Regan Schoultz stays at a Queensland hotel with some funky design features.

Now's the perfect time to live lavishly in Australia, writes Megan Singleton.

No one wants to look a fool opening a bottle of Champers. Kevin Pilley finds a quick sword blow does the trick.

Kili Tamua takes a domestic hop across Mexico aboard AIJ2623.

These major sporting events are worth travelling to, writes Megan Singleton.

Lions and cheetahs roar and hippos bellow while Michele Crawshaw and her son try to sleep just metres away.

Explore Amsterdam on foot or bike. It's a great way to see a city that heaves with history and life, writes Mike Corder.

Kiwi David Reihana has carved out a career as a top chef with a major cruise line, writes Winston Aldworth.

On a sombre drive in Turkey, Wynne Gray shakes his head at the futility of the deaths of so, so many young men in a foreign land.

To the people of Beqa Island sharks are friends. Nicholas Jones tested that trust.

Sydney's arts community wants the city to become the country's cultural capital, finds Lynley Bilby.

Venice is the setting for Nicky Pellegrino's new novel. On a fact-finding visit she strayed into richly rewarding back streets.

'Game of Thrones' season five is due to hit TV screens on Monday and for those struggling to wait just that little bit longer, here is Expedia's list of 'Game of Thrones' locations around the world.

Paul Davies stays at a full-service lifestyle hotel close to Waikiki Beach.

A small crew of volunteers work around the clock when an ill turtle comes their way, writes Shandelle Battersby.

Go local when it comes to food, Nicholas Jones discovers at a cooking school in Fiji.

Rum cocktails are de rigueur on the French island of Reunion, finds Kevin Pilley.

Dylan Cleaver flies NZ1127 from NZ to Oz.

Paul Rush discovers the enigmatic beauty and brilliance of black pearls in the waters of Fiji.pacific

In the Canadian wilderness, Winston Aldworth sees how sometimes in life you're the bear and sometimes you're the salmon.

Bev Wood experiences the Italian capacity for both wild frenzy and languid indolence.

Whale watching in Tonga goes extreme when Jane Jeffries hops in with the cetaceans.

Each week, expat Kiwis tell us what they most love about living by Queensland's beaches. Today we hear from writer Lee Mylne.

Chris Leadbeater makes the most of a short visit to the harbour city.

Searching for the trip of a lifetime? Book a seat aboard one of these magnificent trains ...

Justine Tyerman suspects there is a secret ingredient in Swiss chocolate which anaesthetises the conscience ...

Grant Bradley flies QF142 across the Ditch.

Megan Singleton on the favourite tricks con artists play on unwary travellers.

John Coomber finds inconveniences don't bother him a bit on a cross-country rail trek.

Paul Rush meets creatures both noble and dangerous in waters of astonishing clarity.