceania region including Australia and New Zealand

The Hunter Valley is a significant wine region in New South Wales, about three hours from Sydney. It’s essentially the birthplace of wines, particularly Semillon and Shiraz, and has many world-renowned brands and family-run boutiques. It’s easy to assume that if you’ve been to one wine region, you’ve been to them all, but there’s something …

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Bucket list item unlocked! Australia, for some reason, conjures up images of untamed wildlife, raw natural beauty and a terrifying fear of death by nature. I’m not sure where all of that comes from, but somehow there’s this image of Australia’s natural wildlife as this scary entity. Blame Bill Bryson and his book. In reality, while …

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I was standing at the bar ordering my Friday-night drink of choice—a vodka tonic—when I heard it. The snapping fingers, then the clapping, and then that beat. I couldn’t help myself. My hips we’re shaking. “I’ll be fine.” It was the theme song to Please Like Me—a hit Australian TV series that’s become my latest obsession. …

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