greater port macquarie | manning-great lakes | new england | coffs coast 
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.
It’s mid-winter and I’m spending a weekend away exploring Coffs Coast. Coffs – our country cousin to the north, our nearest and dearest, yet different in many ways. But, while Coffs vies vigorously with Port and Taree for a share of the tourist dollar, it shares so much in common with us.
Ricardoes Tomatoes’ farm gate enterprise looks deceptively simple. Behind the scenes there’s experience, hard work – and big plans ahead, as co-owner Anthony Sarks reveals.
Otto and I are in Sydney, staying in splendour at – officially – the city’s best hotel.
Susie Boswell assesses online travel sites vs. travel agents’ advice.
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.
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.
Relaxing these days in Port Macquarie is a man who was at the centre of the State’s most disturbing deaths, disappearances and murders. Susie Boswell meets former NSW State Coroner Derrick Hand.
Susie Boswell chats over lunch with Port’s most popular newsman, Nick O’Callaghan.
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