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My travel life: Nicholas Gleeson, blind traveller

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THE TRAVELLER. Nicholas Gleeson, winner of the Australian Geographic Spirit of Adventure Award 2019, disability advocate and consultant. My last travel destination was. I will always love to travel because. I love to travel to do new things, be it to compete in an event, to discover something new or to experience nature.

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Melbourne to Sydney: New vintage rail journey aboard the Spirit of Progress launches in March 2020

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An old train will bring a slow-travel mentality to what has become a commuter run, when the newly commissioned Spirit of Progress makes her first journey in 33 years between Melbourne and Sydney in March. A historic photo of the Spirit of Progress 1937 in Melbourne. The parlor car on the new Spirit of Progress.

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Traveller letters: Priority stickers on suitcases are meaningless

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Gripe number one: my experience of collecting my “priority tagged bags for first-off-the-carousel convenience” is way different to that of Julie Miller’s (Traveller, ) in her Flight Test review. I want to commend the use of travel agents in this rapidly changing world of travel. STRANGER DANGER.

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Lost Spirits distillery, Los Angeles: An adults-only theme park in LA’s ‘Heart of Darkness’

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Bryan Davis and his partner Joanne Haruta recreate alcohol from decades past with a Jurassic Park- like science, hence the name ‘lost spirits’ Whiskies and rums that taste like they’ve aged 20 years are produced at lightning speed and have been gathering accolades since the distillery flung open its mysterious door back in 2016.

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Travel overseas and coronavirus: The 11 things I miss the most

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When you can’t travel, that global network of friends and family members that you’ve been so lucky to cultivate becomes reduced to a sea of faces on a computer screen. But during these times of lockdowns and travel bans, you also miss more about the world. You miss people, obviously. You miss old acquaintances.

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Best 20 movies about travel: The films that make us want to visit spectacular destinations

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However, the best travel films don’t just offer us a sense of place, they capture the power and transformative nature of a journey and more often than not, inspire us to set out to discover for ourselves what lies beyond the horizon. Two surfers from California travel the world in this documentary directed by Bruce Brown.

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Go wild for wildlife: After weeks cooped up at home, why not revive your spirits with one of these thrilling breaks

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When the world finally reopens to travel, many of us may want to get close to nature after being cooped up at home for so long. . Book it : A six-night trip including accommodation, meals and travel from £1,735pp (). Book it : From £1,625 pp per day for nine days, based on four travelling together (). Bears in Finland .

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