Awesome Australia - Destination Special
The Travel Diaries
Holly Rubenstein
4.5 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to this Awesome Australia Destination Special. Together with much loved guests including Rick Stein, John Torode and Dynamo, we’ll be heading on an Australian adventure across the country, revealing favourite spots, hidden gems and top tips. It’s wanderlust, guaranteed!
It’s June 2021 right now, and unfortunately that means that for most of us travel is currently extremely restricted. So now’s the time to plan your next big bucket list trip - and for me, Australia is top of the list. From the wilderness of The Kimberley, to the red rock of Uluru, Kangaroo Island, Sydney, Melbourne and more, I hope this episode inspires you to visit when we are all able to travel easily again.
Destination Recap:
- The Kimberley, WA
- The King George Falls, The Kimberley, WA
- Adelaide, SA
- Coober Pedy, SA
- Alice Springs, NT
- Torres Strait Islands, QLD
- Sydney, NSW
- Wolgan Valley, The Blue Mountains, NSW
- Melbourne Lane Ways, VIC
- Federation Square, Melbourne, VIC
- Queensland Coast, QLD
- Western Australian wildlife trifecta, WA
- Ningaloo Reef, WA
- Kangaroo Island, SA
- Uluru, NT
Thank you to John Torode, Rick Stein, Rachel Khoo, Peter Grunert, Tony Wheeler, Dynamo and Phoebe Smith for being a part of today’s episode.
For more information about planning your own trip to Australia head to australia.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, gooday and welcome to the Travel Diaries and this awesome Australia destination special. |
| 0:14.0 | It's been a while and I'm so excited to be back, especially with today's episode. |
| 0:18.4 | This is one I've been working on for a while. |
| 0:20.8 | Australia is one of the most mentioned destinations on the podcast. It is so loved by the people |
| 0:26.8 | who visited it or lived there. And I, as someone who has never been but has always wanted to go, |
| 0:33.0 | I found that during lockdown I've been thinking more about those big bucket list trips and my mind |
| 0:38.9 | is just kept wandering to those sunny beaches of Australia. So I decided this had to be a destination |
| 0:45.1 | special, one where we can all learn a bit more about this amazing country. So we're going to go |
| 0:51.2 | on an Australian adventure. We've got names like Rick Stein, Rachel Koo, |
| 0:56.9 | Dynamo, John Terode, and many more sharing their favourite Aussie spots. And I've enlisted |
| 1:03.0 | the help of Australian destination experts who've helped me put together a kind of tour for all |
| 1:08.5 | of us to go on with tips and suggestions along the way. |
| 1:12.5 | So let's get started. Normally, many airlines operate to most Australian cities. The majority have |
| 1:19.1 | one stop over in the Middle East or Asia. And in 2018, Qantas launched the first non-stop service |
| 1:25.8 | connecting the UK to Australia Australia with its flights from London |
| 1:29.7 | to Australia's westernmost city, Perth. And it's here that we start our journey today. So what can I |
| 1:35.1 | tell you about Perth? Well, it receives more annual days of sunshine than any other Australian city. |
| 1:40.9 | It has this great cosmopolitan feel, but with beautiful beaches, the vineyards and |
| 1:46.0 | distilleries of the Swan Valley on the outskirts. There's Rotnest Island, which is home to the |
| 1:50.8 | world's happiest animal, the Quaker, and that's just a short ferry ride from the city centre. |
| 1:56.4 | And the famous Margaret River wine region is just a few hours south. A quick hop on a domestic flight up the coast from Perth to the northwest corner gets us to |
| 2:06.8 | Broome, a city in which the outback and the beach meet. |
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