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Australia's best dog-friendly beaches
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Australia
Taking the dog to the beach on a hot summer's day is a great way to relax. Not all beaches are dog friendly, but we've found a few gems...
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The top 10 beach houses in Victoria
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Victoria
Beach houses
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From a charming limestone cottage to one of the country's most iconic homes — Victoria's finest beach houses to suit all tastes and budgets.
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The top 10 beach houses in Queensland
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Queensland
Beach houses
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Queensland's best beachside retreats that offer sun, sea, sand and style on your doorstep.
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The top 10 beach houses in NSW
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New South Wales
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Byron Bay
Bondi Beach
Coffs Harbour
Angourie Point
Boomerang Beach
Palm Beach
Bundeena
Australia
Want to throw a grown-up beach party this summer? Kim Wildman scours the state for NSWs' best beachside holiday homes.
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Beach holidays in ... Germany?
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Germany
Beach holidays in Germany sound like an anomaly, but the marzipan-white resort of Heiligendamm lies along an unexpectedly beautiful Baltic coastline nicknamed...
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Best tropical paradises
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Endless summers, coconut trees and ...stop daydreaming! These are the top tropical paradises, as nominated by Lonely Planet. But destinations like Atiu,...
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Australia's underrated islands
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Montague Island
Houtman Abrolhos
Christmas Island
French Island
King Bay
Lady Elliott Island
Lady Musgrave Island
Tiwi islands
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Resorts, national parks and cultural centres you may not have heard of.
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Surfing in Yemen
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Yemen
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Monster waves, zero crowds and some interesting locals — Yemen is surf's new frontier. Catch it before it breaks.
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Australia's best beach houses
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kids weekends
The beach shack is firmly rooted in every Aussie's consciousness. Here are a few of Australia's best beach houses.
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Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
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California
Car Branch
United States
West Virginia
Leave your stilettos at home if you're planning a visit to lovely Carmel-by-the-Sea in California. No high heels is one of the town's more unusual by-laws,...
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Discover the thousand islands of Croatia
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Croatia
For a small country, Croatia has a lot of neighbours. In the north, Hungary and Slovenia, to the east, Bosnia and Serbia, and south, Montenegro. And to the...
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Chumbe Island: castaway conservation
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swimming
Zanzibar
United Republic of Tanzania
Chumbe Island looks like Sydney Opera House on Robinson Crusoe's island.
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Sick of sunbathing? Try something new at the beach
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Beaches
"What is there to do in Australia?" can be distilled into an even simpler question: "what is there to do at the beach?" Whether you like swimming or surfing,...
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Destination Bondi
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Beaches
You can't say you've done Sydney until you've visited world-famous Bondi Beach. So here's the do-it-like-a-local guide to maximising your sojourn.
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Head for the hills: The Sunshine Coast Hinterland
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Beaches
The abundant charms of sophisticated Noosa and the succession of pearly-white beaches which line the Sunshine Coast...
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Bells Beach: Aussie classic
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Victoria
Australia
The Beach Boys sang about Aruba, Montego and Key Largo. If they had visited the southern parts of Victoria, where the shore meets the sea, it’s certain at...
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Beyond the Banana: Coffs Coast NSW
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Who could visit Coffs Harbour without calling in at the iconic Big Banana, with its ski run, toboggan slope and railway through a banana plantation?
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Cronulla: a beach icon that comes out of the blue
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Haggerstone Island
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Queensland
Haggerstone Island
Australia
As you near the end of the two hour, 600km small plane flight that brings you from Cairns to Haggerstone Island, it is hard to believe that you could possibly...
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Ninety Mile Beach
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Victoria
Ninety Mile Beach
Australia
There is a perception that the beaches down south are not as beautiful as their Southern cousins. Victoria, some scoff, is the Garden State, not the State of...
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All aboard the Queen Mary 2
The largest ship to ever visit Australia, Queen Mary 2 has begun her maiden...
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Forget about your troubles and get back to the way nature intended at these great holiday retreats.
Top nudist beaches
Naturist holidays are not a new phenomenon, but they are taking the travel world by storm as more and more nudists take their clothes-free lifestyle to the road, leaving luggage behind to catch rays on their ... behinds.
Aussie beach bliss at an adults-only resort
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With our 50 must-see places of the world - we'll start with our top 10 most popular destinations as voted by you.
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Korea's sex theme park
Asian culture may seem sexually conservative but bubbling close beneath the surface is a kinky side. And this is no more true than when you take a trip to South Korea's adults-only erotic theme park, Loveland.
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