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Iranian odyssey
Former Timaru Herald reporter and regular travel contributor Jill Worrall has written a book about Iran that looks at the country in a different way to virtually any other previous work, as an account of a road trip through a huge, historic land. Grant Shimmin talked to her about the book and the thinking that went into it.
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Array of Hope: Australia and South Africa Vie for Massive Radio Telescope Project
MURCHISON SHIRE, Western Australia–The pilot of the eight-passenger Cessna turboprop lines up the nose of his plane with a red-dirt landing strip ahead, a band of cleared Earth not all that different from the flat, sparsely vegetated terrain below. [More]
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Gap-year length ‘just five weeks’
The gap year is becoming more of a snap year, with trips lasting only five weeks on average, according to a poll.
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