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Off The Beaten Track

Driving the historic Mallee Highway: What you need to know

To get from Victoria to South Australia, many people choose the Great Ocean Road. Others follow the Murray from its source to the sea. But the inland route along the often-overlooked B12 highway is a drive worth taking for its historic country towns, grazing land, pink-hued lakes, salt dunes and wild mallee scrub.

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Ferrari Drive Day

We invite non car nut Zoe Naylor to review the Prancing Horse Ferrari Drive Day.

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Peugeot Launches Head Up Driving

Quentin Long takes the latest Peugeot for a spin without his fearful wife.

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Shop like a chef at Simon Johnson’s

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The Motorcycle Diaries: Part 1

Zoe Naylor has taken her first tottering steps in a lifelong love affair with a motorcycle. So if you’ve been tempted by the thrill of the ride and the wind in your hair, hop on and hold tight.

Oasis of the Seas will also hold the first ever full amphitheatre at sea.

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Introducing the World’s Biggest Ship: The Oasis of the Seas

If it’s not a world’s first, it’s a world’s largest. That’s right, the Royal Caribbean’s new ship, Oasis of the Seas, is now the world’s largest ship – and is almost 50 percent bigger than the Queen Mary 2, the last ship to visit Australia’s shores.

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Ten things to do in Victoria for $10 and under

If the best things in life are free, then the second-best things must cost just under ten bucks. To that end, budget travel hound Sarah Tierney has come up with some great ideas for saving money on travel in these lean times.

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It has a unique flavour [bush tucker]

Sarah Tierney takes a fresh look at Australia’s clever culinary wilderness, including devouring the coat of arms, some ingenious Indigenous bush remedies, and even a recipe for good old fashioned Beer Damper.