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French Champagne Growers’ Climate Change Effects Plus Tyson Stelzer’s Top Sparkling -Graeme Kemlo

Graeme Kemlo — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 09:23:47 +0000

He wrote “the book” on Champagne and is a multi-award winning Wine Communicator of the Year and |Tysn Stwlzer has been an important part of our team for more than a decade. Recently he visited France, not to meet the usual Champagne Housesm but to speak with the grape growers about how they are affected by climate change and world geo-politics. Tyson tells Graeme Kemlo that in speaking to senior winemakers, they told him they believe, as he also believes, that Tasmania is producing the world’s best sparkling wines now. Tysin also shares his best suggestions for what sparkling wine to buy with our nominal $100 budget.
Photo: Tyson on tour at Residence Eisenhower in the Champagne region.Read More

Karin Avila with Colin Sadhu Simonds on Expat Life, Love and Community

Graeme Kemlo — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 04:24:19 +0000

Our Spain correspondent Karin Avila has a story of Life Love and Community Abroad as Karin meets a retired author, Colin Sadhu Simonds – both of them are expats and travellers searching for connection.Read More

Helen Hayes Details Her Delight On Turkish Airlines

Graeme Kemlo — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 05:07:00 +0000

Helen Hayes Details Her Delight On Turkish Airlines by Travel Writers Radio produced by the Professional Associatioon of Lifestyle and TravelWriters (PALAT)Read More

60 Years of Sound Of Music Gala Celebration in Salzburg -Helen Hayes

Graeme Kemlo — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 05:41:41 +0000

Last week in Salzburg, Austria, Helen Hayes was living the dream among the family that is the Sound of Music – the Von Trapp family and the thousands of fans like Helen who appreciate what the Sound of Music has achieved in its 60 year history as a stage musical and then a box office smash hit movie.Read More

Nicholas Hammond on Sound Of Music’s 60th Anniversary -Helen Hayes

Graeme Kemlo — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 06:45:00 +0000

Cast member of the Sound of Music movie, Nicholas Hammond talks to Helen Hayes about his memories of film which was mostly shot in Salzburg Austria. The movie which is one of the most watched of all time is celebrating its 60th anniversary this week and Helen flew to Salzburg to take part in the celebrations but she spoke with Micholas befre she left and asked him what he thought were the reasons this movie iwas such a global success.Read More

#Worth1000Words Bote de Vino by Karin Avila

Graeme Kemlo — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 20:31:02 +0000

This image from our Spain-based correspondent, Karin Avila pays homage to the matador and we think it is definitely #Worth1000WordsRead More

Recreating the famous Kangaroo Route from Australia to the UK – Graeme Kemlo

Graeme Kemlo — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 09:12:22 +0000

Back in the 1940s, getting to London from Australia involved a four-month cruise or a four-day flight that hopped via Darwin to Singapore, Calcutta, Karachi, Cairo, Tripoli and Rome. It was known as the Kangaroo Route. Today you can fly there in 17 hours 30 minutes from Perth. But Graeme Kemlo discovers a 14-day nostalgic nod to the Kangaroo Route in the latest Airbus, A330 300. He speaks with the CEO of Captain’s Choice, Bas Bosschieter.
Photo: The Kangaroo Route 1940s Constellation, supplied by Captain’s ChoiceRead More

Adam Boaz Becca Using AI To Aid Israeli-Palestinian Peace Perspectives -Bridgett Leslie

Graeme Kemlo — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 02:02:44 +0000

New York correspondent Bridgett Leslie speaks to an Artificial Intelligence expert who is leveraging AI Tools to better help people understand the differing perspectives of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Bridgett speaks with Adam Boaz Becca, founder of Headon.ai
Photo by Bridgett LeslieRead More

Postcard Perfect Interlaken is at the peak of Swiss tourism – Mike Smith with Renato Julier

Graeme Kemlo — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 09:49:29 +0000

To the people of Switzerland’s Interlaken, their home and the alps that shadow it are nothing less than postcard perfect. It’s more than a destination.
It’s an experience, all year round, with rail travel helping the tourist industry’s clockwork perfection.
Reporter Mike Smith catches up with Interlaken Tourism’s Renato Julier to find out what makes the Swiss centre and its surrounds – Grindelwald and Jungfrau included – so popular.Read More

Off The Beaten Path On A Visit to Armenia -Alistair Smith

Graeme Kemlo — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 09:09:59 +0000

Alistair Smith loves to travel to less usual places where he makes the time to find those interesting angles that bring foreign tourism to life. This week he tells Graeme Kemlo about his visit to Armenia, a small landlocked country in the southern caucuses that was the first country in the world to adopy Christianity as its official religion, despite being overrun by Russia, Turkey and Iran at varioud periods of its history.
Photo Armenia with Mt Ararat in the distance -Courtesy Angela Yee JoyRead More