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Darwin's family and other animals

The plane was waiting on the airstrip, a narrow clearing in the rainforest next to the fast-moving current of the Rio Pastaza

Tasmania: Welcome to the end of the line

Jack Straw's famous claim to be "tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime" wouldn't have had the same ring in the early 19th century

Victoria's mourning glory

How to escape the cares of ruling one-fifth of the planet's landmass and two-fifths of its population, the largest empire the world has ever seen? Britain's greatest monarch

Trail Of The Unexpected: Off-road in Queensland

"Get a bicycle," Mark Twain advised readers of his Taming the Bicycle essay

Off the beaten (dog)track

October 1996 marks the centenary of the death of Walthamstow's most famous son, poet, artist, designer, socialist and much else besides, William Morris. No doubt the merited fanfares

Trail of the unexpected

The mouth of Macquarie Harbour, on Tasmania's rugged west coast, is notorious among seafarers. The treacherous channel, just 120 miles wide

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Trail Of The Unexpected: Cuba

The walls of the café were dotted with pictures of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. The waiter, who was sporting a flowing white shirt and long, dark locks

Tasmania: Walk this way for luxury

A very dramatic-looking hotel features on the title page of Australian Architecture Now

Something To Declare: closedown in Europe; clock on in Au...

Warning of the week: closedown in Europe


Something To Declare: Australia; premium-rate numbers; hi...

Third time lucky? Britain's biggest holiday company, Thomson, hopes its latest attempt at a winter charter flight to Australia will prove more successful than its two previous efforts.


Tasmania: Jewel of the isle

The river, Guinness-black, seems utterly still, its surface polished obsidian, reflecting every detail of the early morning scene. A dense fringe of tea trees

Grand tours: Somewhere under this bush is El Dorado

Born in 1936, John Blashford-Snell, one of the world's most respected explorers, studied at Victoria College, Jersey, before entering The Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. Richard Snailham

Travel: Shirt tales

T-SHIRTS get around these days, too. Sitting on a tour bus in a barren part of Australia's Northern Territory, I found myself surrounded by people wearing souvenirs of Bali, Barbados

Students: write your way to Australia

While you spend February in UEA rather than the USA, or UCE instead of the UAE

All-night queuers claim £10 Australia tickets

All-night queueing paid off for lucky travellers today as they snapped up special £10 tickets to Australia.


Tasmania: A real corker

I was due to fly in to Launceston the next morning

All I want for Christmas is a city break

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See the sights: Don't miss the bicentenary Darwin exhibition at the Natural History Museum (020-7942 5000;nhm.org ).


On the tail of a tiger in Tasmania

On a bright summer morning in the back end of Tasmania's north-west

Departures: Oz means business

AN INCREASING number of tourists flying to Australia are paying the extra to upgrade to business class, according to long-haul specialist Quest Worldwide (081-547 3322).

Whatever are they doing to Bondi Beach?

In the lead up to the Olympics

The Travel Issue: Alice Springs in September

A police van noses up and down Todd Mall in Alice Springs, past galleries displaying indigenous artworks

`I was slack-jawed in astonishment. The Bungle Bungle is ...

"If you think this is good," they said when I visited Ayers Rock, "just wait till you see the Bungle Bungle."

Arrivals/Departures: You don't need a stiff drink to take...

Apparently one person in three has some sort of fear of flying

PACKED LIVES

Last year I went to Australia, Ethiopia, the United States, Canada, Malawi, South Africa, Zambia twice, Zimbabwe and Botswana

Fantastic voyage: Travels with Charles Darwin

On the 6th of January we reached Teneriffe, but were prevented landing," wrote Charles Darwin. In the winter of 1831-32, 10 days out of Plymouth, the first shore excursion from his "ten-gun brig"

Lena Corner: Woman About World

Greeted by wet-nosed sniffer dogs, a tropical rainstorm, and an episode of Australia's Funniest Home Videos blaring from a screen above the baggage carousel

Five Best: Outback lodges

Longitude 131º, Northern Territory


The crocodiles were pretty scary. Nearly as frightening a...

Ever since my father related his crocodile story from his Merchant Navy days, I have wanted to visit Australia's northern coast myself

Where Attenborough documentary turns Hitchcock thriller

"WE SEEM to be brought near to that great fact, that mystery of mysteries, the first appearance of new beings on this earth

Turn that trip to Australia into a two-centre holiday

Autumn is upon us, prompting dreams of heading for the sun and the longer daylight hours of the southern hemisphere. Those lucky enough to be flying to Australia will need to break the journey

Queensland: The turtle rescue centre that gives an insigh...

On the map of Australia, the Cape York Peninsula looks like a small, wonky witch's hat in the far north-east – but England could slide into it with room to spare. The region's coastal dunes

Cheap fares to South Africa; Book ahead for Australia and NZ

THE COLUMN THAT GIVES THE GLOBAL PICTURE


Simon Calder: 'The dawg' is here. But will it win our hea...

"One pound, please." The proprietor of the café in Bulleid Way, above Victoria in central London, generously gave me the driver's discount rate for two coffees – one for me

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