Susie Boswell enjoys a total change of scenery, some fine wines, a challenging 18 holes and a couple of days packed with fun, just a few hours’ drive from home.
I’m playing the first hole at Cypress Lakes Golf and Country Club Resort in the Hunter Valley. It’s a reasonably comfortable, loosen-up par 5 running down to the country road that threads between the nearby big-name wineries and their cellar doors.
Susie Boswell assesses online travel sites vs. travel agents’ advice.
If you were building a barbecue deck at your home, spending hard-earned cash on a leisure facility, would you call in a specialist or DIY? We don’t do our own dental work or surgery: we use the experts. So when do we decide our expertise is adequate and the savings in dollars and time sufficient to justify DIY? Travel’s one essential service where the question arises: go online/call direct to make my bookings… Or do I use a travel agent?
The Sheraton Rio de Janeiro sits at the tip of a pleasure playground stretching for kilometres along the golden sands and superb surf of upbeat Copacabana and trendy Ipanema. Girls in string bikinis, bronzed volley ball players and accomplished roller-bladers throng the boardwalks and beaches that skim the Atlantic Ocean shoreline. The scene is sheer fun; I couldn’t wait to join in.
We’re being urged to holiday at home this year, so no better time to visit Broome – an intriguing destination so many Aussies wonder about, but comparatively few take the plunge to enjoy. Remote in the far north-west of our country, these days it’s easy to reach, just hours by air from the eastern seaboard via Adelaide, Darwin or Alice Springs.
