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JUST ADD WATER<br />
Our annual Aussie<br />
cossie exposé<br />
The country music<br />
star sounds off<br />
on life, love<br />
and success<br />
TREASURE ISLAND<br />
Take the tykes to Tassie for<br />
pirates, penguins and zip-lining<br />
INTO THE WILD<br />
Mountains of fun on<br />
New Zealand’s North Island<br />
NOVEMBER <strong>2009</strong><br />
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An Australian Tradition
Photo: Russi<br />
CLOCKWISE: Surf’s up for Jamie Mitchell;<br />
be mesmerised by a TaikOz gig;<br />
sample Blue Sky Brewing<br />
contents.<br />
features<br />
20 star struck <br />
As he returns to Australia for a national tour country singer<br />
Keith Urban shares the joys of his new life with us<br />
28 retail therapy <br />
Make a splash this summer with these fabulous bikinis<br />
34 people<br />
We head to Hawaii where world champion paddleboarder<br />
Jamie Mitchell prepares to meet his maker<br />
36 adrenaline <br />
For an adventure to remember join us as we explore the wilds<br />
of New Zealand’s North Island<br />
42 thirst quencher <br />
Meet the microbreweries winning awards and tastebuds<br />
48 fl y/drive <br />
Come campervanning as we discover magical Margaret River<br />
54 hub <br />
Let the kids have the time of their life with our fun<br />
family escapade in Tasmania<br />
61 in focus <br />
Make it a honeymoon to remember at these<br />
gorgeous getaways<br />
34<br />
Photo: Keith Saunders<br />
regulars<br />
2 editor’s welcome note<br />
4 events<br />
7 10 minutes with… Finding May<br />
8 gadgets & gear<br />
10 good taste<br />
13 on the go<br />
14 the word<br />
16 information desk<br />
19 fi t to go<br />
68 brain teasers<br />
in the air with jetstar<br />
77 jetstar news<br />
78 starkids<br />
81 <br />
<br />
88 where we fl y<br />
90 your wellbeing onboard<br />
92 international adventures<br />
4<br />
Cover Photo:<br />
COURTESY OF CAPITOL NASHVILLE<br />
98 introducing our<br />
domestic airports<br />
103 domestic destinations<br />
focus<br />
105 gift ideas<br />
106 have a bite<br />
110 entertainment<br />
42<br />
CONTENTS<br />
NOVEMBER <strong>2009</strong><br />
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EDITOR’S WELCOME NOTE<br />
Summer Dazzlers<br />
Travelling<br />
abroad and returning home always brings with it a sense of<br />
culture shock. And so was the case when I moved back to<br />
Australia after 17 years in Asia. I am relishing the open blue skies, dazzling displays of<br />
native wildfl owers, relaxed pace and natural humour of Aussies.<br />
It will no doubt be a sentiment our cover star Keith Urban experiences when he tours<br />
Australia in December (see page 20). Another Australian on tour and making waves<br />
abroad is Jamie Mitchell — read about the eight-time world paddleboarding champ’s<br />
latest honour on page 34.<br />
As the temperature notches up, you’ll love our spreads on microbreweries, bikinis and<br />
bush bashing in New Zealand. We show you top spots for honeymooning and discover<br />
the beauty of Western Australia’s Margaret River region. And kids, if you don’t have fun in<br />
Tasmania with our great holiday ideas, then you might as well stay in the naughty corner!<br />
Summer, here we come.<br />
Rachel Farnay Jacques<br />
Jetstar Magazine Editor<br />
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THE BIG WEEKEND<br />
Festival director Barbara Moss was a performer<br />
at the fi rst Queenscliff Music Festival. Now,<br />
she’s marshalling over 500 volunteers to<br />
ensure the entertainment — three days of<br />
performances from some of the best musicians<br />
Australia and the world has to off er — makes<br />
the trip from Melbourne well worth your while.<br />
What we can expect from this year’s<br />
Queenscliff Music Festival?<br />
Th e festival is a musical feast that will resonate<br />
with you for a very long time and a hoot to go<br />
to with friends and family.<br />
Which performances are personal coups?<br />
Th ere are a couple of “long time in the making”<br />
acts this year, which is always rewarding. In<br />
both cases, it’s been a matter of partnering<br />
with other organisations to pull it off . So that’s<br />
what the Pigram Bros, Indigenous sensations<br />
from Broome, have in common with the MSO<br />
Chamber Players. I know it’s a bit left of fi eld<br />
featuring Mozart at a contemporary music<br />
festival, but that’s the kind of classy audience<br />
we have. I’m also particularly pleased to be<br />
hosting Th e Original Wailers — Junior Marvin,<br />
along with two other original members of<br />
Th e Wailers, will be performing all those great<br />
songs. As I deal with issues of staging a festival,<br />
I fi nd myself singing “every little thing’s gonna<br />
be all right”.<br />
What in particular are you looking forward<br />
to catching?<br />
Festival Fever. It’s the fabulous mix of music<br />
that defi nes our festival, not particular acts.<br />
Having said that, I do love a great diva, so I’m<br />
stoked to have Marcia Hines, Katy Steele, Ella<br />
Th ompson and Bertie Blackman all on the one<br />
line-up. You go, girlfriends!<br />
What do you recommend visitors to the<br />
Festival do in Queenscliff ?<br />
Indulge yourself — stay somewhere fabulous.<br />
In Queenscliff , both grandeur and simplicity<br />
are charming. Take in the surrounds: make the<br />
time to take a trip on the water. A charter boat<br />
or ferry trip provides gorgeous views of the<br />
infamous Rip. Be decadent: have a massage,<br />
imbibe our wines and sample our eateries.<br />
Delve into Queenscliff ’s history. Th e town is a<br />
sensory delight.<br />
4 NOVEMBER <strong>2009</strong><br />
Th e Queenscliff Music<br />
Festival is on 27–29<br />
November, tel: 1300<br />
438 849.<br />
Photo: OxFam Australia<br />
Move to the<br />
Beat.<br />
TaikOz<br />
Rat Race<br />
Urban Adventure<br />
20–21 NOV BRISBANE<br />
27 NOV SYDNEY<br />
TaikOz, Karak and Topology<br />
Wrap your ears around the music<br />
collaboration between drumming group<br />
TaikOz, percussion duo Karak and ensemble<br />
Topology — Sound on Sound. Sydney tickets<br />
from Ticketek on 132 849; Brisbane tickets<br />
from Powertix on +61 (7) 3358 8600.<br />
7–8 NOV PERTH<br />
28–29 NOV MELBOURNE<br />
Rat Race Urban Adventure<br />
Get two friends together and register for this<br />
charity urban race for Oxfam Australia, which<br />
will have your trio running, cycling, kayaking,<br />
climbing and abseiling across a course<br />
revealed hours before the start. To register,<br />
visit www.oxfam.org.au<br />
This month’s filled with music<br />
festivals and sporting activity<br />
WORDS ANNE LOH<br />
Toast Martinborough<br />
15 NOV WELLINGTON<br />
Toast Martinborough Wine,<br />
Food and Music Festival<br />
Have a great day out in the vineyards of<br />
Martinborough. Ata Rangi and Escarpment<br />
are among the top vineyards opening up to<br />
visitors with gourmet cuisine and a line-up<br />
of New Zealand’s best live entertainment to<br />
entice. Call Ticketek on 0800 842 538.<br />
28 NOV–24 DEC SYDNEY<br />
Christmas celebrations<br />
Darling Harbour will launch their free Family<br />
Christmas Concert at Darling Harbour’s<br />
Convention Centre Forecourt. Sydney’s tallest<br />
Christmas tree at 21m will be lit up and there’ll<br />
be fi reworks over Cockle Bay. Enjoy acapella<br />
groups singing carols by the tree from<br />
Thursday to Sunday throughout December.
Phuket King’s<br />
Cup Regatta<br />
28 NOV–5 DEC PHUKET<br />
Phuket King’s Cup Regatta<br />
If you love regattas and after-race parties,<br />
this annual event off Kata Beach is not<br />
to be missed. Look out for increased<br />
competitiveness in the Racing Class and get<br />
an eyeful of the Australian-designed,<br />
Phuket-built Firefl y 850s as they show what<br />
they’re capable of.<br />
22–29 NOV JAKARTA<br />
Jak Jazz International Festival<br />
The 21st edition of this cool and intimate<br />
festival brings the best of Indonesian and<br />
international jazz musicians to Indonesia’s<br />
capital playing in a range of indoor and<br />
outdoor venues. This year’s line-up is still<br />
being confi rmed but if last year is any<br />
indication, it’ll be huge. Tel: +62 (21) 571 2747.<br />
Photo: Keith Saunders<br />
Photo: Alberto Cassio<br />
Photo: Grant Treeby Images<br />
The Kookaburras national<br />
men’s hockey team<br />
Deadmau5 (Stereosonic)<br />
28 NOV–6 DEC SYDNEY, PERTH,<br />
ADELAIDE, MELBOURNE, BRISBANE<br />
Stereosonic<br />
Celebrate summertime with Australia’s<br />
fastest growing festival. Stereosonic returns<br />
with international acts such as Canadian<br />
Deadmau5, Italian modern dance-punk The<br />
Bloody Beetroots and German maestros Alter<br />
Ego. Call Moshtix on 1300 438 849.<br />
28 NOV–6 DEC MELBOURNE<br />
<strong>2009</strong> Men’s Champions Trophy<br />
Can new coach Ric Charlesworth lead the<br />
Kookaburras to successfully defend the title<br />
they won in Rotterdam, Netherlands last<br />
year? That’ll be the question on everyone’s<br />
minds as the men’s hockey team comes up<br />
against 2007 champ Germany. State Netball<br />
Hockey Centre, call Ticketmaster 136 100.<br />
BOOK NOW!<br />
4–6 Dec<br />
Sydney Telstra 500<br />
Th e fi rst ever V8 Supercar street race takes<br />
place at the Sydney Olympic Park precinct<br />
with fast cars, live music by the Presets<br />
and Sneaky Sound System, a kid’s carnival,<br />
sideshow alley and international food village.<br />
4–19 Dec<br />
Damien Leith<br />
Find out where Australian Idol Damien Leith<br />
is at on his music journey as he tours New<br />
South Wales (Nowra, Dapto and Sydney) and<br />
Melbourne venues on the back of his third<br />
studio album Remember June.<br />
10–13 Dec<br />
Australian PGA Championship<br />
Aussie golf champ Geoff Ogilvy returns<br />
to defend his PGA Championship title as<br />
Australia’s oldest golf tournament returns to<br />
the Robert Trent Jones course at Queensland’s<br />
Hyatt Regency Coolum.<br />
12 Dec<br />
ZoukOut Singapore<br />
Book your spot on the sand of Sentosa island’s<br />
Siloso Beach for the ninth ZoukOut Music<br />
Festival, Asia’s largest outdoor dance event of<br />
its kind with headlining acts such as Armin<br />
van Buuren, Simon Dunmore, Th e Martinez<br />
Brothers and Miss Kittin & Th e Hacker.<br />
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Finding<br />
May.<br />
Where did you and singer/songwriter<br />
Erin McCrory meet?<br />
We were both on a bus that conked out in the<br />
middle of nowhere. It was May 2006, which is<br />
what inspired our name — Finding May. Erin<br />
was humming and I asked her what she was<br />
singing. She said it was an original song, and<br />
I started making funny noises and beatboxing<br />
with her. We had a laugh and soon<br />
after we wrote a song called “Rain, Hail or<br />
Shine”‚ which ended up on the Arnott’s<br />
biscuit commercials.<br />
What infl uences your genre of<br />
“weekend music”?<br />
There’s this image of musicians recording<br />
at 3am with beer and pizza, but we write<br />
and record in the morning. I have a grand<br />
piano that opens out onto the garden<br />
so we meet up every Saturday morning<br />
and write. There’s this sense of a whole<br />
weekend ahead and we try to capture<br />
that feeling of excitement and<br />
possibility in our song writing<br />
and production.<br />
Blair, your music’s been used in over a<br />
dozen advertising jingles. Which comes<br />
fi rst: the song or the client?<br />
I serve the music fi rst, and the client through<br />
that. If you have a song that connects with<br />
people, you can’t go wrong. While the music<br />
needs to support the message of the ad, I aim<br />
to create something that can stand on its own<br />
musical feet.<br />
You wrote the music for the new Jetstar ad<br />
campaign. How did that come about?<br />
They’d heard a song we wrote called “Join In”<br />
and liked the style. We wanted the<br />
song to appeal to all ages and span multiple<br />
genres so we referenced all kinds of sounds<br />
from Jetstar destinations, with over 40<br />
different instruments, using different<br />
technology. There’s also a small choir plus<br />
some amazing musicians.<br />
With their music making its presence felt<br />
on Jetstar’s new ad campaign, we ask<br />
composer Blair Joscelyne of the songwriting<br />
duo Finding May about their sound<br />
INTERVIEW RACHEL FARNAY JACQUES<br />
What advice do you have for<br />
budding songwriters?<br />
Luck is a combination of talent,<br />
perseverance and opportunity.<br />
Ultimately, the most important thing is to<br />
make music that is honest with something<br />
unique to say. Then just keep bugging them<br />
until they give you a chance!<br />
Have you fl own with Jetstar recently?<br />
Yes, to Osaka where I bought a racecar.<br />
It’s sitting at the docks now waiting to get<br />
shipped back to Australia. Erin and I will be<br />
heading to Japan again in early 2010 to do<br />
some live shows.<br />
Is there a particular place in Melbourne<br />
you fi nd inspirational?<br />
I always feel at home on Brunswick Street.<br />
There are so many awesome bookshops,<br />
clothes and cafés. We also can’t go past The<br />
Espy in St Kilda — it’s an Australian icon for<br />
live music.<br />
Where can readers hear your music?<br />
We’re doing shows in Sydney and Melbourne<br />
over the coming months —the details are on<br />
our website. Our music can be heard on all<br />
Jetstar TV commercials and on the plane.<br />
Photo: waxworx.com.au<br />
NOVEMBER <strong>2009</strong> 7<br />
10 MINUTES WITH...
Wrap<br />
These Up.<br />
These gadgets are gifts that’ll continue<br />
giving throughout the coming year<br />
WORDS ANNE LOH<br />
For the net-surfer<br />
For those who love an all-round multimedia experience, there’s the<br />
Samsung N120 mini-notebook (AU$899, call 1300 362 603 for<br />
stockists) with two speakers and a sub-woofer for high-quality sound;<br />
a 1.3-megapixel digital motion camera for video conferences; and<br />
the energy-effi cient SuperBright LED technology for a 33% brighter<br />
screen. Slip on a Tropical Howie neoprene skin (AU$69.95, stockists<br />
on www.tropicalhowie.com) for instant style cred, then drive this baby<br />
into overdrive with your very<br />
own Porsche 911 Motormouse, a<br />
wireless mouse with the works,<br />
including the smallest 2.4G<br />
wireless receiver in the world<br />
and three different sensitivity<br />
settings. Available in black, silver<br />
and metallic red, with chrome<br />
alloy wheels and real rubber tyres<br />
(AU$69.95, www.exectoys.com.au).<br />
8 NOVEMBER <strong>2009</strong><br />
For the man who would be Bond<br />
Secret agent ambitions? The new world-fi rst 3G Touch Watch Phone<br />
(AU$2,299, call 1300 542 273 for stockists) by LG is a must. Featuring<br />
a full touch screen interface, video calling, 7.2 Mbps 3G HSDPA<br />
compatibility, voice recognition and Text to Speech, it’s being released<br />
in December. Couple this with the ck Calvin Klein USB Memory Frame<br />
(AU$299, in black and dark havana), which are sunglasses with a USB<br />
port located in the right temple. How’s that for stealth?<br />
For the gourmet<br />
Foodies will appreciate Cuisinart’s<br />
Cordless Wine Bottle Opener<br />
(AU$99.95), the Stainless Steel<br />
Ice Cream Maker (AU$99.95) and<br />
Auto Popcorn Maker (AU$129).<br />
The Bottle Opener can remove<br />
80 corks on a full charge<br />
while the Ice Cream<br />
Maker can hold<br />
two litres of frozen<br />
dessert. The Auto<br />
Popcorn Maker can<br />
pop up to 10 cups<br />
of fresh popcorn in<br />
under fi ve minutes.<br />
Available from<br />
kitchenware stores.<br />
For the shutterbug<br />
Olympus has proved<br />
that it’s possible to have a<br />
small, lightweight camera with<br />
interchangeable lens with the E-450<br />
(AU$999) with art fi lters for maximum play.<br />
The Shadow Adjustment control allows a<br />
balance between faces and background.<br />
For video recording, the latest entrant is<br />
Kodak with the Zx1 Pocket Video Recorder<br />
(AU$249) which looks just like a mobile<br />
phone. Perfect for action sequences and<br />
resistant to rain, snow, sand and dirt.<br />
For the gamer<br />
Challenge your brainpower with<br />
Professor Layton and Pandora’s<br />
Box (RP AU$69.95, selected<br />
games stores) on Nintendo<br />
DS and DSi which has 150<br />
brainteasers, riddles and logic<br />
puzzles. And for PlayStation<br />
gamers on the move, the latest<br />
PSPgo (AU$449.95) is 43%<br />
lighter and allows connectivity<br />
via Bluetooth and WiFi.
For the road warrior<br />
Phone, music and GPS functions come<br />
in a sleek package with the new Pioneer<br />
in-dash multimedia solution, allowing for<br />
hassle-free and hands-free navigation,<br />
communication and entertainment.<br />
The AVIC-F310BT (AU$1,199, stockists<br />
on www.pioneer.com.au) has a colour<br />
detachable touch screen display with 2D<br />
or 3D mapping and voice guidance, and even gives you reports on fuel<br />
consumption and CO 2 emissions. Explore your destination on foot<br />
with the Nokia 6710 Navigator (AU$629, call +61 (2) 9429 9000 for<br />
stockists) with maps of over 200 countries, local weather information,<br />
Lonely Planet city guides as well as entertainment listings.<br />
For the socially-conscious<br />
For a good cause, get a copy of Sound Relief, a four-DVD set<br />
of footage from the Sydney-Melbourne Black Saturday benefi t<br />
concerts. Profi ts on sales, at Kmart and other stores for AU$35, go<br />
to the Red Cross. For good sound output, there’s the Linkman 5.1<br />
Channel Sound Bar with iPod dock and DVD player from WOW Sight<br />
and Sound stores (AU$599) or the palm-sized Moshi BassBurger<br />
boombox (AU$49.95, call +61 (3) 9540 4111 for stockists).<br />
For the high-fl yer<br />
The Flight Experience is a<br />
replica Boeing 737 fl ight<br />
simulator which offers a<br />
hands-on feel of taking<br />
this big bird into the blue<br />
skies. With franchises<br />
in Sydney, Sydney, Melbourne,<br />
the Gold Coast, Perth,<br />
Singapore and and New<br />
Zealand, Zealand, you’re never<br />
far from the next lift-off.<br />
Gift vouchers available.<br />
From AU$175 for a<br />
30-minute fl ight, call<br />
1800 737 800.<br />
FINGERTIPS<br />
The introduction of SMS boarding pass technology across the Australian<br />
and New Zealand domestic networks prior to end-<strong>2009</strong> will be another<br />
global fi rst. To fi nd out more, go to Jetstar.com.<br />
LIVE AND LOUD<br />
David McLean,<br />
regional director<br />
for entertainment<br />
at Microsoft, has<br />
just launched the<br />
new Xbox on the<br />
Australian market.<br />
We ask him what we<br />
can look forward to.<br />
How are the new Xbox LIVE features going<br />
to blow our socks off ?<br />
e Xbox 360 is now the entertainment hub<br />
of the home. With a click of a button you can<br />
access high-quality movies, music, games,<br />
Twitter, Facebook and more.<br />
How much was customer-driven?<br />
Everything we do is customer driven. We<br />
follow people’s entertainment habits and<br />
develop products and services that evolve with<br />
their demands.<br />
People enjoy listening to music, connecting<br />
with friends and family, playing games,<br />
sharing photos, watching a movie. Imagine a<br />
place that brings it all together — that’s what<br />
Xbox is all about.<br />
Facebook and Twitter are both available on<br />
Xbox, but how is it more convenient?<br />
You don’t need a computer to stay connected.<br />
Photos on Facebook look great and are easy to<br />
show off on your big TV screen; you can Tweet<br />
during a game; and stay connected to friends<br />
and family — all from your lounge room.<br />
e Xbox is a perfect Christmas gift for…?<br />
… the whole family. It’s a gift that keeps on<br />
giving long after Christmas day.<br />
What are your<br />
favourite games<br />
on Xbox?<br />
I love music, so<br />
defi nitely our<br />
karaoke game<br />
Lips. ere’s<br />
nothing like<br />
singing songs<br />
badly with my<br />
two young<br />
kids. I’m looking forward to<br />
HD movies this year, and my favourite game<br />
to play on my own is Halo 3:ODST.<br />
What can we look forward to in 2010?<br />
Soon you will be able to play games and interact<br />
with no controllers at all — think Minority<br />
Report! It’s coming to your Xbox 360.<br />
e Xbox 360 Elite System is AU$449 with the<br />
Xbox Live Gold Subscription at AU$79.99.<br />
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Nutritionists have long extolled the virtues<br />
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Get trim and terrifi c for<br />
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WORDS ROBERTA MUIR<br />
Room to Move<br />
Sticking to a diet when you’re travelling can<br />
be tough. Crowne Plaza Hotels have come to<br />
the rescue with their Body and Soul in-room<br />
dining menu, with low-fat, gluten-free,<br />
high-omega 3, low-salt, low-GI, high-fi bre and<br />
more healthy options.<br />
Fast Food<br />
Carrying Tony Ferguson “munch bars” in<br />
apricot or berry fl avours and tetrapak<br />
“shake away” chocolate or<br />
espresso drinks in your<br />
handbag can help prevent<br />
high-calorie snack<br />
attacks. Available<br />
at Tony Ferguson<br />
Weightloss and Wellness<br />
Centres and Terry White<br />
Chemists. RRP AU$3.99.
MORE FRUITS,<br />
VEGETABLES AND WATER<br />
Th is month we get tips for eating smart from Susie Burrell,<br />
consultant to the Parramatta Eels and dietitian at Th e Children’s<br />
Hospital Westmead. Susie says:<br />
• Order extra vegetables or salad when eating<br />
out — studies show that people who eat a<br />
salad before their meal eat up to 20% fewer<br />
calories later.<br />
• Indulgent treats with minimal calories<br />
include low fat, portion-controlled ice<br />
creams, sorbets, fruit salads, frappés, frozen<br />
fruits and skim milk iced drinks.<br />
• If you’ve overindulged, eat lightly<br />
the following day with a mix of fruits<br />
and salads.<br />
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for an afternoon gap-fi ller, there’s a decadent<br />
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buster contains snap-frozen blueberries and<br />
raspberries with smooth white chocolate for<br />
evening snack attacks!<br />
Eskimos Escape<br />
Igloo Zoo’s 99.5% fat-free frozen yoghurt<br />
comes in plain, pomegranate and green tea<br />
fl avours for topping with your choice of 30<br />
• Remember that fruits and vegetables<br />
containing a high level of water and<br />
potassium (including watermelon, celery,<br />
cucumber and berries) help rid the body of<br />
extra fl uid.<br />
• Always have a healthy snack with you (such<br />
as nut or protein bars or piece of fruit) so<br />
that you can resist high-fat foods when<br />
you’re out and about.<br />
• Hydrate well — aim for at least two to three<br />
bottles of water each day.<br />
Cold comfort<br />
at Igloo Zoo<br />
tasty organic antioxidant goodies including<br />
goji berries, white chocolate and plum<br />
compôte. You’ll fi nd their “culture bars” in<br />
Sydney, Victoria and the Gold Coast.<br />
Real and Raw<br />
Cosmetics entrepreneur Jemma Gawned’s<br />
new edible range of Naked Treaties<br />
Rawganics includes Sweet Treaties<br />
100% raw, organic desserts such as<br />
coconut-dusted goji balls; Naked Cakies<br />
such as luscious lemon cheesecake with<br />
strawberry sorbet dressing; and Naked<br />
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NOVEMBER <strong>2009</strong> 11
Flights of<br />
Fancy.<br />
SINGAPORE<br />
Changi International Airport was rated the<br />
world’s third best airport in the recent Skytrax<br />
awards, largely because of its impressive leisure<br />
amenities including movies and game consoles.<br />
One of the newest attractions located at<br />
terminals 1 and 3 is Time Travel, a lifestyleconcept<br />
bookshop designed to meet the<br />
specifi c needs of travellers. In addition to<br />
major international newspapers and the<br />
latest books, it offers a wide variety of travel<br />
gadgets and accessories, and a Berlitz<br />
Listening Station where you can pick up 200<br />
useful phrases in various languages such as<br />
Mandarin, Thai, Japanese and Vietnamese<br />
before fl ying out.<br />
BANGKOK<br />
There are many great reasons to visit<br />
Bangkok, but a new one to add to the list<br />
is the opportunity to shop ’til you drop at<br />
Suvarnabhumi Airport.<br />
Think of something you need and you can<br />
probably buy it here, but if you have something<br />
really special in mind, or just fancy a jawdropping<br />
window-shopping experience, head<br />
for the glamorous boutiques located on Level<br />
4 (departures), Concourse D. From Bally and<br />
Burberry, to Cartier and Hugo Boss, most of<br />
the best-known international designer brands<br />
are represented here. After all that shopping,<br />
indulge in a Thai massage to end refreshed.<br />
CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Pick up some new foreign<br />
phrases at Time Travel; print your own guidebook<br />
at Lonely Planet’s concept store; relax with<br />
complimentary food at Jetstar’s Gold Coast lounge<br />
Check out these airport facilities<br />
and services for a super getaway<br />
WORDS JOANNA HALL<br />
SYDNEY<br />
If you fi nd yourself with spare time at<br />
Sydney’s Kingsford Smith Airport, there are<br />
plenty of options for amusing yourself.<br />
One is stopping by the new Lonely Planet<br />
concept store in the International Terminal,<br />
where you can browse through over 500 travel<br />
books, get expert tips and recommendations<br />
from its authors using innovative i-touch<br />
screens, and even print your own custommade<br />
guidebook.<br />
Or if you’re in the Domestic Terminal and<br />
feel the need for a little pampering, take some<br />
time out at Body Inc, a beauty salon and spa<br />
where you can get a manicure, a massage or<br />
even a new hairdo.<br />
GOLD COAST<br />
Whether you’re waiting for a fl ight or have<br />
time to kill between connections, the new<br />
must-visit hot spot here is the Jetstar Lounge.<br />
Facilities on offer in this quiet oasis include<br />
comfy chairs, complimentary food and drinks,<br />
wireless internet access, plasma TV screens<br />
showing news, music videos and movies, and<br />
two dedicated areas to amuse the kids with<br />
movies and games.<br />
Entry is free for children aged six and below<br />
when accompanied by an adult, who can<br />
get in for AU$15 at the door or pre-purchase<br />
access for AU$9.99 from Jetstar.com. If you’ve<br />
upgraded yourself to travel StarClass, it’s free.<br />
TRAVEL BOOKINGS<br />
ON THE FLY WITH JETSTAR<br />
Jetstar has launched the next phase of its<br />
website technology, making it easier than ever<br />
before to make travel plans — even if you’re<br />
already on the move. In addition to browsing<br />
the Jetstar.com website, travellers using an<br />
internet-enabled mobile phone can now buy<br />
a ticket, check in for a fl ight, and even make<br />
changes to an existing booking. Th is amazing<br />
new technology is available in both English and<br />
Japanese, and is in operation system-wide so<br />
if you’re in Singapore, but need to book a fl ight<br />
from Sydney to Melbourne for the following<br />
week, now all you need to do it is your mobile!<br />
NOVEMBER <strong>2009</strong> 13<br />
ON THE GO
THE WORD<br />
OSAKA<br />
Best winter activity: Christmas<br />
in Osaka means shopping, and<br />
the best place to do this is in the<br />
Kita District, around Osaka’s JR<br />
Osaka and Hankyu Umeda stations.<br />
Here, several department stores are<br />
within easy walking distance, including<br />
Daimaru, Hankyu and Hanshin.<br />
Best free attraction: Head to Osaka’s Minami District and plunge<br />
into the narrow alleys south of the Dotombori Canal to fi nd the scenic<br />
Hozen-ji Temple and the moss-covered statue of Fudo-myo on display<br />
there. Toss some water on the statue to pray for good fortune.<br />
Best for the kids: Osaka Aquarium (Kaiyukan in Japanese) is built<br />
around the mother of all fi sh tanks. You can check out two enormous<br />
whale sharks, a tiger shark, leopard sharks and even a pair<br />
of manta rays.<br />
Best cheap eats: Osaka’s great value is most apparent in rowdy<br />
Dotombori, in the Minami District. You’ll fi nd Japan’s best selection of<br />
inexpensive restaurants packed into this bustling street. Most of the<br />
larger places have English menus.<br />
Friendliest local bar: If you want to meet the locals (both expats and<br />
Japanese), head to Murphy’s, a friendly Irish pub in the Minami District.<br />
1-6-31 Higashi-Shinsaibashi, tel: +81 (6) 6282 0677, open 5pm–1am<br />
Sun–Thu, to 4am Fri & Sat; closest station: Nagahoribashi station on<br />
the Sakaisuji subway line.<br />
Best ski outing: For some of the best lift-served powder on the planet,<br />
head to Sapporo and jump on a bus to Niseko. The trip takes about half<br />
a day from Osaka.<br />
Best to explore: Osaka’s Open-Air Museum of Old Japanese<br />
Farmhouses is one of the city’s best-kept secrets. 1-2 Hattori Ryokuchi,<br />
Toyonaka-shi, tel: +81 (6) 6862 3137; admission ¥500 (AU$6.50); open<br />
9.30am–5pm, closed Mon; closest station: Ryokuchi-koen station on<br />
the Midosuji subway line, West exit.<br />
14 NOVEMBER <strong>2009</strong><br />
A Tale of<br />
Two Cities.<br />
With the release of Lonely Planet’s<br />
all-new Japan guidebook, we check out<br />
the winter fun in Osaka and Tokyo<br />
WORDS CHRIS ROWTHORN AND WENDY YANAGIHARA<br />
TOKYO<br />
Best winter activity: Oedo Onsen<br />
Monogatari. There’s no better way to<br />
take the edge off the winter chill than to<br />
get naked… at this Edo-themed onsen<br />
(hot spring). Soak in steamy mineral<br />
pools, slurp noodles and beer, shop for<br />
souvenirs and enjoy the onsen’s<br />
old-Japan ambience. 2-57 Aomi, Koto-ku,<br />
tel: +81 (3) 5500 1126.<br />
Best free attraction: Weekend people-watching in Ginza and Harajuku.<br />
Start in Ginza, where Chuo-dori is closed to vehicle traffi c on weekends<br />
and Tokyoites of all stripes are out for a stroll; Christmas-time bling<br />
makes the boulevard especially festive. Afterwards, train to Meiji-jingubashi,<br />
where the famous Goth Lolita and Cosplay kids hang out in their<br />
crazy costumed fi nery.<br />
Best for the kids: Ghibli Museum. Climb around on the plush cat bus,<br />
watch an animated short in the little theatre and goggle at original<br />
Hayao Miyazaki drawings tacked on the walls of this charming museum.<br />
1-1-83 Shimo-Renjaku, Mitaka-shi; admission adults ¥1,000 (AU$13),<br />
children free (under 4) to ¥700 (AU$9); open 10.00am–6pm, closed<br />
Tues; closest station: Mitaka station on the JR Chuo Line, South exit.<br />
Best cheap eat: Warm up on wintry days with a huge bowl of<br />
soul-fortifying ramen. Ippudo in Ebisu serves a mean tonkotsu (pork<br />
bone broth) ramen. 1-3-13 Hiroo, Shibuya-ku, tel: +81 (3) 5420 2225.<br />
Friendliest local bar: CoZmo’s Café’s crowd is a happy mix of locals<br />
and foreigners, making this a good place to get your bearings in Tokyo.<br />
Along with good cocktails, you can also grab a bite and sometimes<br />
catch live music in this hip corner of Shibuya. 1-6-3 Shibuya,<br />
Shibuya-ku, tel: +81 (3) 3407 5166; open from 6pm weekdays, 7pm<br />
Sat and 3pm Sun, closed Mon.<br />
Best ski outing: Minakami, Gunma Prefecture. About 90 minutes<br />
from Tokyo via shinkansen (bullet train) and shuttle bus, the Minakami<br />
area is much less crowded than other popular resort towns near<br />
Tokyo. Beautiful powder snow and the many lovely onsen draw skiers<br />
and boarders.<br />
Best to explore: Small-scale neighbourhoods like Shimo-Kitazawa<br />
harbour pockets of Tokyo’s indie culture. With its tiny bars and cafés,<br />
secondhand shops and artsy vibe, this unpretentious maze of narrow<br />
alleys is a joy to explore on gloomy days. Take the Odakyu line from<br />
Shinjuku station.<br />
Lonely Planet Japan, 11th ed., AU$46.99, ISBN 9781741790429<br />
Jetstar fl ies to Osaka from the Gold Coast and to Tokyo from the Gold Coast and Cairns
INFORMATION DESK<br />
Rooms With<br />
a View.<br />
Capella Singapore<br />
On an idyllic island off another island<br />
is Capella hotel. Located on Sentosa,<br />
Singapore’s island playground, this new<br />
hotel deceptively blends colonial heritage<br />
with an elegant contemporary extension by<br />
architect Sir Norman Foster. The stunning<br />
contemporary art collection, curated by<br />
American Elizabeth Weiner, is revealed subtly<br />
throughout the hotel’s expansive grounds.<br />
Over 500 pieces by Western and Asian artists<br />
explore the concepts of colour, 3-D forms,<br />
deconstructivism and minimalism. Weiner<br />
says: “Capella’s collection is conceptual and<br />
global in its goal. Just as the concept of the old<br />
and new buildings are visually challenging at<br />
fi rst, so is the collection.” Guides are available<br />
through the concierge desk and, as Weiner<br />
says, “It’s not the ‘pretty picture’ one expects<br />
to see in a hotel venue. Many of the works<br />
have multiple meanings both visually and<br />
cerebrally. Visitors should come with an open<br />
mind and be prepared to re-visit many times!”<br />
1 The Knolls, Sentosa, Singapore,<br />
tel: +65 6377 8888<br />
16 NOVEMBER <strong>2009</strong><br />
CLOCKWISE FROM RIGHT: Markus<br />
Linnenbrink made his colourful artwork<br />
into wallpaper for Capella; sleep with<br />
Adam Cullen’s dramatic art; cosy up to<br />
Yayoi Kusama’s giant pumpkins<br />
Hotels are no longer just a place<br />
to sleep — the hippest now have<br />
world-class art collections to<br />
dazzle the jaded traveller<br />
WORDS RACHEL FARNAY JACQUES<br />
The Cullen<br />
Melbourne is set to be abuzz with colour<br />
when The Cullen, the fi rst of six new Art<br />
Series Hotels, opens its doors in November.<br />
Guests will be confronted by 450 of Adam<br />
Cullen’s original works and prints in all facets<br />
of the hotel, with the showpieces being two<br />
life-sized painted fi breglass cows in the<br />
foyer. The brainchild of Asian Pacifi c Building<br />
Corporation CEO Will Deague, other properties<br />
due to be rolled out are The Olsen, the group’s<br />
fl agship hotel due to open on Chapel Street<br />
in South Yarra in March 2010; The Blackman<br />
on St Kilda Road in mid-2010; followed by The<br />
Larwill on High Street, Prahran; The Knight<br />
on Glenferrie Road; and a sixth hotel to open<br />
on Daly Street, the artist of which is yet to be<br />
confi rmed. Only Melbourne is scheduled to get<br />
Art Series Hotels at this stage, but that could<br />
change, fi ngers crossed.<br />
Commercial Rd, Prahran, Melbourne,<br />
tel: +61 (3) 9098 1555<br />
Benesse House and Art House<br />
Dedicated art lovers will relish the journey<br />
required to reach Naoshima. This tiny island<br />
is about a half-day Shinkansen (bullet train)<br />
journey from Tokyo or Osaka, just off the<br />
coastal town of Takamatsu in the Seto Inland<br />
Sea. The reward at the end is the tranquil<br />
home of some truly spectacular installations,<br />
including site-specifi c works at the Chichu<br />
Museum (designed by renowned architect<br />
Tadao Ando), six breathtaking “Art House”<br />
installations and of course, the island’s most<br />
famous resident, the Benesse House museum/<br />
hotel, which shares a name with its benefactor,<br />
the Benesse Corporation.<br />
Don’t fret about patronising a corporaterun<br />
cultural institution, Benesse is anything<br />
but cookie-cutter — even a single night’s<br />
stay enjoying the Japanese-style hospitality<br />
is unique. You don’t have to stay there to visit<br />
the museum within the hotel, but guests<br />
have the privilege of wandering around the<br />
museum after-hours. There are also exclusive<br />
guestrooms such as the Keith Haring or David<br />
Tremlett suite in the magnifi cent Oval complex.<br />
Budget-watchers can stay at a traditional<br />
family-run ryokan (homestay) for a more<br />
intimate experience. Look for the dotty<br />
pumpkins by eccentric Japanese artist Yayoi<br />
Kusama lying around. – Alexis Ong<br />
Gotanji, Naoshima, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan,<br />
tel: +81 (87) 892 2030
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Photo: Tanya Smith Photography<br />
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WORDS ANNE LOH<br />
Australian Geographic<br />
Young<br />
Adventurers of the Year Justin Jones and<br />
James Castrission are going on tour to tell the<br />
public how they accomplished a world-fi rst<br />
feat — crossing the Tasman in a kayak. We get<br />
our oar in fi rst.<br />
You can fl y Jetstar across the Tasman, why<br />
did you decide to kayak instead?<br />
The idea came up on Day 31 of a kayaking<br />
expedition that we were doing down the entire<br />
length of the Murray River (2,560km) in 2001.<br />
James made a fl ippant comment that it would<br />
be pretty cool to paddle this sort of distance,<br />
but on the open ocean… how about the<br />
Tasman? We didn’t move on the idea for three<br />
years but the seed had been planted.<br />
What does it mean to be adventurers in<br />
this day and age?<br />
Sharing the experience with people back<br />
home. Technology has gotten to the point<br />
were we send photos and podcasts back to<br />
mainstream society and have live tracking<br />
on the web. It’s been pretty cool to be able<br />
to write a book and produce a documentary<br />
about our journey: Crossing the Ditch.<br />
Tell us about that unusual kayak built<br />
for you.<br />
We designed it for rough Tasman conditions.<br />
She is 9m long, 1.1m at her widest, and carried<br />
all the equipment that we needed in order to<br />
survive. We built a little cabin on the back of<br />
her (about the size of two coffi ns stacked on<br />
top of each other) to allow us to get out of the<br />
massive storms we were going to face. Fully<br />
loaded with us, she weighed close to a tonne.<br />
How did you prepare yourselves physically<br />
for the crossing?<br />
In the 18 months leading up to the expedition<br />
we trained on average 30 hours each week.<br />
This involved kayaking (obviously!), gym work,<br />
cross-training, tramping, cycling, running and<br />
a few sessions with the Australian Army where<br />
they put us through severe sleep and food<br />
deprivation training.<br />
What’s Justin and James’ next<br />
big adventure?<br />
We’re now in the throes of planning an<br />
Antarctic sled-hauling expedition. In two years’<br />
time, we’re going down to the ice and hauling<br />
our equipment and food 1,200km to the South<br />
Pole. There’s a big twist to what we’re doing<br />
down there that will make it<br />
a very interesting expedition<br />
for people to follow!<br />
World Expeditions and The<br />
North Face are presenting<br />
Justin and James in a<br />
multi-city Australian tour<br />
encompassing Sydney (17<br />
Nov), Melbourne (20 Nov)<br />
and Brisbane (24 Nov);<br />
tickets at AU$19.50. Call<br />
1300 720 000.<br />
NOVEMBER <strong>2009</strong> 19<br />
FIT TO GO
The<br />
phone rings 20 minutes later than expected.<br />
Keith Urban is on the line, backstage in<br />
Portland, Oregon, and apologetic for his tardiness. “I’m<br />
sorry, mate,” he offers humbly. “We’re performing here<br />
tonight and I just fi nished doing sound check.”<br />
The Portland pitstop turns out to be yet another soldout<br />
performance in Urban’s hit Escape Together world<br />
tour. His travelling road show of 13 semi-trailers and nine<br />
buses has criss-crossed more than 50 cities across the US<br />
and Canada, and is now headed home to Australia for fi ve<br />
mega shows in Melbourne, Sydney, Wollongong and his<br />
home state of Queensland, where he will play two shows in<br />
Brisbane in December. With a jam-packed schedule, it’s no<br />
wonder Urban is running late.<br />
“I took eight days off last week and that was the longest<br />
break I’ve had since I began touring in May,” he tells Jetstar<br />
Magazine in an exclusive interview. “It was purely a selfi sh<br />
reason why I took the break, too: because I’ve got such a<br />
good marriage. It took me half my life to fi nd my wife and<br />
now I just don’t want to be away from her.”<br />
Urban, 42, spoke with refreshing candour for a star<br />
whose tabloid-baiting marriage and troublesome past<br />
have made him a staple for gossip magazines around the<br />
globe. Through his trials and tribulations — which included<br />
being catapulted into the country-pop stratosphere and<br />
falling back to earth, via the Betty Ford Centre for drug and<br />
alcohol rehabilitation — Urban has emerged in the most<br />
comfortable place.<br />
20 NOVEMBER <strong>2009</strong><br />
He might have conquered the<br />
music charts, but it’s marriage<br />
and fatherhood that have brought<br />
Keith Urban peace — and success<br />
WORDS KATHY BUCHANAN
THROUGH HIS TRIALS AND<br />
TRIBULATIONS, URBAN HAS<br />
EMERGED IN THE MOST<br />
COMFORTABLE PLACE<br />
Photo: Corbis Outline/Andrew Macpherson<br />
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KEITH URBAN<br />
NOVEMBER <strong>2009</strong> 21
STAR STRUCK<br />
KEITH URBAN<br />
Urban gives his live performances his all<br />
INSET: Arriving at the premiere of<br />
Australia in Sydney with wife and<br />
actress Nicole Kidman<br />
You can hear it in his voice. Unwavering, he<br />
gushes about his three-year marriage to Nicole<br />
Kidman. The couple have a daughter, Sunday<br />
Rose, who turned one in July. “They’re my girls,”<br />
he says with pride. “It’s the simple and normal<br />
things, such as having breakfast as a family,<br />
which have brought such a grounding into my<br />
life. It’s such a wonderful experience.”<br />
Urban is fi nally living the life he used to sing<br />
about. In the past, he wrote about meeting<br />
the girl of his dreams and living happily ever<br />
after. Now Urban’s songs are fi lled with upbeat<br />
messages about love and life. It is, he admits, a<br />
portrait of domestic and personal bliss.<br />
“I wouldn’t go back in time for anything,”<br />
Urban explains. “I had an idea what it might<br />
be like to be married and a father, but for<br />
me, what has happened in my life is beyond<br />
anything I could have ever dreamed.”<br />
Urban’s new-found contentment is refl ected<br />
throughout his latest album, Defying Gravity,<br />
which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard chart<br />
and reached No. 3 in Australia. Its success also<br />
22 NOVEMBER <strong>2009</strong><br />
netted Urban a record haul<br />
of fi ve nominations for the<br />
Country Music Association<br />
Awards — including<br />
Entertainer of the Year. The<br />
winners will be announced on<br />
11 November.<br />
Urban says he was drawn<br />
to the positive tone because<br />
it was the energy that pulled<br />
him through the dark shadows<br />
of drug and alcohol abuse.<br />
“The title Defying Gravity is<br />
a metaphor for love and the<br />
power of the human spirit. When I started<br />
writing this album, it was really apparent to<br />
me that I was in a good place in my life, with<br />
the love of my wife and a new daughter,”<br />
he explains.<br />
“Having lived overseas for 17 years, I had<br />
gone through some real highs but also some<br />
intense lows, so it was an ideal time to make<br />
this record.” The song “My Heart is Open”<br />
has special signifi cance. “This song was<br />
sourced at the beginning of our relationship,”<br />
Urban reveals.<br />
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STAR STRUCK<br />
KEITH URBAN<br />
“It came from a<br />
conversation I had with<br />
Nicole, when we had<br />
just started dating. I<br />
asked her how her heart<br />
was, which was a really<br />
strange question. It was a way<br />
to fi nd out, ‘Where are you at?<br />
Is there a chance for us to go<br />
forward?’ Nic responded, ‘It’s<br />
open.’ I was really taken aback by<br />
that answer on so many levels. I<br />
thought it was an amazing thing<br />
to say, a really brave thing to say,<br />
to admit that to me,” he explains.<br />
Urban’s rough-hewn prettyboy<br />
looks have not just seduced<br />
Kidman. He has pushed a legion of<br />
women and their estrogen levels<br />
into the red with his formidable<br />
guitar talent and sharp songwriting.<br />
That talent was honed at age four,<br />
when his father gave him a ukulele<br />
and told him to strum in time to<br />
songs on the radio.<br />
Born in Whangarei, New Zealand<br />
and raised from an early age in<br />
Caboolture, Queensland, Urban’s<br />
parents belonged to an amateur<br />
country and western club, where they<br />
immersed their son in their record<br />
collection, which featured old-school<br />
artists such as Don Williams, Dolly<br />
Parton, Ronnie Milsap, Glen Campbell<br />
and Charlie Pride.<br />
Then, at seven, Urban predicted to<br />
his dad: “I am going to live in Nashville.”<br />
“I’d been playing guitar for about a<br />
year and I used to read the back of<br />
my parent’s records,” he remembers.<br />
“They all said ‘Recorded in Nashville,<br />
Tennessee,’ so I said, ‘I want to make<br />
records, and that’s where I will go to do it.’<br />
Here we are today.”<br />
After recording his fi rst solo album in<br />
Australia in 1990, which scored four No. 1<br />
hits, Urban left Queensland for the US and<br />
soon found himself playing guitar with the<br />
bestselling musical duo of all time, Brooks<br />
and Dunn.<br />
Individual stardom beckoned and soon<br />
Urban stepped into the spotlight in his own<br />
right. First, as the leader of the band The<br />
Ranch, and then as a self-titled soloist in<br />
1999 with an album that hit the top 20.<br />
I AM GOING TO LIVE IN<br />
NASHVILLE. I WANT TO MAKE<br />
RECORDS, AND THAT’S<br />
WHERE I WILL GO TO DO IT.<br />
HERE WE ARE TODAY<br />
24 NOVEMBER <strong>2009</strong><br />
Photo: Snapper Media/Peter Brew/Bevan Sue Southam Management<br />
KEITH URBAN’S<br />
FAVOURITE DESTINATIONS<br />
A cornerstone to Keith Urban and Nicole<br />
Kidman’s romance is privacy. While the couple<br />
primarily reside in several properties in the<br />
US, it is at their private retreat in rural New<br />
South Wales where they escape the trappings<br />
of celebrity. “We will spend Christmas there,<br />
this year,” he says with glee.
STAR STRUCK<br />
KEITH URBAN<br />
Urban’s musical life would go on to<br />
include two coveted Grammys, a swag of<br />
other awards and chart-topping albums<br />
and singles, which have guaranteed<br />
his place as one of the most successful<br />
touring and recording acts.<br />
His Escape Together concert tour, on<br />
sale now and which kicks off in Australia in<br />
Melbourne on 2 December, sees Urban playing<br />
multiple arena shows. His young family will be<br />
travelling in tow.<br />
“Sunday Rose hasn’t seen a show yet,” Urban<br />
says. “It’s a pretty loud and crazy environment,<br />
but she does come down to sound check every<br />
now and then. I’ve walked her around the stage<br />
and showed her all the lights, cameras and<br />
video screens. “I don’t know how much of it<br />
she’s going to remember but certainly for Nic<br />
and I, it’s a beautiful time for her to see all this.”<br />
For Urban, his return to Australia will be all<br />
the more momentous: a celebration of hitting<br />
the wall, and surviving in better shape. “It is<br />
remarkable,” he says. “I’m sitting in my tour bus<br />
right now, and as I look around, I think good<br />
God, I’ve got a bus. To have this success and<br />
Nicole and Sunday Rose, it’s absolutely<br />
heaven to me.”<br />
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Brisbane. Book online at Jetstar.com<br />
26 NOVEMBER <strong>2009</strong><br />
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Urban and his guitar<br />
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FRIDAY 18 DECEMBER* — ENTERTAINMENT<br />
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local culture through gorgeous prints so the luxury swimsuits<br />
are lapped up by fans all over the world. This season, the<br />
label is channelling 1960s icon Brigitte Bardot for her “loose,<br />
informal sex appeal and individuality”. Bondi’s own backyard<br />
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The<br />
legend of Hawaiian waterman<br />
Eddie Aikau has travelled further<br />
than the man himself ever did. Best known for<br />
his big wave riding and heroic rescues, Aikau’s<br />
life has inspired many around the world<br />
and is celebrated each December with the<br />
Quiksilver In Memory of Eddie Aikau Big Wave<br />
Invitational at Waimea Bay, Hawaii.<br />
“The Eddie”, as it is known, features the<br />
world’s top big wave riders — by invitation<br />
only — and is reserved for a rare day of<br />
epic proportions when Waimea is booming<br />
with waves over 10m. This year is the 25th<br />
anniversary and Australia’s Jamie Mitchell<br />
may fi nd himself an unlikely member in a lineup<br />
of big-name surfers. But his connection to<br />
Aikau and the waterman tradition might make<br />
him one of the worthiest contenders of all.<br />
For the fi rst time, Mitchell is on the offi cial<br />
shortlist of alternate invitees, the fi rst<br />
Australian to ever receive the honour. If any of<br />
the 28 elite invitees can’t make it or choose not<br />
34 NOVEMBER <strong>2009</strong><br />
World champion Jamie Mitchell is set to<br />
paddleboard into history when he rides<br />
the waves of his hero Eddie Aikau<br />
WORDS JODI WILMOTT<br />
to ride on the day, the Gold Coast local may<br />
realise his dream of riding in Aikau’s memory.<br />
It’s a major step for the former lifeguard<br />
who is an eight-time world champion<br />
paddleboarder. Even more impressive is<br />
that he only arrived on the big wave scene<br />
in 2003, but since making his debut has<br />
continued to astound, performing well on<br />
the biggest of days.<br />
“I’ve logged a lot of water time in the ocean,”<br />
says Mitchell. “It’s defi nitely different water<br />
time — out by yourself, alone. But I think<br />
paddleboarding has more in common with big<br />
wave riding than surfi ng small waves does.<br />
“When you see that big wave coming, you’ve<br />
got to talk yourself through it. Like when you’re<br />
out there alone, paddling. You talk to the ocean<br />
and you talk yourself through the process. It’s<br />
about understanding the ocean, reading how<br />
the wave is going to break, judgement, the<br />
sum of all your experiences.”<br />
It’s also about the ability to be confi dent<br />
when you’re way outside your comfort zone,<br />
that’s at the heart of being a waterman. It’s a<br />
place that Aikau and Mitchell share.<br />
The term waterman transcends the zone<br />
from shoreline to peaking wave where the<br />
tide of surfers continuously ebbs and fl ows<br />
from one generation to the next. It is the<br />
depth and breadth of a life lived in liquid that<br />
has the power to inspire those who share in<br />
the passionate pursuit of a relationship with<br />
the ocean.<br />
Aikau was more than a surfer. He was a<br />
free-diver, bodysurfer, voyager and lifeguard,<br />
performing countless rescues during his days<br />
as Waimea’s premier lifeguard in the 1960s<br />
and early 1970s. His daily life revolved around<br />
the ocean so it was fate that his life would end<br />
there, too.<br />
In 1978, en-route to Tahiti aboard the<br />
Hokule’a voyaging canoe, gale force winds<br />
and heaving seas capsized the vessel in the<br />
Molokai Channel. With no other means of
Photo: Bernie Baker<br />
world champ paddleboarder<br />
Jamie Mitchell<br />
securing help for his crew, Aikau insisted on<br />
paddling out alone for Lanai, some 19 miles<br />
away. He was just two months shy of his 32nd<br />
birthday. He was never seen again.<br />
Mitchell, at age 32, has found his connection<br />
with Aikau, and it’s out there in the same<br />
channel and bay of surf to which Aikau<br />
dedicated his life. Through the course of his<br />
eight 52km world championship crossings of<br />
the Molokai Channel, and while riding huge<br />
waves at Waimea Bay, Mitchell has embraced<br />
Aikau’s legacy and the tradition of the<br />
waterman, fi nding a common bond with the<br />
man he never met.<br />
Both were lifeguards; both have spent an<br />
inordinate number of hours on the ocean; both<br />
grew up swimming and bodysurfi ng the waves<br />
and developed an uncanny ability to “read” the<br />
ocean; both can perform in intense situations.<br />
“Every year when I paddle the channel there<br />
are times when my mind goes to Eddie,” says<br />
Mitchell. “It makes the connection special.<br />
Photo: Jamie Ballenger<br />
There have been some real tough times when<br />
I’ve had to look hard into my soul, dig deep,<br />
and ask myself if I really want this. You’ve got<br />
to want it.”<br />
He feels the same yearning when it comes<br />
to surfi ng in The Eddie. “It’s the ultimate<br />
honour. Just getting on the list is an honour. To<br />
actually surf in it would be amazing. I feel I’ve<br />
honoured Eddie a little with every crossing of<br />
the Molokai Channel and I hope to one day do<br />
the same in his event.<br />
“It’s like some kind of a vortex I’m in — the<br />
channel, the Bay, the Eddie. And I really want<br />
it. Until the day I die, it will be a special part of<br />
my life.”<br />
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Jamie surfs too<br />
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WAVES TO REMEMBER<br />
Quiksilver In Memory of Eddie Aikau<br />
Big Wave Invitational<br />
Offi cial Opening Ceremony: Waimea Bay,<br />
Oahu, Hawaii, 3 December, 3pm. Event period:<br />
1 December, <strong>2009</strong>, to 28 February, 2010.<br />
Th e actual event is held on a day when waves<br />
exceed 10m. Th e opening ceremony features a<br />
traditional Hawaiian blessing of the big wave<br />
riders and the event. Surfers will paddle out<br />
to make a tribute to Eddie Aikau then the<br />
event will run with a breath-taking display of<br />
incredible big-wave riding, and wipe-outs.<br />
Jamie Mitchell’s Favourite Waves<br />
• Waimea Bay and Sunset Beach, Hawaii<br />
• Currumbin, Kirra and Burleigh Heads, Gold<br />
Coast, Queensland, Australia<br />
PEOPLE<br />
JAMIE MITCHELL<br />
NOVEMBER <strong>2009</strong> 35
ADRENALINE<br />
AUCKLAND<br />
The countryside from Auckland to<br />
Wellington features rivers, mountains,<br />
gorges and lakes. For sports nuts,<br />
it’s the stuff of legendary road trips<br />
WORDS MATT CLEARY<br />
One<br />
of the things you’ll fi nd driving<br />
around New Zealand is that you<br />
often have to stop to gawk. For Australians<br />
who cling to the sandy green edges of their<br />
fl at red continent, driving among the jagged<br />
peaks, glaciers and impossibly turquoise<br />
lakes is like being a modern-day adventurer in<br />
Middle Earth.<br />
Turn a corner and there’s a snow-capped,<br />
Matterhorn-shaped mountain. There’s a lake<br />
so blue, sad songs could have been written<br />
about it. There’s Hobbiton with its meadows<br />
and bouncing spring lambs. There’s the Pillars<br />
of Argonath. There’s Mount Doom. The Lord of<br />
the Rings set is something else.<br />
But to Aussies, it’s also quite familiar. Same<br />
language, same side of the road, same Anzac<br />
biscuits. And like Australia, the locals are into<br />
sport to a degree bordering on fervour. The<br />
bottom line is that New Zealand’s rugged<br />
terrain provides the perfect location to ski,<br />
mountain bike and Zorb.<br />
The “extreme generation” can fl ing<br />
themselves off things and hike volcanoes,<br />
while the more sedate can golf and fi sh. This<br />
is Disneyland for the sports lover. Let us count<br />
the ways.<br />
For a high-octane Kiwi experience, hire a car<br />
and drive to the Coromandel Peninsula, 173km<br />
and two-and-a-half hours from Auckland.<br />
There you can join Coromandel Helicopters<br />
for a quick fl ight up to the Pinnacle Ridge,<br />
600m above sea level at the head of the<br />
Rangihau Valley. Then, it’s a thrilling bike ride<br />
down through green bush, working farms<br />
and river crossings, the paths of which can<br />
36 NOVEMBER <strong>2009</strong><br />
Photo: Tourism Coromandel<br />
be steep and rocky. Stop<br />
for a swim in one of the<br />
great watering holes, or<br />
power on down enjoying the<br />
exhilarating twists and turns.<br />
Experienced riders will take<br />
about an hour, others may<br />
take two.<br />
A three-hour drive<br />
south-east of Auckland<br />
is Zorb Rotorua, the<br />
“home of Zorb”, which is as<br />
quintessentially Kiwi-kooky as<br />
the rubber bands that bounce<br />
humans off great heights in<br />
the name of bungy. It works<br />
like this: a Zorb is a giant clear<br />
rubber ball which people climb<br />
into before being sent downhill<br />
at speeds of up to 30km/h.<br />
In “dry” or “Zorbit” mode,<br />
riders are strapped in. In “Zydro”<br />
mode they’re set free with 50L of water and a<br />
friend so they can tumble, fl ip or slide about<br />
together as the ball hurtles downhill. Add<br />
Photo: Tourism New Zealand<br />
bumps and berms like a giant’s BMX<br />
track and you’ve got a bouncy round<br />
washing machine that fl ies down a<br />
hill like a roller coaster.
Photo: Tourism Coromandel<br />
Swimming in Cathedral Cove at Coromandel<br />
OPPOSITE TOP/BOTTOM:<br />
Biking in Coromandel; if you haven’t Zorbed,<br />
you haven’t visited New Zealand<br />
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SmartGate<br />
is coming to New Zealand<br />
From December, holders of New Zealand<br />
and Australian ePassports who are over<br />
18 years old, will have the option of using<br />
SmartGate when arriving at Auckland<br />
International Airport.<br />
SmartGate is a simple and easy two-<br />
step process that performs customs<br />
and immigration checks, allowing you to<br />
self-process through passport control.<br />
For more information visit<br />
www.customs.govt.nz<br />
Passports with the gold international<br />
ePassport symbol are called ePassports.<br />
If you have this symbol on your passport<br />
you will be able to use SmartGate.<br />
SmartGate – the smart way to arrive<br />
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For something less gut wrenching, there’s<br />
fi shing. An hour south of Rotorua, Lake Taupo<br />
is known as the trout fi shing capital of the<br />
world. A morning’s fi shing aboard a luxury<br />
charter with Chris Jolly Outdoors is a magical<br />
experience, particularly given the trout are so<br />
big and fi t legend has it the water level drops<br />
every time you haul one in. Jolly also hosts fl yfi<br />
shing adventures.<br />
Thirty minutes south of Taupo (four<br />
hours from Auckland) is the volcanic Mount<br />
Tongariro, which juts out of the North Island<br />
as incongruously as K2 sticks out of the Hay<br />
Plain. It’s a gorgeous, eerie, white-topped<br />
massif that’s actually a series of vents which<br />
fi rst erupted 260,000 years ago.<br />
Its main active vent Mount Ngauruhoe last<br />
belched out lava rocks and a cloud of ash<br />
between 1973 and 1975. This latest period<br />
is the longest and quietest in recorded<br />
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT:<br />
Tramp the Tongariro Alpine Crossing;<br />
Malaysia A1GP driver Aaron Lim with<br />
the winning fi sh he caught at the<br />
2008 A1GP Drivers Fishing Contest<br />
on Lake Taupo; zoom around on<br />
quad bikes with McLeods<br />
Adventures; enjoy Mt Ruapehu’s<br />
ski fi elds and views<br />
Photo: Getty Images<br />
Photo: Getty Images<br />
history; experts believe the steam vents have<br />
temporarily cooled and that the main vent has<br />
now become blocked.<br />
Naturally, the Kiwis have built a walking<br />
track on it called the Tongariro Alpine Crossing<br />
which visitors “tramp” over with Adventure<br />
Headquarters while admiring this unusual,<br />
incredible volcano with views of turquoise<br />
lakes and barren, jagged gorges. Several<br />
operators host guided tours ranging from two<br />
hours to all day. Depending on the time of year,<br />
you should bring waterproof clothing, hiking<br />
Photo: Tourism New Zealand<br />
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boots, a mid-layer of fl eece or wool, a hat,<br />
gloves and a backpack containing food, water<br />
and sunscreen.<br />
Also within the Tongariro National Park<br />
are the ski fi elds of Mount Ruapehu. Locals<br />
will tell you the mountain offers the best<br />
natural skiing and snowboarding terrain in the<br />
country: huge snow fi lled basins, steep chutes,<br />
drop-offs and secret powder stashes. For this<br />
intermediate skier, it was simply a fun day out.<br />
The season runs roughly from June through to<br />
November. An all-day pass is NZ$83 (AU$69).<br />
NOVEMBER <strong>2009</strong> 39
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AUCKLAND<br />
AUCKLAND<br />
On the eastern edge of the North Island<br />
near Napier, six hours and 430km from<br />
Auckland (about fi ve hours north of<br />
Wellington), lies the golf nirvana of Cape<br />
Kidnappers. Overhead pictures of this place<br />
make golfers feel an almost physical craving.<br />
The course sits on a cliff edge 140m above<br />
waves, which crash against sheer limestone<br />
cliffs that look like a giant piece of cheesecake<br />
with a bite out of it. This is one of the most<br />
dramatic golf courses in the world. If you’re<br />
a golfer and you’re in Napier then you must<br />
40 NOVEMBER <strong>2009</strong><br />
Don’t lose your shot in the<br />
drink at Cape Kidnappers<br />
— repeat: must — play Cape Kidnappers.<br />
A 1,400-acre beef and sheep farm three<br />
hours south of Napier (and two hours north<br />
of Wellington) offers a very Kiwi experience,<br />
given the nation’s large provincial population:<br />
quad-biking. Local guides with McLeods<br />
Adventures put their guests aboard easyto-ride<br />
four-wheel motorbikes before they<br />
splash through the Ruakokoputuna and<br />
Makara rivers, bump over dirt tracks and zoom<br />
through the sheep-fi lled meadows and valleys<br />
of this working farm.<br />
FIND IT<br />
Coromandel Helicopters<br />
Mercury Bay Aero Club,<br />
Dakota Drive, Whitianga,<br />
tel: +64 (0) 274 672 643<br />
Zorb Rotorua<br />
Cnr Western Rd &<br />
State Hwy 5,<br />
Ngongotaha, Rotorua,<br />
tel: +64 (7) 357 5100<br />
Chris Jolly Outdoors<br />
Ferry Rd, Taupo Boat<br />
Harbour, Taupo,<br />
tel: +64 (7) 378 0623<br />
Adventure<br />
Headquarters<br />
State Hwy 47, Tongariro,<br />
tel: +64 (7) 386 0969<br />
Mount Ruapehu<br />
Tel: +64 (6) 385 8456<br />
Cape Kidnappers<br />
448 Clifton Rd, Te<br />
Awanga, Hawke’s Bay,<br />
tel: +64 (6) 875 1900<br />
McLeods Adventures<br />
Wharekauhau Country<br />
Estate, Western Lake Rd,<br />
Featherston,<br />
tel: +64 (6) 306 8846<br />
No experience is necessary to ride, but wet<br />
weather gear is required in winter, though<br />
shorts and joggers are fi ne in summer.<br />
McLeod’s supply helmets and a brilliant<br />
mud-fi lled hole in which you can do dozens of<br />
laps and cover yourself head-to-toe in mud<br />
— it’s super fun and makes a perfect fi nale.<br />
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BOUTIQUE BREWERIES<br />
Eat and drink up at<br />
Mudgee Brewery<br />
42 NOVEMBER <strong>2009</strong><br />
Beer has come of age in Australia with awards<br />
raining down on these innovative brewers<br />
WORDS CHRIS CANTY
From<br />
major Australian cities, to<br />
quaint country towns, devoted<br />
brewers are churning out some of the best<br />
craft beers in the world. We scour the country<br />
to fi nd the pioneers, the new upstarts and the<br />
recent award-winners at the <strong>2009</strong> Australian<br />
International Beer Awards (AIBA) where<br />
Aussies took 10 out of the 15 trophies, in a fi eld<br />
of 1,140 entries from across 39 countries.<br />
Mudgee Brewery<br />
In the small country town of Mudgee, three<br />
hours from Sydney, you’ll fi nd a 100-year-old<br />
wool store that has been lovingly converted<br />
into a brewery by Mudgee local, Gary Leonard.<br />
For him, beer is something more than a career.<br />
“Identifying and producing different beer<br />
tastes obviously requires a lot of beer tasting,<br />
one of the more enjoyable jobs that a brewer<br />
must do,” he says. “The variety of grains,<br />
hops and other fl avour ingredients gives an<br />
unlimited scope to producing different tastes<br />
and aromas. Beer is not just about the taste<br />
but about the whole drinking experience.”<br />
RECENT AWARDS: <strong>2009</strong> AIBA, Bronze Medal<br />
— Mudgee Porter.<br />
CHECK OUT: Their great menu and variety<br />
of brews in their own restaurant-bar. Tasting<br />
and informal chats with the brewer are always<br />
available and there’s live acoustic music on<br />
Thursday nights.<br />
Flying Horse Brewery<br />
This little gem only opened last year, but<br />
is already making waves, ironically in the<br />
surfi ng town of Warrnambool at the tail end<br />
of Victoria’s Great Ocean Road. Brewer Matt<br />
Doswell says it isn’t hard to fi nd inspiration.<br />
“Brewing beer on a micro brewing scale<br />
is a very hands-on process so everything<br />
Head to wine country for award-winning<br />
beer at Colonial Brewing<br />
Take off for<br />
Flying Horse Brewery<br />
that happens from grain to glass is in the<br />
brewers’ control. Knowing this gives me the<br />
desire to create something great. If it’s a case<br />
of creating something new, we listen to the<br />
drinkers and experiment with what they want,<br />
or we use our own imagination.”<br />
RECENT AWARDS: <strong>2009</strong> AIBA, Champion<br />
Porter — Dirty Angel.<br />
CHECK OUT: Their brewery doubles as a<br />
100-seat restaurant with outdoor terrace and<br />
courtyard. Brewery tours every Friday at 5pm<br />
or by appointment. Live music most weekends.<br />
Colonial Brewing<br />
Margaret River might be one of Australia’s<br />
most famous wine regions, but that didn’t stop<br />
Richard Moroney from opening a brewery,<br />
smack bang in the middle of it. Now some<br />
tourists come to the area just to sample his<br />
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brews. When asked about his inspiration he<br />
answers philosophically.<br />
“Handcrafted beers refl ect what it means to<br />
be human. Good beers tend to brew you, just as<br />
much as you brew them. We focus on attention<br />
to detail and careful selection of raw materials,<br />
ensuring we deliver a superior beer experience.”<br />
RECENT AWARDS: <strong>2009</strong> AIBA, Best WA Beer<br />
— Colonial Kolsch Ale.<br />
CHECK OUT: The views of the Bramly National<br />
Park forest, while sampling a few brews straight<br />
from the tap. If you’re hungry, try out the pizza<br />
or tapas from 11am–4pm daily.<br />
Mountain Goat Brewery<br />
is no kid to brewing<br />
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Mountain Goat Brewery<br />
It’s hard to believe that this multi-award<br />
winning Melbourne brewery has been<br />
operating for the last 13 years, making it one of<br />
the pioneers of Victoria’s craft beer industry.<br />
But as brewer Dave Bonighton attests, there<br />
are no signs of complacency.<br />
“I get easily inspired when it comes to<br />
beer. When it came to brewing Rapunzel,<br />
our Belgian Blonde, I’d just come back from<br />
Belgium and my taste buds were alive with<br />
Belgian-style ales. It’s a style that not many<br />
brewers in Australia attempt. We brew beers<br />
that we like to drink, and where we think<br />
there’s a gap in the bottle shop shelf.”<br />
RECENT AWARDS: <strong>2009</strong> AIBA, Best Victorian<br />
Beer — Rapunzel.<br />
CHECK OUT: Their trendy inner city pad on<br />
Fridays 5pm–midnight where a range of beers<br />
and pizzas are available. Free brewery tours on<br />
Wednesdays at 6.30pm.<br />
Two Metre Tall Company<br />
Deep in Tasmania’s Derwent Valley, Jane and<br />
Ashley Huntington are doing everything from<br />
scratch. Growing their own barley, wheat<br />
and hops, their farm-based brewery is rare<br />
in Australia.<br />
“Growing our own ingredients inspires us<br />
to brew fully fl avoured real ales,” says Jane.<br />
“As a trained winemaker now brewing ale,<br />
Ashley can’t believe that no other breweries<br />
are growing their own ingredients like wineries<br />
grow their grapes.”<br />
A drop of gold at<br />
Sunshine Coast Brewery<br />
Photo: Matt Kirkegaard<br />
Two Metre Tall Company have<br />
given themselves high standards<br />
RECENT AWARDS: The brewers choose not<br />
to enter competitions.<br />
CHECK OUT: Their brewery is a converted<br />
shearing shed on a 600ha farm with stunning<br />
views of Mount Field National Park and<br />
beyond. Call ahead for tastings, tours of the<br />
farm and brewery, and direct sales.<br />
Sunshine Coast Brewery<br />
Situated just outside of Maroochydore,<br />
around 15 minutes from the Sunshine Coast’s<br />
famous beaches, brewer Ian Watson offers<br />
holidaymakers and beer lovers an ideal respite<br />
from the sun. He says it’s best for a brewer to<br />
follow their heart.<br />
“There’s no such thing as a new taste, it has<br />
all been done before but perhaps not done<br />
quite the way that each individual brewer<br />
Taste paradise at Cairns’<br />
Blue Sky Brewing<br />
does it. Trends are something that most craft<br />
brewers avoid, preferring to concentrate<br />
on making a quality beer and letting the<br />
consumer discover it themselves.”<br />
RECENT AWARDS: <strong>2009</strong> AIBA, Champion<br />
Reduced and Low Alcohol Beer — Sunshine<br />
Coast Summer Ale.<br />
CHECK OUT: Their Brewery Bar is open<br />
Mon–Tue 11am–2pm, and Wed–Sat 11am–<br />
6pm, providing a selection of craft beers on<br />
tap and good value lunches.<br />
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Blue Sky Brewing<br />
Opened late last year, there’s something a little<br />
over the top about building a brewery in what<br />
is already paradise — Cairns being a launching<br />
point for the Great Barrier Reef, rainforests and<br />
picturesque islands. Australia’s most northern<br />
brewery hasn’t wasted any time making an<br />
impact, already creating nine<br />
award-winning beers.<br />
Like the local weather, Adam<br />
Smith says making beer is all<br />
about adapting.<br />
“Blue Sky holds a brewer’s<br />
reserve which is a seasonal<br />
beer changing every three<br />
months to coincide with<br />
warming or cooling weather<br />
patterns and subsequent<br />
changes in diet. We’ve just<br />
released a honey-laden Blue Sky<br />
pale ale with a crisp yet malty<br />
fi nish — a perfect spring edition.”<br />
RECENT AWARDS: <strong>2009</strong> AIBA,<br />
4 silver and 5 bronze medals.<br />
CHECK OUT: Their daily beer<br />
tours and tastings at 11am, 4pm<br />
and 6pm (AU$16) and their nightly<br />
food and drink specials that attract<br />
hundreds each day.<br />
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BOUTIQUE BOUTIQUE BREWERIES<br />
Taste beer with grunt<br />
at Feral Brewing<br />
46 NOVEMBER <strong>2009</strong><br />
Feral Brewing<br />
When Feral Brewing dominated the <strong>2009</strong><br />
Australian International Beer Awards, beer<br />
lovers from outside of Western Australia<br />
asked in unison… who are these guys? Brewer<br />
Brendan Varis says getting inspiration is all<br />
about living in WA.<br />
“Often I will become aware of a historical<br />
beer style that may suit our climate or way of<br />
life here. There are many historical beer styles<br />
that the public know nothing about that have<br />
a heap of interesting fl avours. That being said,<br />
when doing new product development, there<br />
are no boundaries.”<br />
RECENT AWARDS: <strong>2009</strong> AIBA,<br />
Champion Exhibitor Trophy;<br />
Champion Small Brewery<br />
Champion Ale — Feral Hop Hog;<br />
Champion Scotch & Barley<br />
Wines — Razorback;<br />
Champion Hybrid Beer<br />
— Feral White.<br />
CHECK OUT: Their<br />
restaurant-brewery which<br />
Varis says offers “slightly<br />
offbeat beer food for slightly<br />
offbeat people”. Open Mon–Thu 11am–5pm.<br />
Fri–Sun 11 to late.<br />
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FIND IT<br />
Mudgee Brewing<br />
Company<br />
4 Church St, Mudgee,<br />
New South Wales,<br />
tel: +61 (2) 6372 6726<br />
Flying Horse Brewery<br />
Cnr Princes Hwy<br />
and Mahoneys Rd,<br />
Warrnambool, Victoria,<br />
tel: +61 (3) 5562 2254<br />
Colonial Brewing<br />
Company<br />
Osmington Rd, Margaret<br />
River, Western Australia,<br />
tel: +61 (8) 9758 8177<br />
Mountain Goat Brewery<br />
Cnr North and Clark Sts,<br />
Richmond, Victoria,<br />
tel: +61 (3) 9428 1180<br />
Two Metre<br />
Tall Company<br />
2862 Lyell Hwy,<br />
Hayes, Tasmania,<br />
tel: +61 (3) 6261 1930<br />
Sunshine Coast Brewery<br />
13 Endeavour Dve,<br />
Kunda Park, Queensland,<br />
tel: +61 (7) 5476 6666<br />
Blue Sky Brewery<br />
34-42 Lake St,<br />
Cairns, Queensland,<br />
tel: +61 (7) 4057 0500<br />
Feral Brewing<br />
152 Haddrill Rd,<br />
Baskerville,<br />
Western Australia,<br />
tel: +61 (8) 9296 4657
FLY/DRIVE<br />
MARGARET RIVER<br />
FROM TOP: Take a walk along Busselton Jetty;<br />
watch an Indian Ocean sunset<br />
OPPOSITE: The coast’s surfi ng is legendary<br />
48 NOVEMBER <strong>2009</strong><br />
Exploring the south-west of Western<br />
Australia is a fragrant journey punctuated<br />
by fi ne wines, gourmet delights and sweet<br />
scented forests of towering giants<br />
WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHY JUSTIN EELES
“We<br />
have a 4-wheel drive adventurer<br />
vehicle available sir; it can sleep<br />
four and go virtually wherever you want it to.”<br />
I didn’t need to hear any more, I was sold.<br />
The freedom of the open road beckoned and<br />
although the thought of camping caused a<br />
few worries for my more urbanised partner,<br />
I assured her that a campervan wasn’t<br />
really camping and would defi nitely be an<br />
experience to remember.<br />
When we were presented with the vehicle<br />
at Perth’s Britz HQ the following day, I<br />
became aware of just what an adventure<br />
it would be. Not really a campervan at all,<br />
the Britz Adventurer is a monstrous Toyota<br />
LandCruiser, armed with a fridge, cooker and<br />
all the tools you might need for an outback<br />
barbecue, with a foldable tent on its roof. To<br />
me, it looked like a boyhood dream; to my<br />
navigator a chamber of horrors.<br />
Getting up close and personal with<br />
Australia’s vast diversity is what attracts<br />
huge numbers of visitors here every year,<br />
and campervans are very much the vehicle<br />
of choice.<br />
On my four-day adventure I fl ew into Perth<br />
Airport to discover the coastal region south<br />
of Perth, travel through Busselton to the<br />
vineyards of Margaret River, on to the ancient<br />
giants of the Great Southern Forest and<br />
down to the most southern coastal plains of<br />
Western Australia.<br />
Perth to Busselton<br />
As the northern gateway to the Margaret River<br />
region, Busselton is an ideal place to spend<br />
the fi rst night, take in some local sights and<br />
stock up on supplies for the trip. There are<br />
numerous accommodation opportunities in<br />
town, but I ignored the pleas for a solid roof<br />
and found a suitable campsite at Peppermint<br />
Park Eco Village. With a list of facilities as long<br />
GETTING UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL WITH<br />
AUSTRALIA’S VAST DIVERSITY IS WHAT<br />
ATTRACTS HUGE NUMBERS OF VISITORS<br />
as your arm and cycles to enjoy the path along<br />
the coast to the town’s famous 3km wooden<br />
jetty, it was an ideal place to set up camp.<br />
After the three-hour drive from Perth,<br />
swapping the confi nes of four wheels for the<br />
freedom of two is an excellent way to ventilate<br />
the lungs with some fresh ocean air.<br />
Busselton is one of those places that inspire<br />
outdoor pursuits. Blessed with a stunning<br />
coastline overlooking Geographe Bay and<br />
a climate considerably cooler than Perth<br />
to the north, the healthy environment has<br />
obviously rubbed off on the locals and people<br />
of all ages were out jogging, biking, sailing or<br />
playing volleyball on the beach. The<br />
beach cycle path is a great way to<br />
explore the town and is<br />
just part of a network<br />
of local walks and<br />
rides designed to keep<br />
people on the move.<br />
This sporting frenzy<br />
may have something to do<br />
with the area’s reputation<br />
for gastronomic wonders<br />
— within easy driving<br />
distance, the Margaret<br />
River Chocolate Factory<br />
does a brisk trade, as does<br />
the Cheese Company nearby<br />
and in Busselton itself, The Goose<br />
restaurant overlooking the iconic jetty<br />
offers some of the best food and wine in<br />
Western Australia. Good sense told me<br />
to assemble the rooftop canvas cabin<br />
in pitch darkness but true to the DVD we were<br />
shown at pick-up, it was a simple operation.<br />
FLY/DRIVE<br />
MARGARET RIVER<br />
Photo: Tourism Western Australia<br />
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Map Illustration: Bill Wood
Busselton to Margaret River<br />
Before the world turned its attention to<br />
Margaret River wines and the area started<br />
developing for tourism, most of the locals<br />
were either surfers or farmers and very often<br />
both. Indeed, award-winning local winemaker<br />
Damon Eastaugh, from Flying Fish Cove,<br />
has the honour of riding the area’s largest<br />
recorded wave, an impressive 10.2m high.<br />
Now it’s more than surfers who are drawn<br />
here — the area is a favourite Perth weekend<br />
escape and a top tourist attraction, with most<br />
drawn by the opportunity to visit the vineyards<br />
and taste the latest vintages.<br />
The concept of “cellar door” wine tasting<br />
and sales has grown at a formidable rate over<br />
the past fi ve years — there are now over 80<br />
boutique wineries operating in Margaret River.<br />
With this expansion comes a similar growth in<br />
other activities available for visitors, including<br />
biking, kayaking, trekking, kite surfi ng, diving,<br />
cruises, cave tours and even whale watching.<br />
Wine was high on our list of priorities, so<br />
the following day, after a blissful sleep in the<br />
surprisingly comfortable rooftop den, we set<br />
off down Caves Road for our fi rst appointment<br />
of the day, a tour and tasting at Mosswood.<br />
One of the oldest vineyards in Margaret River,<br />
it has a reputation for producing some of the<br />
best wines in Western Australia.<br />
Mosswood is one of the few vineyards<br />
that requires an appointment and with good<br />
reason. Instead of sharing a counter with<br />
whoever happens to be visiting the vineyard,<br />
here guests are given a short tour of the<br />
facility and then treated to a real cellar door<br />
experience — wine is tasted in the actual cellar<br />
from both the bottle and the barrel. Local girl<br />
Angie Bussel talked us through the Mosswood<br />
range, starting on light fruity whites before<br />
moving on through a divine Pinot Noir to the<br />
heavyweight Cabernet Sauvignon that’s built<br />
the vineyard’s reputation. Be warned: it’s<br />
very hard to leave a cellar door of this calibre<br />
without severely denting your wallet.<br />
A few kilometres down Caves Road,<br />
other vineyards have also been drawing the<br />
world’s attention to the Margaret River area,<br />
CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Let the forest swallow<br />
you up; gastronomic delights at Watershed<br />
winery; savour the region’s wines at Mosswood<br />
particularly Vasse Felix, where<br />
the region’s fi rst vines were<br />
planted by Dr Tom Cullity in<br />
1967, after the local government<br />
decided that the area might have<br />
the perfect soil for viticulture.<br />
Since then, Vasse Felix has grown<br />
into one of Australia’s most<br />
successful vineyards, exporting<br />
their wine around the world. The<br />
vineyard also hosts one of the<br />
best restaurants in the area. Set<br />
on a raised balcony overlooking<br />
the vines, it’s the ideal place for a<br />
long leisurely lunch.<br />
To help walk off an afternoon of<br />
gastronomic excess, the beach at<br />
Yallingup nearby is located on the<br />
coastal Cape to Cape trail that<br />
winds it way south from Cape<br />
Naturaliste to Cape Leeuwin with its famous<br />
lighthouse. This 135km trek offers the keen<br />
hiker an excellent way of exploring the region’s<br />
beaches, with regular campsites dotted along<br />
the path providing accommodation. For<br />
those on a more casual exercise regime,<br />
the path offers some excellent vantage<br />
points to watch the sun set slowly into<br />
the Indian Ocean.<br />
Forsaking the van for one night<br />
for the chance to sleep in an ecocabin<br />
in the trees at Forest Rise Eco<br />
Retreat, the next day I was woken<br />
just after dawn by birdsong and the<br />
atmospheric sounds of the forest.<br />
As early mornings are the best time<br />
to see the local wildlife, I hopped<br />
onto the supplied mountain bike<br />
and ventured out on a two-wheeled<br />
safari. Barely metres from the<br />
room, I almost ran over a family<br />
of feasting kangaroos, the fi rst of<br />
many encounters as I circled<br />
the property.<br />
Photo: Tourism Western Australia<br />
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MARGARET RIVER<br />
Margaret River to Walpole<br />
This small forest was just a taster of what<br />
was to come on the drive further south<br />
as we left Margaret River behind and<br />
entered the vast Karri forests and<br />
national parks that cover large swathes of<br />
the south-west tip of Western Australia.<br />
The town of Pemberton is about 90 minutes<br />
from Margaret River and has a growing wine<br />
industry of its own, as well as a host of outdoor<br />
country pursuits, including climbing some of<br />
the massive trees that cover the landscape.<br />
The Gloucester Tree, at 61m, is one such<br />
climb. With over a million people reported<br />
to have climbed to the summit since it was<br />
pegged in 1946, this giant Karri tree (part of<br />
the Eucalyptus family, only found in this area<br />
of Western Australia and second only to the<br />
giant redwoods of California in height) offers<br />
the brave a treetop view of the forest and its<br />
diverse birdlife. But one look at the precarious<br />
steel pegs and winding climb made up my<br />
mind — I’d be part of the 80% of cowardly<br />
visitors who don’t make it to the top.<br />
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A less scary way of enjoying the canopy’s<br />
view is available down the Western Highway at<br />
the Valley of the Giants Tree Top Walk, near<br />
the town of Walpole. This place is so wild and<br />
remote it has a wilderness named after it. The<br />
Walpole Wilderness covers seven national<br />
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Enjoy the Tree<br />
Top Walk’s views<br />
parks over an area of 363,000ha,<br />
about the size of Luxembourg. If being<br />
surrounded by the wonders of nature,<br />
miles away from the modern world is<br />
what you’re looking for, Walpole has<br />
ancient forests fringed by the wild coast<br />
of the Southern Ocean. The air here<br />
is not just fresh, it’s fragrant with the<br />
sweet scents of the forest.<br />
The Tree Top Walk takes visitors<br />
along an inspiring 600m elevated<br />
platform high in a forest of Tingle<br />
trees, another species only found<br />
here. Down on ground level below the<br />
platform, the Ancient Empire Walk<br />
takes you on an elevated boardwalk<br />
through the forest to meet some of<br />
its more gnarly characters.<br />
Walpole to Perth<br />
On our third morning, my co-pilot’s<br />
allergy to outside slumber had obviously<br />
subsided and it was quite a battle coaxing her<br />
out of the snug penthouse wigwam for the long<br />
drive back to the city. From Walpole to Perth,<br />
it’s a fi ve-hour trip inland through Denmark<br />
and Mount Barker up Albany Highway. Cutting<br />
through enormous forests, vast stretches<br />
FIND IT<br />
Britz<br />
471 Great Eastern Hwy,<br />
Redcliff e,<br />
tel: +61 (8) 9479 5208<br />
Peppermint Park<br />
Eco Village<br />
97 Caves Rd, Abbey,<br />
Busselton,<br />
tel: +61 (8) 9755 4241<br />
Th e Goose<br />
Th e Jetty, Geographe Bay<br />
Rd, Busselton,<br />
tel: +61 (8) 9754 7700<br />
Mosswood<br />
Metricup Rd, Wilyabrup,<br />
tel: +61 (8) 9755 6266<br />
Vasse Felix<br />
Caves Rd,<br />
Margaret River,<br />
tel: +61 (8) 9756 5000<br />
Forest Rise Eco Retreat<br />
415 Yelverton Rd,<br />
Margaret River,<br />
tel: +61 (8) 9755 7110<br />
Valley of the Giants<br />
South Coast Highway,<br />
Nornalup,<br />
tel: +61 (8) 9840 8200<br />
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Little ones can strap onto parents on a<br />
zip-line and fl y through the trees<br />
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Photo: Hollybank Treetops Adventure
Six-year-old Sophie<br />
is about<br />
to burst with excitement. Strapped to her<br />
father, she’s just itching to leap from the<br />
platform to go fl ying through the Tasmanian<br />
forest. I’m waiting on the next “cloud station”.<br />
Flying along a zip-line myself is one thing, but<br />
watching my husband and daughter about to<br />
jump into thin air is another.<br />
He steps cautiously from the platform.<br />
They immediately speed towards me. As they<br />
approach, my husband raises his feet and<br />
runs in to land on my cloud station — a bit like<br />
a swan landing on a lake, but not as graceful.<br />
Sophie has a huge grin on her face. “That was<br />
so cool! Can we do the next one now?”<br />
We’re at Hollybank Treetops Adventure,<br />
about 20km from Launceston in northern<br />
Tasmania and the only continuous<br />
cable-guided treetop tour in Australia. And<br />
it’s loads of fun.<br />
Guides fi t our harnesses and take our group<br />
through a zip-line training run. The guides<br />
Let the little devils run wild on<br />
the rugged island of Tasmania<br />
WORDS ALLISON HARDING<br />
encourage us to shout, fl ap our arms and<br />
enjoy the view during our fl ights between each<br />
cloud station. We don’t need to disconnect<br />
over the entire 700m of the ride and the<br />
guides are constantly on hand to reassure any<br />
anxious participants.<br />
“How high do you think we are?” one guide<br />
asks the group. “About 100m!” one nervous<br />
participant says with certainty. “No, we’re only<br />
20m above the ground,” comes the easy reply.<br />
It sure seems higher. We have a bird’s-eye<br />
view of the Tamar Valley, while the fi nal leg is<br />
a breathtaking cross of the Pipers River. This<br />
month’s promotion lets adults ride for the<br />
children’s price of AU$75. (From December,<br />
adults will be AU$100.)<br />
Driving south to Hobart, we visit the coastal<br />
town of Bicheno for an intimate penguin<br />
experience. Groups of no more than 20 are<br />
taken to the rookery from the town centre<br />
around dusk, when the penguins return from<br />
fi shing. Don’t wear open shoes — despite their<br />
cuteness, penguins like biting toes!<br />
We’re also advised to wear warm clothes,<br />
even on milder nights. Down by the water,<br />
we’re surprisingly close to the little<br />
Photo: Hollybank Treetops Adventure<br />
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penguins as they patter to their burrows.<br />
Children and adults alike are charmed by<br />
the experience.<br />
Rugging up is also necessary when we<br />
head to Hobart’s stunning waterfront for<br />
the Lady Nelson pirate experience — in<br />
swashbuckling attire, of course. The<br />
tall ship is a full size replica of the original<br />
Lady Nelson brig, built in England in 1799<br />
and rebuilt in 1987 by the Tasmanian Sail<br />
Training Association.<br />
Volunteer pirates wearing bandanas and<br />
gold earrings man the ship for the pirate<br />
adventure sails. The adult pirates run treasure<br />
hunts and show the children how to tie knots<br />
and hoist the sails. Six-year-olds are the<br />
youngest allowed on the adventures. And be<br />
aware the pirates might be a bit too real for<br />
some littlies. After all, blackened teeth and<br />
fake fl oggings can be scary.<br />
One youngster, on board without an older<br />
sibling or friend, looks anxious at the start.<br />
“Are you sure they’re not real, like in Pirates of<br />
the Caribbean? They look really real,” he asks.<br />
But the pirates keep a close watch and remind<br />
any uncertain children “it’s all just pretend”.<br />
THE ADULT PIRATES RUN<br />
TREASURE HUNTS AND SHOW<br />
THE CHILDREN HOW TO TIE<br />
KNOTS AND HOIST THE SAILS<br />
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Photo: Lady Nelson
Breathe in the view at the<br />
top of Mount Wellington;<br />
RIGHT: Get a dinosaur-size<br />
welcome at the Tasmanian Museum<br />
WE EVEN HAVE PEOPLE WHO HAVEN’T<br />
BEEN ON A BIKE IN 20 YEARS, BUT THE<br />
GUIDES WATCH AND ENCOURAGE THEM<br />
After experiencing maritime history, check<br />
out more history at the terrifi c Tasmanian<br />
Museum and Art Gallery in the centre<br />
of Hobart. Entry is free and kids love the<br />
welcoming giant dinosaur skeleton.<br />
Specimens of intriguing Tasmanian<br />
creatures include the extinct Tasmanian<br />
tiger and Tasmanian emu and the threatened<br />
Tasmanian devil. Older children enjoy the gory<br />
tales of the island’s convict past while the<br />
permanent “Islands to Ice: The Great Southern<br />
Ocean and Antarctica” exhibit is a must.<br />
If the family’s ready for some exercise,<br />
consider cycling down Hobart’s Mount<br />
Wellington — a minibus will take riders to<br />
the 1,270m high summit. Island Cycle Tours<br />
supplies all equipment and provides one guide<br />
per fi ve riders.<br />
A safety vehicle follows cyclists along the<br />
21km road down the mountain. Island Cycle<br />
Tours’ Samantha Denmead says all types of<br />
people enjoy the experience. (Participants<br />
must be taller than 140cm to take part,<br />
which generally means children over eight<br />
years of age.)<br />
“We even have people<br />
who haven’t been<br />
on a bike in 20 years, but<br />
the guides watch and<br />
encourage them,” she<br />
says. “The descent is<br />
not particularly steep<br />
and we stop regularly<br />
for drink breaks and to<br />
take in the view.”<br />
The cycle tour<br />
arrives back in Hobart<br />
via Salamanca<br />
Place, Hobart’s<br />
entertainment hot<br />
spot and home to a<br />
fantastic Saturday<br />
market. The<br />
gorgeous Faerie Shop, with<br />
regular storytelling sessions, is a must for<br />
young children (especially girls).<br />
Salamanca will also be one of the hotspots<br />
for the <strong>2009</strong>/2010 Taste of Tasmania<br />
Festival, which runs from 28 December to<br />
3 January. Coinciding with the arrival of the<br />
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Photo: Island Cycle Tours<br />
Photo: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery/Peter West<br />
yachts in the Sydney to Hobart race (which<br />
depart Sydney on Boxing Day), the festival<br />
showcases top local food and beverages and<br />
is complemented by artists and performers on<br />
the waterfront.<br />
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Give your kid a boogie<br />
board for endless fun<br />
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Head south from Hobart to the Huon River<br />
for jet boat rides. En route, it’s worth visiting the<br />
lovely Kingston Beach — clean, long and safe<br />
for children. Buy a cheap boogie board and let<br />
the kids ride the gentle waves into shore.<br />
We cruise upriver on the jet boat from the<br />
Huonville base, passing farms and dilapidated<br />
jetties. It’s all very tranquil. But a deep breath<br />
is needed when we hit fast fl owing water and<br />
rapids. The river bottom is suddenly visible<br />
and we spin 360 degrees before the boat<br />
comes to a standstill in foaming water.<br />
The driver fi lls us in on the history of the<br />
Huon River before we rev up for a few more<br />
spins, leaving the kids giggling and breathless.<br />
All in all, Tassie makes a great show-and-tell.<br />
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FIND IT<br />
Hollybank Treetops<br />
Adventure<br />
66 Hollybank Rd,<br />
Launceston,<br />
tel: +61 (3) 6395 1390<br />
Bicheno Penguin Tours<br />
Town centre, Tasman<br />
Hwy, Bicheno,<br />
tel: +61 (3) 6375 1333<br />
Lady Nelson<br />
Franklin Wharf, Hobart,<br />
tel: +61 (3) 6234 3348<br />
Tasmanian Museum<br />
and Art Gallery<br />
40 Macquarie St, Hobart,<br />
tel: +61 (3) 6211 4177<br />
Island Cycle Tours<br />
Tel: +61 (3) 6228 4255<br />
Taste of Tasmania<br />
Tel: +61 (3) 6238 2100<br />
Huon Visitor<br />
Centre Jetty<br />
Huonville,<br />
Tel: +61 (3) 6264 1838
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Photo: Sheriden Rhodes<br />
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Country Chic<br />
There’s something about country air that<br />
not only gives you a healthy appetite, it also<br />
inspires romance. And Daylesford in country<br />
Victoria, Australia’s unoffi cial spa capital,<br />
offers the best of country cuisine, home-grown<br />
wines, beautiful walks and more massage<br />
therapists per capita than anywhere in<br />
Australia. In summer, wander into the Wombat<br />
State Forest with your picnic hamper in<br />
hand and you may just fi nd a gully bursting<br />
with butterfl ies.<br />
Check into either an amorous selfcontained<br />
cottage, or for all-round indulgence<br />
you can’t go past the romantic Lake House<br />
where countless proposals, weddings and<br />
honeymoons have taken place. Combine an<br />
exclusive Salus Spa signature massage —<br />
where two therapists work harmoniously using<br />
different massage techniques and fragrant<br />
oils such as lilac, citrus and rosemary — with<br />
an overnight stay, two-course lunch and glass<br />
of wine in the award-winning Lake House<br />
Restaurant, full breakfast the next morning<br />
and late checkout of 1pm, from AU$560 per<br />
person (valid until February 2010).<br />
Waiheke Island is another option for<br />
honeymooners wanting to combine the best<br />
of country life with secluded beaches. As the<br />
ferry crosses the sparkling Hauraki Gulf from<br />
Auckland, hold hands and breathe in the fresh,<br />
salty air.<br />
Dotted with rolling green hills covered with<br />
vines and olive groves and broken up by sandy<br />
inlets, the island is home to artists, alternative<br />
lifestylers, winemakers, olive growers and<br />
offi ce workers who commute to town by<br />
high-speed ferry.<br />
Overlooking Owhanake Bay,<br />
and inspired by the land, the<br />
Mediterranean and the image<br />
of a Maori bone fi shhook<br />
(matau), the luxurious<br />
Delamore Lodge was<br />
purposefully designed without<br />
a single straight wall, and<br />
sits high atop a north-facing<br />
slope with breathtaking<br />
views. A pathway leads to a<br />
pristine and mostly deserted<br />
beach, while a magnifi cent<br />
Mexican-style fi replace<br />
takes pride of place on the<br />
terrace overlooking the<br />
glistening blue waters of<br />
the Pacifi c.<br />
Delamore’s honeymoon<br />
package, priced from<br />
NZ$1,549 (AU$1,292)<br />
per person, includes<br />
two nights in a luxury<br />
suite, transfers from the<br />
wharf, a bottle of bubbly, pre-dinner drinks<br />
and canapés, breakfast daily, a sumptuous<br />
four-course dinner at the acclaimed Mudbrick<br />
Restaurant on the second night plus a<br />
vineyard tour for two. Hire a scooter and<br />
tour the island with the wind in your hair.<br />
As the sun sets over the Huaraki Gulf, soak<br />
in a luxurious deep bath and toast your new<br />
life together.<br />
What to pack:<br />
• Favourite jeans • Floral dress<br />
• Straw hat • Bubble bath<br />
• Picnic basket and blanket<br />
CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Taste<br />
the wines and local produce of<br />
Waiheke Island; and Margaret<br />
River; enjoy a jungle romance<br />
at Daintree Secrets<br />
IN FOCUS<br />
HONEYMOONS<br />
Ocean Escapade<br />
If you’re both wine lovers, step aboard Classic<br />
International Cruises’ Australian liner,<br />
Athena, and submit to the allure of fi ne wine<br />
and romance on the high seas. Athena’s brand<br />
new four-night “Sweethearts Sojourn” sails<br />
from Fremantle in Western Australia on 14<br />
February, 2010, for Bunbury and Albany on the<br />
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With these ports being on the doorstep of<br />
more than 100 wineries, great restaurants,<br />
art galleries, unspoiled coastline and more,<br />
the two of you can explore the Margaret River<br />
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IN FOCUS<br />
HONEYMOONS<br />
via shore tours or hire cars. Onboard,<br />
passengers will enjoy love-themed<br />
cocktails, seafood feasts, heart-shaped<br />
cakes and a free rose for every lady. And<br />
Athena’s onboard chapel is available<br />
for weddings and renewal of vows<br />
ceremonies from just AU$125.<br />
All-inclusive fares start from AU$850 per<br />
person, twin-share, or if you really want to<br />
spoil your new spouse, book one of Athena’s<br />
43 suites from AU$1,235 per person, twinshare.<br />
All cabins offer a bathtub for romantic<br />
soaks — a luxury usually only found in<br />
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What to pack:<br />
• Maxi dress<br />
• Espadrilles<br />
• Sarong<br />
• Scented lip balm<br />
• Sunhat<br />
Jetstar flies to over 50 honeymoon<br />
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guaranteed, including Australia, Phuket<br />
and Bali. Book your honeymoon online<br />
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Fly with Jetstar’s StarClass to get the<br />
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Qualia<br />
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Queensland,<br />
tel: +61 (2) 9433 0444<br />
Hayman Island<br />
Great Barrier Reef,<br />
Queensland,<br />
tel: +61 (7) 4940 1234<br />
InterContinental<br />
Bali Resort<br />
45 Jln Uluwatu,<br />
Jimbaran, Indonesia,<br />
tel: +62 (361) 701 888<br />
Cradle Mountain Lodge<br />
4038 Cradle Mountain<br />
Rd, Cradle Mountain,<br />
Tasmania,<br />
tel: +61 (3) 6492 2103<br />
Daintree Secrets<br />
Stonewood Rd, Daintree,<br />
Queensland,<br />
tel: +61 (0) 412 409 277<br />
Lake House<br />
King St, Daylesford,<br />
Victoria,<br />
tel: +61 (3) 5348 3329<br />
Delamore Lodge<br />
83 Delamore Drv,<br />
Waiheke Island,<br />
New Zealand,<br />
tel: +64 (9) 372 7372<br />
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SUDOKU<br />
Sudoku.<br />
The objective of Sudoku is to fi ll in the missing<br />
squares so that each row, column and 3x3 box<br />
contains the numbers 1 through to 9. To get<br />
you started, here are a few tactics...<br />
Scan each horizontal and vertical band<br />
consisting of three 3x3 boxes. It’s often<br />
easiest to start in a spot with the most<br />
numbers already given. If you can fi nd the<br />
same number in two rows, you know that<br />
number must be in the third (the same goes<br />
SUDOKU EASY SUDOKU MODERATE<br />
8<br />
7 9 8<br />
6 9 5 7<br />
2 1 6<br />
4 2 3<br />
7 1 6 2<br />
7 4 3 6 2<br />
2 4 5<br />
1 3 7 6<br />
68 NOVEMBER <strong>2009</strong><br />
Grab a pencil, put on your thinking<br />
cap and join the craze!<br />
for columns). Now see which intersecting<br />
rows and columns can be eliminated because<br />
they also contain that number. (This method<br />
is called slicing and dicing.)<br />
Some Sudoku fans like to pencil in possible<br />
answers in the corners of individual squares.<br />
Once you have a few numbers fi lled in, you<br />
may also fi nd it handy to jot down a list of<br />
missing numbers for each row, column and<br />
box. Good luck! See page 71 for answers.<br />
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4 3 6 9<br />
2 8 5 4<br />
7 9<br />
5 8 2 1<br />
2 6 9 8<br />
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1. Which Aussie pop-star just released<br />
the No. 1 song “Like It Like That”?<br />
2. What do the initials OPEC stand for?<br />
3. What is the most common eye colour<br />
in humans?<br />
4. Who is the latest actor to play Insp.<br />
Jacques Clouseau on the big screen?<br />
5. In which year did golfer Geoff Ogilvy<br />
win the US Open?<br />
6. Where in the human body would you fi nd<br />
a diastema?<br />
7. Flying Jetstar, where in New Zealand<br />
would you be visiting if you fl ew into<br />
“The Windy City”?<br />
8. Which island off the coast of Queensland<br />
is the world’s largest sand island?<br />
9. Who replaced controversial radio<br />
star Kyle Sandilands as a judge on<br />
Australian Idol?<br />
10. Which planet has the moons Callisto,<br />
Europa, Ganymede and Io?<br />
11. When It All Comes Down is the second<br />
album from which Australian country<br />
music star?<br />
12. What is the main ingredient in the North<br />
African condiment harissa?<br />
13. What is the name of the pop band<br />
fronted by the Origliasso sisters?<br />
14. Diamonds are formed from which<br />
chemical element?<br />
15. What is Australia’s only native,<br />
commercially harvested food crop?<br />
16. Silverbacks and blackbacks are the males<br />
of which large primate?<br />
17. What is the name of author Dick King-<br />
Smith’s famous porcine character?<br />
18. Who is the Federal Member for the<br />
Wentworth electorate in Sydney?<br />
19. Which actor provides the voice for<br />
Ebenezer Scrooge in Disney’s new<br />
animated version of Charles Dickens’<br />
A Christmas Carol?<br />
20. Who is the celebrity mother of two-monthold<br />
Sparrow James Midnight Madden?<br />
21. Flying Jetstar, where would you be<br />
visiting if you crossed the Rainbow<br />
Bridge to visit the popular tourist<br />
destination Odaiba island?<br />
22. In recent years, which sport has been<br />
rocked by the introduction of the<br />
controversial LZR Racer?<br />
-question<br />
quiz.<br />
23. What is a sphygmomanometer used<br />
to record?<br />
24. Which famous residence has the address<br />
5 Adelaide Avenue, Deakin, Canberra?<br />
25. Stephenie Meyer is the author of<br />
which smash-hit series of teen novels?<br />
26. Which famous Australian beauty is behind<br />
the Cozi swimwear brand?<br />
27. What nationality is tennis player Juan<br />
Martín del Potro?<br />
28. Which famous wine region lies between<br />
Cape Naturaliste and Cape Leeuwin<br />
in Western Australia?<br />
29. Which First Fleeter is considered to<br />
be the fi rst commercial brewer of beer<br />
in Australia?<br />
30. The Rhythm and The Blues is the new<br />
hit album from which Aussie rocker?<br />
31. Where in Australia is the sports<br />
ground Bellerive Oval?<br />
32. Which Beatles studio album was the last<br />
to be released, if not recorded?<br />
33. Which animal fathers a liger?<br />
34. What is the more common name for<br />
a funambulist?<br />
35. Which common food additive is<br />
represented by the code number 621?<br />
36. A Serious Man is the latest black comedy<br />
from which two fi lm-making brothers?<br />
37. Which waxy substance is extracted<br />
from sheep wool?<br />
38. Which TV show is loosely based on Mark<br />
Wahlberg’s experiences as an aspiring<br />
young actor?<br />
39. What is Eugene Cernan’s claim<br />
to fame?<br />
40. What is usually stored in a humidor?<br />
BRAIN TEASERS<br />
TRIVIA QUIZ<br />
NOVEMBER <strong>2009</strong> 69
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Dress by Country Road
ARROW CROSSWORD<br />
Tori __,<br />
US singer/<br />
songwriter<br />
__ Kerr,<br />
top Aussie<br />
model<br />
Reflective<br />
poems<br />
Words<br />
spoken in an<br />
undertone<br />
Adventuress<br />
who exploits<br />
men<br />
Highest<br />
male voice<br />
Sickens<br />
Regional turn<br />
of phrase<br />
Armatures<br />
Most<br />
innocent<br />
__ Centre,<br />
Australia’s<br />
arid heart<br />
Machine for<br />
turning wood<br />
or metal<br />
Inanimate<br />
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2 6 9 4 8 5 7 1 3<br />
3 8 5 9 1 7 4 2 6<br />
4 7 1 3 2 6 8 9 5<br />
6 1 2 7 9 8 5 3 4<br />
7 4 3 5 6 1 2 8 9<br />
5 9 8 2 4 3 1 6 7<br />
1 2 7 6 5 9 3 4 8<br />
9 3 4 8 7 2 6 5 1<br />
8 5 6 1 3 4 9 7 2<br />
21. Japan 22. Swimming<br />
23. Blood pressure 24. The<br />
PM’s residence, The Lodge<br />
25. Twilight 26. Jennifer<br />
Hawkins 27. Argentine<br />
28. Margaret River<br />
29. James Squire 30. Jimmy<br />
Barnes 31. Hobart, Tasmania<br />
32. Let It Be 33. Lion<br />
34. Tightrope walker<br />
35. Monosodium glutamate<br />
36. Ethan and Joel Coen<br />
37. Lanolin 38. Entourage<br />
39. Last man to walk on the<br />
moon 40. Cigars<br />
Sudoku Moderate<br />
Artist’s<br />
trestle<br />
Gone bad<br />
Holy table<br />
Dimwit<br />
Small<br />
number<br />
1. Guy Sebastian<br />
2. Organization of the<br />
Petroleum Exporting<br />
Countries 3. Brown 4. Steve<br />
Martin 5. 2006 6. The mouth<br />
(it’s a gap between teeth)<br />
7. Wellington 8. Fraser Island<br />
9. Jay Dee Springbett<br />
10. Jupiter 11. Amber<br />
Lawrence 12. Chilli peppers<br />
13. The Veronicas 14. Carbon<br />
15. Macadamia nuts<br />
16. Gorilla 17. Babe<br />
18. Malcolm Turnbull 19. Jim<br />
Carrey 20. Nicole Richie<br />
Trivia Answers<br />
Deer’s<br />
antlers<br />
UK military<br />
flying service<br />
(inits)<br />
Charge for<br />
work done<br />
Part of a<br />
tennis match<br />
BRAIN TEASERS<br />
CROSSWORD & ANSWERS<br />
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1 2 7 6 9 4 3 8 5<br />
6 9 8 5 3 7 4 1 2<br />
8 3 2 7 4 5 1 9 6<br />
4 5 6 2 1 9 8 3 7<br />
9 7 1 8 6 3 2 5 4<br />
7 8 4 3 5 6 9 2 1<br />
2 6 9 4 8 1 5 7 3<br />
5 1 3 9 7 2 6 4 8<br />
Sudoku Easy<br />
A E R<br />
M I RANDA<br />
ODES OF F<br />
A S I D E L E<br />
O L A T H E<br />
VAMP L O<br />
I R O T O R S<br />
ALTO ANNE<br />
S P U R E S T<br />
Arrow Crossword<br />
ANSWERS<br />
JAPANESE<br />
TOILET SEAT<br />
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AUSTRALIA ZOO<br />
Come to<br />
the Party.<br />
Join Bindi as she celebrates her brother<br />
Robert’s 6th birthday!<br />
Name the animals and circle which<br />
one is the dinosaur:<br />
A B<br />
C D<br />
*All kids under 14 years old must be accompanied by a paying adult.<br />
72 NOVEMBER <strong>2009</strong><br />
CHECK THIS OUT!<br />
We’re celebrating Robert<br />
Irwin’s 6th birthday by<br />
inviting all kids to the Zoo<br />
for FREE* on 1 December!<br />
It’s going to be dino-tastic!<br />
Wooo-hoo!<br />
ANSWERS: A - Asian Otter B - Komodo Dragon C - Rhinoceros D - Tyrannosaurus Rex is the dinosaur<br />
Crikey!<br />
Did you know...<br />
That crocodiles are the<br />
oldest living dinosaurs?<br />
They have been around for<br />
65 million years and the biggest<br />
one on record was 22 feet!
SAFETY<br />
Noble Boats International are built to withstand the harshest of<br />
environments. This does not mean we all want to go out when it’s blowing<br />
30 knots and breaking waves, but we do want to be able to get home safely<br />
if we are caught in this situation.<br />
Our boats are built with 5mm plate bottoms (4mm on the 5-5.8 metres)<br />
with 6mm girders no more than 300mm apart which makes them very<br />
strong in comparison to any other construction.<br />
QUALITY/DESIGN<br />
All designs are done by naval<br />
architect on CAD software and<br />
computer cut.<br />
Built to Australian standards.<br />
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the sand of the nearby northern beaches or shop till you drop at Smithfield Shopping Centre. We<br />
will happily arrange your tour bookings and pick ups, and will do our best to help you enjoy your stay.<br />
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starkids<br />
On<br />
30 September, an earthquake<br />
measuring 7.6 magnitude struck<br />
off the coast of Padang, Sumatra, causing<br />
immense destruction and adding to the list<br />
of natural disasters that have rocked the Asia<br />
Pacifi c region recently.<br />
The devastation and power of an<br />
earthquake is impossible to comprehend<br />
without fi rst-hand experience. For the<br />
children affected by this event, it is no doubt<br />
the most frightening time of their lives. World<br />
Vision’s emergency response team is working<br />
to help children recover in Padang.<br />
An integral part of World Vision’s<br />
emergency relief work is setting up Child<br />
Friendly Spaces (CFS). Offering refuge to<br />
children — giving them a place where they are<br />
safe and able to play — is essential for their<br />
mental and physical wellbeing.<br />
A CFS in Padang has been set up in one of<br />
the worst hit areas, where countless houses<br />
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and four schools were damaged beyond<br />
repair. Here, hundreds of children in rural<br />
areas literally have nowhere to go. Many of<br />
these children lost both their school and<br />
house, and are still hesitant to re-enter any<br />
building for fear of further collapses.<br />
The CFS is essentially a day-care centre<br />
inside a well-stocked tent. Usually in an<br />
emergency, pre-stocked tents and supplies<br />
are sent from World Vision warehouses<br />
around the world to the affected zones, and<br />
CFS are set up as soon as possible after a<br />
disaster hits. However, supply lines have been<br />
problematic in Sumatra and staff in Padang<br />
have had to be creative. It’s wedding season<br />
in Indonesia, and hundreds of couples use<br />
this month before the rainy season to host<br />
elaborate weddings in large tents. World<br />
Vision Indonesia has procured one of these<br />
wedding tents and, using locally sourced<br />
material, set up the fi rst of 13 planned CFS,<br />
When disaster strikes, a quick<br />
response that answers physical<br />
and mental needs is essential<br />
WORDS CHRIS OLVER<br />
World Vision’s Alfi ani Wulundari makes<br />
paper planes for the Indonesian children<br />
at the Padang Child Friendly Space<br />
just days after the earthquakes.<br />
When you see a CFS, it’s immediately<br />
apparent just how necessary this initiative is.<br />
The large wedding tent is erected between<br />
two demolished school buildings. The kids<br />
are colouring in, playing tag, making paper<br />
aeroplanes and singing songs. Trained<br />
childcare workers, community volunteers<br />
and child protection offi cers monitor the play,<br />
ensuring that this remains a place where<br />
children can experience a bit of normalcy<br />
after their traumatic experiences.<br />
All the kids here tell stories of loss and grief,<br />
but also of hopefulness. They wish more than<br />
anything else that their school buildings can<br />
be rebuilt. They’re overjoyed that this brightly<br />
coloured tent has arrived, giving them a place<br />
to play, learn and socialise.<br />
These children have witnessed the<br />
obliteration of hundreds of buildings<br />
and suffered personal grief beyond
comprehension and yet here they are smiling,<br />
returning to play.<br />
The impact of psycho-social interventions<br />
like CFS cannot be underestimated. Yes, it<br />
provides food, shelter and essential physical<br />
items, but it also actively prioritises the<br />
psychological needs of young children. With<br />
something as simple as a wedding tent and<br />
some paper aeroplanes, steps have been<br />
taken in Padang to help restore some of what<br />
has been taken away so suddenly.<br />
As part of a 90-day emergency response<br />
plan, World Vision will open 13 Child Friendly<br />
Spaces. World Vision’s Emergency and<br />
Preparedness Fund and the Indonesia<br />
Earthquake Appeal are also delivering<br />
blankets and tarpaulins, ensuring no more<br />
lives are lost as homeless families brave the<br />
monsoon season’s torrential rain.<br />
Reporter Chris<br />
at Ambacang<br />
Hotel Padang<br />
Children play at the Child<br />
Friendly Space set up in<br />
Padang, Indonesia<br />
YOU CAN HELP<br />
Vulnerable children need our help.<br />
The StarKids partnership between<br />
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You can support StarKids by<br />
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Let your small change<br />
create change!<br />
ABOUT STARKIDS<br />
Tim Costello, CEO World Vision<br />
How did StarKids come about?<br />
StarKids is a humanitarian partnership<br />
between World Vision Australia and Jetstar.<br />
Th e partnership supports community-based<br />
development projects in Australia and across<br />
Asia and aims to improve the lives of families<br />
living in poverty. It’s about giving children a<br />
brighter future.<br />
What does StarKids aim to achieve?<br />
StarKids aims to raise AU$3 million<br />
in three years. Th e support given to<br />
World Vision through StarKids will<br />
go towards transforming the lives of<br />
vulnerable children.<br />
How can Jetstar passengers help?<br />
Your donations would be most welcome!<br />
Please place your small change (all currencies)<br />
in the StarKids envelope located in your seat<br />
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passengers will be given to World Vision<br />
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projects in Australia and Asia. You can also<br />
donate online at www.jetstar.com/starkids<br />
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Visit www.worldvision.com.au<br />
or www.jetstar.com/starkids for<br />
more information.<br />
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your wellbeing onboard<br />
SAFETY, SECURITY & COMFORT<br />
Jetstar is a wholly owned subsidiary of Qantas Airways Limited and places the<br />
same emphasis on achieving standards of excellence in safety and security.<br />
QANTAS GROUP SECURITY<br />
The risk-management challenges facing<br />
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all contribute to creating an effective security<br />
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Many of our security measures are not<br />
apparent to the public. However, during<br />
check-in and boarding you may have noticed<br />
security measures such as:<br />
• Random explosive trace detection of<br />
passengers and their carry-on luggage.<br />
• Laptops and aerosols being subjected to<br />
enhanced inspection at screening points.<br />
• Increased vigilance at passenger screening<br />
points and increased guarding of our<br />
aircraft and terminals.<br />
Further measures apply to flights to the<br />
United States:<br />
• Additional carry-on baggage searches just<br />
prior to boarding.<br />
• Random baggage searches at check-in<br />
and boarding.<br />
• Passengers selected at random for patdown<br />
inspections, including the removal and<br />
checking of shoes.<br />
CARRY-ON BAGGAGE<br />
Rules are needed to protect you from the<br />
threat of liquid explosives. Liquids, aerosols<br />
or gels in your carry-on baggage must be 100<br />
millilitres/grams or less and must be sealed<br />
in a transparent independently resealable,<br />
one-litre plastic bag. You are only allowed<br />
one plastic bag. You may still carry on board<br />
prescription medicines. Baby products and<br />
non-prescription medicines that you need for<br />
the flight are also allowed. Proof of need may<br />
be required. Please Note: These restrictions do<br />
not apply to checked-in baggage.<br />
SAFETY FIRST<br />
Seatbelts must be fastened during take-off,<br />
landing and when you are seated in case your<br />
aircraft encounters turbulence. Luggage<br />
must be stored in the overhead locker or<br />
under the seat in front of you. The back of<br />
your seat must be upright and the tray table<br />
fastened when the aircraft is taking off and<br />
landing. Please remain seated after landing<br />
until you are invited to leave the aircraft.<br />
Sleeping on the aircraft floor is not permitted.<br />
Please read the safety instruction card in<br />
your seat pocket, noting emergency exits<br />
and location of life jackets. Please watch<br />
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the safety demonstration prior to take-off.<br />
In an emergency, the crew will give specific<br />
instructions. They may speak assertively and<br />
will require your cooperation.<br />
SMOKING<br />
Government regulations prohibit smoking on<br />
all flights operated by Australian-registered<br />
aircraft. There are smoke detectors in all<br />
toilets and penalties for regulation breaches.<br />
THE IMPORTANCE OF BLOOD<br />
CIRCULATION AND MUSCLE<br />
RELAXATION DURING FLIGHTS<br />
If you have concerns about your health and<br />
flying, Jetstar recommends you seek<br />
medical advice before flying. When you’re<br />
sitting upright and are inactive for a long<br />
period, several things can happen:<br />
• The central blood vessels in your legs can<br />
be compressed, making it harder for the<br />
blood to get back to your heart.<br />
• Muscles can become tense, resulting<br />
in backaches and a feeling of excessive<br />
fatigue during and even after the flight.<br />
• The normal body mechanism for returning<br />
fluid to the heart can be inhibited and<br />
gravity can cause fluid to collect in your feet,<br />
resulting in swollen feet after a long flight.<br />
• Some studies have concluded that<br />
prolonged immobility may be a risk factor<br />
in the formation of blood clots in the legs<br />
– Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT). Particular<br />
medical conditions may increase the risk<br />
of formation of blood clots if associated<br />
with prolonged immobility. Medical<br />
research indicates that factors which may<br />
give you an increased risk of DVT include:<br />
• Personal or family history of DVT<br />
• Recent surgery or injury, especially to the<br />
lower limbs or abdomen<br />
• Blood disorders leading to increased<br />
clotting tendency<br />
• If you are older than 40<br />
• Oestrogen hormone therapy, including<br />
oral contraceptives<br />
• Pregnancy<br />
• Tobacco smoking<br />
• Former or current malignant disease<br />
• Obesity<br />
• Dehydration<br />
• Heart problems<br />
• Varicose veins<br />
Compression stockings can assist in<br />
preventing swelling of the ankles and feet<br />
and they may improve the blood return<br />
to the body from the lower legs. These<br />
stockings can be purchased from medical<br />
and surgical supply companies and<br />
need to be individually fitted to your leg<br />
measurements. During your flight, move<br />
your legs and feet three or four minutes per<br />
hour while seated and move about the cabin<br />
occasionally.<br />
CABIN PRESSURE<br />
If you are suffering nasal congestion, an ear<br />
infection or allergies, Jetstar recommends<br />
seeking medical advice before flying.<br />
A cold, flu or hay fever can impair your<br />
sinuses. Swollen membranes in your nose<br />
could block the Eustachian tubes between<br />
your nasal passages and your middle ear<br />
chamber. This can cause discomfort during<br />
changes in cabin pressure, particularly<br />
during the aircraft’s descent.<br />
• To “clear” your ears, try swallowing and/or<br />
yawning. This helps open your Eustachian<br />
tubes, equalising the pressure between<br />
your middle ear chamber and your throat.<br />
• When you are flying with an infant, give<br />
them a dummy or feed them during the<br />
aircraft’s descent. Sucking and swallowing<br />
will help the infant equalise the pressure in<br />
their ears.<br />
CABIN HUMIDITY / DEHYDRATION<br />
Humidity levels of less than 25% are<br />
common in the aircraft cabin. This is due<br />
to the low humidity levels of the outside<br />
air supplied to the cabin. Low humidity can<br />
cause drying of the nose, throat and eyes<br />
and it can irritate wearers of contact lenses.<br />
We recommend that you:<br />
• Drink water frequently during flight.<br />
• Drink coffee, tea and alcohol only in<br />
moderation – these drinks act as diuretics,<br />
increasing dehydration.<br />
• Remove contact lenses and wear glasses if<br />
your eyes are irritated.<br />
• Use a skin moisturiser to refresh the skin.<br />
MOTION SICKNESS<br />
This ailment is caused by a conflict between<br />
the body’s senses of vision and equilibrium.<br />
Air turbulence increases its likelihood<br />
because it can cause movement of fluid in<br />
the vestibular apparatus of the inner ear.<br />
If you have good visual cues (keeping your<br />
eyes fixed on a non-moving object), motion<br />
sickness is less likely to occur.<br />
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Jetstar has a strict policy on denying<br />
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comments or behaviour. Jetstar does not<br />
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“jokes”. All matters are referred to relevant<br />
authorities for prosecution. Jetstar will seek<br />
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capital Jakarta is the 11th<br />
biggest city in the world with a<br />
bustle to match.<br />
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FROM THE AIRPORT<br />
Bali CBD 15km from Denpasar’s<br />
Ngurah Rai Airport<br />
Travel time Kuta Beach is around<br />
10 mins by car<br />
Taxi Approx IDR30,000 (AU$3.50)<br />
Shuttle Bus Most hotels offer<br />
complimentary pick-up<br />
FROM THE AIRPORT<br />
Jakarta CBD 20km<br />
from Soekarno–Hatta<br />
International Airport<br />
Travel time Around 30 mins by car<br />
Taxi Approx IDR120,000 (AU$14)<br />
DAMRI Bus IDR15,000 (AU$1.75)<br />
to any city bus station<br />
ON THE GO<br />
1. Bali and Jakarta Taxis<br />
Get your hotel to order one for you<br />
and for the return trip too.<br />
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Fashion designer<br />
BALI<br />
Must buy (money no object!):<br />
Paintings and sculptures by<br />
local artists. Make sure you<br />
visit Sukawati Market and<br />
the streets in Ubud, where<br />
you’ll fi nd endless choices of<br />
artworks in different styles<br />
and materials.<br />
Must-buy gifts: Hand-made<br />
bags and souvenirs from Unagi<br />
in Marlboro Road towards<br />
Seminyak. Unagi has the most<br />
extensive range of souvenirs<br />
such as decorative statues,<br />
wooden chairs, hand-made<br />
bags, thongs, incense, candles,<br />
paintings, and more.<br />
Survival tip for tourists:<br />
Watch out for those monkeys<br />
at Uluwatu temple. They can<br />
steal your camera or your<br />
wallet, and for the ladies,<br />
please tie your hair up, as these<br />
monkeys love pulling human<br />
hair aggressively!<br />
Unusual fact: The people<br />
in Bali only have one of four<br />
names: Wayan, Made, Nyoman,<br />
and Ketut. If they’ve got a fi fth<br />
child, it starts all over again<br />
with Wayan.<br />
Local delicacy: Rujak kuah<br />
pindang (sliced sour mango,<br />
papaya, pineapple, cucumber<br />
in blended chilli, fi sh stock<br />
and belachan), tipat cantok<br />
(sliced rice cake and sprouts<br />
with blended chilli and peanut<br />
sauce; both are available at<br />
Warung Made), and babi guling<br />
(roast baby pig).<br />
BANGKOK &<br />
PHUKET<br />
THAILAND<br />
Thailand is a fascinating<br />
country with beautiful<br />
landscapes and spectacular<br />
monuments. Bangkok bustles<br />
with energy while Phuket is a<br />
beach-lover’s paradise.<br />
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FROM THE AIRPORT<br />
Bangkok CBD 30km from<br />
Suvarnabhumi International Airport<br />
Travel time Bangkok CBD is around<br />
40 mins by car<br />
Taxi Approx THB300 (AU$10.20)<br />
Airport Express THB150 (AU$5.10)<br />
and taking around 60 mins<br />
FROM THE AIRPORT<br />
Patong Beach 32 km from Phuket<br />
International Airport<br />
Travel time Patong Beach is<br />
around 45 mins by car<br />
Taxi Approx THB400 (AU$13.60)<br />
Shuttle Bus Every 30 mins at<br />
THB52 (AU$1.80); takes 60mins<br />
ON THE GO<br />
1. BTS Skytrains Will get you to all<br />
the major points in Bangkok.<br />
2. Tuk Tuk For short distances only.<br />
Bangkok’s fl oating market<br />
SIMON<br />
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Co-designer for Katzi<br />
BANGKOK<br />
Survival tip for tourists:<br />
Smile and take your<br />
shoes off when entering<br />
someone’s house.<br />
Unusual fact: It’s rude to<br />
show someone the palm of<br />
your hand.<br />
Local delicacy: The durian<br />
— it’s not for the faint-hearted.<br />
Local recreational activity<br />
to watch: Thai kickboxing<br />
is a must if you don’t mind<br />
contact sports.<br />
Best place to hang out<br />
with the locals: The<br />
weekend markets are always<br />
buzzing with locals.<br />
Best idea for a family outing:<br />
Take a day trip up to the bridge<br />
on the River Kwai. It’s nice to<br />
get out of the city.<br />
For history: Visit the Temple<br />
of the Golden Buddha in<br />
the old city.<br />
Most romantic spot: Sunset<br />
at The Mandarin Oriental<br />
overlooking Chao Phraya River.<br />
You can get there by a free<br />
river taxi.<br />
Most unusual thing to do:<br />
Eat a fried cockroach at<br />
the markets.<br />
I love Bangkok because: It’s<br />
vibrant, full of culture and has<br />
some amazing food. There’s<br />
never a dull day in Bangkok<br />
whether you’re shopping,<br />
relaxing, sightseeing or kicking<br />
back and getting a massage.
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Restored tram in<br />
Cathedral Square<br />
CHRISTCHURCH<br />
& AUCKLAND<br />
NEW ZEALAND<br />
Christchurch is billed as New<br />
Zealand’s “most English” city,<br />
with fabulous gardens while<br />
harbourside Auckland is the<br />
most cosmopolitan with the<br />
largest Polynesian population.<br />
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FROM THE AIRPORT<br />
Christchurch CBD 11km from<br />
Christchurch International Airport<br />
Travel time CBD is around<br />
20 mins by car<br />
Taxi Approx NZ$32 (AU$25.80)<br />
Shuttle bus NZ$12 (AU$9.70),<br />
taking 20–30 mins<br />
FROM THE AIRPORT<br />
Auckland CBD 20km from<br />
Auckland International Airport<br />
Travel time CBD is around<br />
45 mins by car<br />
Taxi From NZ$60 (AU$48.50)<br />
Shuttle bus NZ$30 (AU$24.20),<br />
taking 45–60 mins<br />
ON THE GO<br />
1. The Shuttle Free seven-day<br />
central Christchurch bus.<br />
2. Jafa Cabs A bicycle with bench<br />
seats for two; free in the Auckland<br />
central business district.<br />
NIQ JAMES<br />
Director, Niq James<br />
Hairdressing<br />
CHRISTCHURCH<br />
Best breakfast: Drexels on<br />
Hereford Street. It specialises<br />
in American-style breakfasts<br />
and is great value for money.<br />
Must buy (money<br />
no object!): GHD hair<br />
straighteners. I might be<br />
biased, but I think they’re a<br />
must-have for anyone who<br />
is serious about getting the<br />
best look from their hair....<br />
and I just happen to be<br />
a stockist.<br />
Must-eat: Dimitri’s souvlaki.<br />
Their shop is on Colombo<br />
Street and they also have a<br />
stand at the Arts Centre on<br />
Saturdays and Sundays.<br />
For history: Visit the French<br />
settlement of Akaroa, 45<br />
minutes from Christchurch.<br />
It’s one of the sites for the<br />
signing of the treaty of<br />
Waitangi. It’s got a great feel<br />
and is a relaxing getaway.<br />
Favourite local festival:<br />
New Zealand Cup and Show<br />
Week from 7–14 November.<br />
I enjoy the Fashions In The Field<br />
at the Riccarton Park races.<br />
There are also other fashion<br />
events on during the week<br />
such as Best Dressed at the<br />
Races at Addington Raceway<br />
and Style Christchurch at<br />
Isaac Theatre Royal.<br />
I love Christchurch<br />
because: It’s a city that’s<br />
easy to get around, it’s close<br />
to most places, has great<br />
shopping and local<br />
attractions, and the cost of<br />
living is reasonable.<br />
HO CHI<br />
MINH CITY<br />
VIETNAM<br />
The largest city in Vietnam,<br />
this is the country’s<br />
economic capital and cultural<br />
trendsetter with a population<br />
of high-energy people who<br />
effortlessly meld tradition with<br />
the contemporary.<br />
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FROM THE AIRPORT<br />
CBD 7km from Tan Son Nhat<br />
International Airport<br />
Travel time CBD is around<br />
20mins by car<br />
Taxi A taxi voucher from Visitor<br />
Information for US$12 (AU$18.30)<br />
Shuttle Bus Most hotels offer<br />
complimentary pick-up<br />
ON THE GO<br />
1. Taxi Ask the drivers to turn<br />
the meters on; there are<br />
taxi-motorbikes as well.<br />
2. Walking The best way to dash<br />
up alleys and down one-way streets<br />
but we only recommend this for<br />
District One.<br />
3. Cyclos A one-person seat<br />
powered by a cyclist; you’ll be<br />
nose-level with the exhaust fumes<br />
and action.<br />
Tien Hau temple in<br />
Ho Chi Minh City’s<br />
Chinatown<br />
RAELENE LEHN<br />
Senior brand<br />
manager, Bod and<br />
Natural Alternative<br />
Great place for dinner: Pho<br />
Bo in Vien Quoc Ky in District<br />
1 offers great pho (soup) in<br />
different varieties. A favourite of<br />
mine is the sate version of pho.<br />
Best night out: Le Pub in<br />
Pham Ngu Lao is a great place<br />
with Western-strength drinks.<br />
Get there early, about 6pm, or<br />
it’s too packed to fi nd a place to<br />
sit down.<br />
Best buy for under AU$50:<br />
A tailor-made silk shirt for<br />
AU$40. Take your favourite<br />
shirt, pants or dresses and get<br />
them copied/tailor made for<br />
AU$25–$50. Allow two days,<br />
but allow fi ve days for a suit.<br />
Must-buy gift: Vietnamese<br />
coffee. Some of the best<br />
coffee in the world comes<br />
from this country.<br />
Insider’s tip: When shopping,<br />
if something doesn’t display a<br />
price tag, you can barter down<br />
to at least two-thirds of the<br />
stated price.<br />
Survival tip for tourists: Walk<br />
slowly but confi dently when<br />
crossing roads and the bike<br />
riders will go around you.<br />
Best place to hang out with<br />
the locals: On the road. Hire<br />
yourself a motorbike and get<br />
on the road with the locals. Just<br />
watch your side mirrors!<br />
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international adventures<br />
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HONOLULU<br />
HAWAII<br />
Honolulu, on the island of<br />
Oahu, is one of the world’s<br />
most exotic capital cities.<br />
Encapsulating a modern<br />
vitality with the delightful<br />
charm of old Hawaiiana, it<br />
reverberates with Aloha, the<br />
spirit of welcome.<br />
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FROM THE AIRPORT<br />
CBD 14km from Honolulu<br />
International Airport<br />
Travel time CBD is around<br />
15 mins by car<br />
Taxi Approx US$40 (AU$60.80)<br />
VIP Stretch Limo From US$70<br />
(AU$106.40) for two people<br />
Airport shuttle US$9 (AU$13.70)<br />
and taking around 20 mins<br />
Bus Every 30 mins at US$2<br />
(AU$3.05) for bus number 19 and<br />
taking around 1hr 10 mins<br />
ON THE GO<br />
1. Buses Hotel shuttle buses, public<br />
buses and quaint open-air trolley<br />
buses — Oahu has an excellent<br />
bus network. For a fl at fee of US$2<br />
(AU$3.05) you can travel any<br />
distance, including bus changes, to<br />
all attractions.<br />
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McNeil Wilson<br />
Communications<br />
Best idea for a family outing:<br />
A gourmet picnic at the beach<br />
anywhere on Oahu’s North<br />
Shore or Ala Moana Beach Park<br />
is perfect.<br />
For history: The newly<br />
renovated Hawaiian Hall,<br />
home of Bishop Museum’s<br />
most sacred artifacts, some<br />
of which the public has never<br />
seen before. It was recently<br />
reopened after a US$21<br />
million renovation.<br />
Must buy (money no object!):<br />
An heirloom Hawaiian bracelet<br />
with your Hawaiian name<br />
engraved on it so you can pass<br />
it on to your child when they<br />
grow older. Many women in<br />
Hawaii have several bracelets<br />
— one for each child.<br />
Must-buy gift: Ohia Ai<br />
Mountain Apple body lotion<br />
from Ihilani Spa. Made locally,<br />
the lotion smells heavenly.<br />
When you return home and put<br />
on this fragrant lotion, you’ll<br />
trigger Hawaiian memories.<br />
Must-eat: A Hawaiian “plate<br />
lunch” served with laulau<br />
(chicken and pork wrapped<br />
with Hawaiian luau leaves,<br />
chicken and pork), poi, lomi<br />
lomi salmon and haupia<br />
(coconut pudding) dessert.<br />
Local delicacies: Hawaiian<br />
ahi limu poke (raw tuna and<br />
seaweed), which you can fi nd<br />
most anywhere, including the<br />
food markets, or a Hawaiian<br />
shaved ice cone in rainbow or<br />
vanilla fl avour.<br />
OSAKA & TOKYO<br />
JAPAN<br />
Osaka is home to modern<br />
architectural wonders and a<br />
prolifi c creative scene.<br />
Tokyo is Japan’s largest city<br />
and capital with many intimate<br />
and fascinating suburbs.<br />
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FROM THE AIRPORT<br />
Osaka CBD 38km from Kansai<br />
International Airport<br />
Travel time 50 mins by car<br />
Taxi Approx ¥17,000 (AU$213.65)<br />
Limousine bus Every 45 mins at<br />
¥880 (AU$11.10), takes 50 mins<br />
Nankai Express Train Every<br />
30 mins from ¥1,390 (AU$17.50),<br />
takes 30 mins<br />
FROM THE AIRPORT<br />
Tokyo CBD 66km from Narita Airport<br />
Travel time 60–90 min by car<br />
Taxi Approx ¥20,000 (AU$251.40)<br />
Limousine Bus ¥3,000 (AU$37.70),<br />
takes 60–90 mins<br />
JR Narita Express Every 30–60 mins<br />
at ¥3,000 (AU$37.70), takes 60 mins<br />
ON THE GO<br />
1. The subway Easy to use,<br />
effi cient and takes you everywhere<br />
you want to go.<br />
2. Bicycle Many Kansai hotels offer<br />
bicycle hire due to the easy terrain.<br />
Traditional winter kimono<br />
PIETER DE WEERD<br />
General manager,<br />
Mercure Hotel<br />
Ginza Tokyo<br />
TOKYO<br />
Best night out: Go to the<br />
Roppongi area and fi nd lots<br />
of bars and local restaurants<br />
open all night and enjoy a mix<br />
of international ambience and<br />
Japanese way of life.<br />
Local delicacy: Try the yakitori<br />
and if you dare, go for the<br />
chicken skin skewer.<br />
Must eat: Taste the freshest<br />
sushi at 6am in the morning<br />
around the Tsukiji fi sh market.<br />
For history: A visit to the<br />
stunning Meiji Shrine,<br />
dedicated to the divine souls of<br />
Emperor Meiji and his consort,<br />
Empress Shoken, is a must.<br />
Local recreational activity to<br />
watch: Defi nitely the sumo with<br />
all its traditions, excited crowds<br />
and explosions of power.<br />
Best idea for a family outing:<br />
Visit the Disney Sea Resort<br />
in Tokyo — it’s just 20<br />
minutes from the main Tokyo<br />
train station.<br />
Survival tip: Refrain from<br />
talking by mobile on the train.<br />
Only 3G mobile works in Japan<br />
so rent one at the airport or the<br />
hotel, if you need.<br />
Unusual fact: According to<br />
demographic statistics, Japan’s<br />
population may drop by 40<br />
million people in the next<br />
40 years.<br />
Most romantic: Odaiba Tokyo<br />
Bay area for night scenes.<br />
I love Tokyo because: It’s<br />
probably the cleanest and<br />
safest among the world’s most<br />
prominent cities.
Kayaking in the Kallang Basin<br />
SINGAPORE<br />
An island nation with a multicultural<br />
society, Singapore is<br />
a sophisticated microcosm of<br />
Asia. This garden city buzzes 24<br />
hours a day with dining, nightlife<br />
and shopping options.<br />
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FROM THE AIRPORT<br />
CBD 20km<br />
Travel time 20–30 mins by car<br />
Taxi Approx S$20 (AU$16.25)<br />
with a surcharge of S$3–$5<br />
(AU$2.45–$4.10)<br />
Airport Shuttle Services Most<br />
hotels S$9 (AU$7.30) one way<br />
MRT train Every 10–15 mins from<br />
Terminal 2 and 3 from 5.30am–<br />
11.18pm, takes 27 mins to reach the<br />
city for S$1.70 (AU$1.40)<br />
ON THE GO<br />
1. The Hippo An open-top<br />
double-decker bus that allows you<br />
to hop on and off whenever you like.<br />
S$23 (AU$18.70) for a<br />
one-day pass.<br />
2. MRT Air-conditioned<br />
subway throughout the island.<br />
3. Trishaw A three-wheeled bicycle<br />
with carriage from the old days.<br />
A 45-min ride is S$25–45<br />
(AU$20.30–$36.60).<br />
4. Buses A user-friendly network<br />
with route maps at every bus-stop.<br />
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BIN KADER<br />
HUSSEIN<br />
Bell captain, Park<br />
Hotel Clarke Quay<br />
Great place for dinner:<br />
Robertson Quay has a great<br />
ambience with spectacular<br />
views of the Singapore River.<br />
It’s a well-known dining and<br />
entertainment hub that houses<br />
over 30 restaurants serving a<br />
wide range of cuisines.<br />
Best night out: Clarke Quay is<br />
for party-goers seeking a place<br />
to groove to the hottest sounds<br />
and hippest R&B music within<br />
the city area. It offers the best<br />
spots with a variety of clubs<br />
and bars.<br />
Best place to party with the<br />
gang: Café Del Mar on Sentosa<br />
Island. The outlet has its own<br />
private swimming pool and<br />
direct access to the popular<br />
Siloso Beach. In the evening,<br />
guests can enjoy sunset views<br />
as the scene transforms into a<br />
hip partying joint.<br />
Must-eat: An Indian dish<br />
called tulang at Jalan Sultan.<br />
It consists of a leg of mutton<br />
bone served with fragrant and<br />
spicy gravy. It’s best eaten with<br />
freshly toasted bread<br />
for dipping.<br />
Best idea for a family outing:<br />
Sentosa has many places of<br />
interest that cater to visitors of<br />
all ages. There’s the Songs of<br />
the Sea laser light performance<br />
and Fort Siloso for history buffs.<br />
You would need a full day.<br />
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ADELAIDE<br />
CBD 6km<br />
Travel time CBD is around<br />
15 mins by car<br />
Taxi Approx AU$18<br />
Skylink Bus Every 30 mins–1hr:<br />
AU$8.50 adult, AU$3.50 child,<br />
and taking around 35 mins<br />
Airport parking AU$4–$90<br />
(30 mins–72 hrs)<br />
AVALON<br />
Geelong CBD 20km<br />
Melbourne CBD 55km<br />
Travel time 15 mins (Geelong);<br />
40 mins (Melbourne) by car<br />
Taxi Approx AU$45 Geelong;<br />
approx AU$80 Melbourne<br />
Avalon Airport Shuttle Meets all<br />
fl ights. From AU$17 adult, AU$14<br />
child (Geelong); AU$20 adult,<br />
AU$10 child (Melbourne).<br />
Airport parking Short-term from<br />
AU$3; long-term from AU$20,<br />
additional days from AU$5<br />
BALLINA-BYRON<br />
CBD Byron Bay is 23km, Ballina<br />
is 5km<br />
Travel time Byron Bay is<br />
20 mins by car. Ballina is<br />
7 mins by car<br />
Taxi Approx AU$10–$15<br />
to Ballina, approx AU$65 to<br />
Byron Bay<br />
Scuba diver with potato cod,<br />
Great Barrier Reef<br />
upon your arrival<br />
Airlink Bus Meets most fl ights:<br />
AU$20 adult (AU$35 return),<br />
AU$12 children under 13<br />
years (one-way), and taking<br />
around 35 mins<br />
Airport parking AU$2-AU$8<br />
(1 hr–24 hrs)<br />
BRISBANE<br />
CBD 16km<br />
Travel time CBD is around<br />
25 mins by car<br />
Taxi Approx AU$30<br />
Bus Every 15–30 mins: AU$9<br />
adult, AU$6 child, under 4 years<br />
free and taking about 30 mins<br />
Train Every 20 mins to all<br />
downtown city stations: AU$12<br />
adult, AU$6 child and taking<br />
around 22 mins<br />
Airport parking AU$5–AU$30<br />
(30 mins–24 hrs)<br />
CAIRNS<br />
CBD 8km<br />
Travel time CBD is 10 mins by car<br />
Taxi Approx AU$15<br />
Australia Coach Shuttle Every<br />
hour: AU$10 adult, AU$15 couple,<br />
AU$5 child and taking around<br />
20 mins<br />
Airport parking AU$3–16<br />
(2–24 hrs)<br />
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ONLY SLEEP WITH<br />
THE BEST<br />
“WHERE QUALITY AND<br />
SERVICE COUNTS”<br />
METRO HOTEL &<br />
APARTMENTS GLADSTONE<br />
The hotel offers 4 star fully serviced<br />
one-bedroom apartments, most with<br />
superb views from private balconies. All<br />
with separate lounge and fully equipped<br />
kitchen and laundry facilities. Central<br />
CBD location. Restaurant and Bar<br />
facilities available.<br />
Phone 07 4972 4711<br />
Metro Hotel Ipswich International<br />
Located in the heart of Ipswich CBD overlooking one of Ipswich’s<br />
pristine parklands, the hotel boasts 97 rooms including spa suites<br />
as well as apartments, restaurant & bar, specializing in corporate<br />
functions and weddings catering for up to 450 delegates.<br />
Ipswich’s great outdoors offers golfing, bushwalking, kayaking,<br />
fishing, mountain biking, horse riding, hot air balloon rides and<br />
much more.<br />
Phone 07 3812 8077<br />
Metro Hotel Tower Mill<br />
on Wickham Terrace<br />
Comfortable, affordable Brisbane city<br />
centre hotel providing accommodation<br />
for both leisure and corporate guests<br />
alike. Restaurant and Bar facilities<br />
available.<br />
Enjoy the panoramic views of the<br />
city’s CBD and surrounding suburbs<br />
from your own private balcony!<br />
Phone 1800 806 553<br />
Metro Hotels is proud to be the oldest, 100%<br />
Australian owned & operated hotel chain<br />
www.metrohotels.com.au
upon your arrival<br />
DARWIN<br />
CBD 13km<br />
Travel time CBD is 15 mins<br />
by car<br />
Taxi Approx AU$22<br />
Darwin Airport Shuttle<br />
Meets all fl ights: AU$10 (adult)<br />
and taking around 20 mins<br />
Airport parking AU$3–12<br />
(up to 24 hrs); AU$10 (weekly)<br />
GOLD COAST<br />
Surfers Paradise 20km<br />
Travel time Surfers Paradise is<br />
around 30 mins by car<br />
Taxi Approx AU$40<br />
Con-X-ion Shuttle bus Booking<br />
required +61 (7) 5556 9888:<br />
AU$22 adult, AU$13 child (4–13<br />
years), children under 4 years<br />
travel free, and taking around<br />
45 mins<br />
Airport parking AU$3–AU$36<br />
(30 mins–24 hrs)<br />
Airport Lounge Check in for free<br />
movies, newspapers, snacks and<br />
drinks when you book and pay<br />
online at jetstar.com<br />
HAMILTON ISLAND<br />
Travel time from airport to<br />
accommodation is a few minutes<br />
Shuttle bus Complimentary for<br />
hotel guests<br />
HOBART<br />
CBD 17km<br />
Travel time CBD is around<br />
20 mins by car<br />
Taxi Approx AU$36–$42<br />
Airporter shuttle bus Meets all<br />
fl ights: AU$12 adult, AU$5.30<br />
child aged 4–15 years, children<br />
under 4 years free, and taking<br />
around 30 mins<br />
Airport parking AU$2–$13<br />
(24 hrs)<br />
LAUNCESTON<br />
CBD 16km<br />
Travel time CBD is around<br />
10 mins by car<br />
Taxi Approx AU$30<br />
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Airporter Shuttle bus Meets all<br />
fl ights: AU$14 adult, AU$5 child,<br />
children under 4 years free, and<br />
taking around 15 mins<br />
Airport parking AU$2–$15<br />
(25 mins–24 hrs)<br />
MACKAY<br />
CBD 6km<br />
Travel time CBD 15 mins by car<br />
Taxi Approx AU$18<br />
To Airlie Beach Take a taxi to<br />
the bus terminal in Wellington<br />
Street and then a bus service by<br />
Greyhound or Premier; approx<br />
AU$22 one way adult<br />
Airport parking AU$2–$20<br />
(24 hrs)<br />
MELBOURNE<br />
CBD 23km<br />
Travel time 35 mins by car<br />
Taxi Approx AU$55<br />
SkyBus Every 10 mins: AU$16<br />
adult, AU$6 child (4–14 years ),<br />
takes 20 mins<br />
Airport parking Short-term<br />
from AU$3; long-term<br />
from AU$29<br />
NEWCASTLE<br />
CBD 20km<br />
Travel time CBD is around<br />
25 mins by car<br />
Taxi Approx AU$60<br />
Shuttle Bus Door-to-door<br />
service (from AU$35) through<br />
Newcastle Information Services<br />
at +61 (2) 4928 9822. Port<br />
Stephens Coaches (public bus)<br />
every hour: AU$6.50 adult,<br />
AU$3.50 concession taking<br />
35 mins<br />
Airport parking AU$2–$25<br />
(1 hr–24 hrs)<br />
PERTH<br />
CBD 12km (domestic terminal)<br />
and 17km (international terminal)<br />
Travel time 30 mins by car<br />
Taxi Approx AU$26 (domestic)<br />
and AU$33 (international)<br />
Perth Airport City Shuttle<br />
Every 30 mins (domestic) and<br />
45 mins (international):<br />
AU$15 adult (domestic),<br />
AU$20 (international); taking<br />
15–35 mins<br />
Fremantle Airporter AU$35<br />
(booking required)<br />
Transperth Bus 37 From<br />
domestic terminal to Kings Park<br />
via the city AU$3.20<br />
Airport parking Short-term<br />
carpark from AU$3.70; long-term<br />
carpark from AU$17<br />
ROCKHAMPTON<br />
CBD 5km<br />
Travel time CBD 5 mins by car<br />
Taxi Approx AU$12<br />
Airport parking Free (24 hrs)<br />
SYDNEY<br />
CBD 8km<br />
Travel time CBD around<br />
15 mins by car<br />
Taxi Approx AU$50<br />
Bus Every 20–30 mins: AU$8<br />
adult, AU$4 child and taking<br />
around 30 mins<br />
Trains Every 10 mins<br />
(weekdays) AU$15 adult and<br />
taking around 13 mins<br />
Airport parking AU$7–AU$52<br />
(30 mins–24 hrs)<br />
SUNSHINE COAST<br />
Travel time Noosa is<br />
30 mins, Maroochydore<br />
is 10–15 mins by car<br />
Taxi Approx AU$56 to Noosa;<br />
Go to surfi ng school<br />
on the Gold Coast<br />
approx AU$28 to Maroochydore<br />
Henry’s Bus Service Meets all<br />
fl ights: AU$20 adult, AU$10 child,<br />
children under 4 years free, and<br />
taking around 45 mins to Noosa<br />
Airport parking AU$4–$18<br />
(2–24 hrs)<br />
TOWNSVILLE<br />
CBD 5km<br />
Travel time CBD around 10 mins<br />
Taxi Approx AU$16<br />
Airport shuttle Booking required<br />
+61 (7) 4775 5544 to the Strand<br />
and city, Sunferries, the Transit<br />
Centre and Coral Princess: AU$8<br />
(adult), and taking around<br />
10–15 mins<br />
Airport parking Short-term<br />
carpark, AU$4–$24<br />
(2 hrs–12 hrs). Long-term<br />
carpark, AU$12–$72 (1–6 days);<br />
thereafter AU$10 per 24-hour<br />
period or part thereof<br />
WHITSUNDAY COAST<br />
CBD 30km from<br />
Proserpine airport<br />
Travel time CBD around<br />
35 mins<br />
Taxi Approx AU$72<br />
Whitsunday Transit AU$15<br />
adult share-ride (one way; AU$28<br />
return), AU$9 child (one way;<br />
AU$16 return), children under<br />
4 years travel free. Meets all<br />
fl ights. For information, call<br />
+61 (7) 4946 1800<br />
Airport parking Free (24hrs)<br />
Photo: Tourism Queensland
GOLD COAST<br />
LOUNGE<br />
GREAT VALUE AT JUST $ 15<br />
Entry at the door + Kids 6 and under are FREE!<br />
The Gold Coast Lounge is open to Jetstar passengers now – once you go<br />
through airport security, turn left down the corridor to fi nd the lounge entrance.<br />
YOU CAN ENJOY:<br />
Complimentary breakfast (including a Japanese-style breakfast), lunch,<br />
dinner and snack menu<br />
Coffee, tea and a range of soft drinks and juices<br />
Complimentary selection of wine and beer at the bar<br />
Plasma screens showing television news, music videos and movies<br />
Comfortable lounge chairs<br />
Dedicated private workstation area<br />
Informal communal tables<br />
Complimentary WiFi access<br />
Magazines and Australian newspapers<br />
All you can eat pancakes from the popular Pancake Maker!<br />
FOR THE KIDS<br />
Children six years and under admitted free of charge<br />
Designated children’s play area includes books, puzzles and a chalk blackboard<br />
Separate children’s cinema fi tted with beanbags showing kids fi lms all day<br />
For more information go to jetstar.com/lounge
Meet a kangaroo at East<br />
Point Reserve<br />
INSET: Fun and games at<br />
Mindil Beach Markets<br />
DARWIN<br />
CAITLIN (3)<br />
The Jetstar staff<br />
member I’m<br />
related to is Kristal<br />
Doonan, domestic<br />
fl ight attendant<br />
The coolest place to go with your whole<br />
family is: Leanyer Recreation Park. This water<br />
park has something for everyone — a swimming<br />
area, three waterslides for the big people, a<br />
water playground for the little ones like me, a<br />
playground, skate park and basketball court.<br />
There are also shaded barbecues and picnic<br />
areas. Best of all, it’s free!<br />
The place to eat the yummiest breakfast is:<br />
Cornucopia Museum Cafe. It has lots of yummy<br />
food and it’s really nice to sit on the balcony and<br />
watch the boats on the water. I even get to have a<br />
babyccino. You can then go to the museum to see<br />
Sweetheart, a 750kg crocodile and lots of other<br />
interesting things.<br />
The most unusual thing we did on holidays<br />
was: Going to Doctors Gully where you can<br />
hand-feed bread to big fi sh.<br />
The one thing I always pack for the fl ight is:<br />
Lots of colouring-in books and a DVD player for<br />
the longer fl ights.<br />
The best place to visit to see animals is:<br />
Crocosaurus Cove in the middle of Darwin city<br />
on Mitchell Street. They have the largest display<br />
of Australian reptiles in the world. You can watch<br />
crocodiles being fed, hold a baby crocodile, look<br />
at the lizards, fi sh and turtles, and the grown-ups<br />
can even get into a cage in the water with the<br />
biggest crocodiles.<br />
The most delicious spot to go out for dinner<br />
is: Mindil Beach Markets. They have so many<br />
different foods to choose from it might take you<br />
all night to decide. You can also shop, watch a<br />
reptile show, listen to live music and watch the<br />
sunset on the beach. It’s open Thursday and<br />
Sunday nights during the dry season.<br />
I love going for walks: From Fannie Bay to East<br />
Point Reserve along the water. There are parks<br />
australian focus<br />
The kids of the Jetstar<br />
team share their favourite<br />
domestic destinations<br />
Photo: Tourism NT/Peter Eve<br />
along the way and if you go at<br />
sunset you might even see some kangaroos.<br />
An interesting fact about Darwin is: It’s closer<br />
to Jakarta than it is to Sydney, and closer to<br />
Singapore than it is to Melbourne.<br />
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Photo: Tourism NT/Steve Strike
australian focus<br />
The things we always pack for the fl ight are:<br />
Blankies and teddies.<br />
Our favourite thing to do in Melbourne is:<br />
Scienceworks at Spotswood. The Star Wars<br />
exhibition is the best. You’re allowed to hold<br />
the light sabre. Mum likes it because it’s the<br />
one place she can take us where we’re actually<br />
allowed to press all the buttons.<br />
Best place to have some fun: We love it when<br />
our Aunty Lou takes us to see the Tigers play at<br />
the MCG. We catch the tram to get there. Lots of<br />
people wear their yellow and black scarves.<br />
We cheer really loudly. Go, Tigers!<br />
The best thing to do with your family is:<br />
Ride around on the trams and trains. We catch<br />
the tram to the South Melbourne Market to eat<br />
punnets of juicy red strawberries. The big dim<br />
sum are great too.<br />
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MELBOURNE<br />
KYRAN (7) AND<br />
SIENA (3)<br />
The Jetstar staff<br />
member we’re related<br />
to is our aunt, Louise<br />
Laing, managing editor<br />
of Jetstar Magazine<br />
GOLD COAST<br />
JAY (8)<br />
The Jetstar staff<br />
member I’m related to is<br />
Linny Chan, people and<br />
culture co-ordinator<br />
The best way to stay entertained on the plane<br />
is: Hiring a VOD. My dad bought me one and I<br />
watched episodes of The Simpsons and played<br />
lots of fun games. Dad was happy because it<br />
meant I didn’t run around the cabin.<br />
My favourite thing to do on the Gold Coast<br />
is: Visit the theme parks. I loved going to Movie<br />
World and Sea World. It rained when we went to<br />
Movie World but it didn’t matter because I got<br />
wet from the Wild West Falls ride anyway. I went<br />
on it 11 times and didn’t feel sick once! The man<br />
who looked after the ride let me stay on it four<br />
times in a row. Dad and I were happy because we<br />
didn’t have to line up again and Linny was happy<br />
because it meant she could stay in the lolly shop<br />
longer.<br />
I learnt a lot about: Being patient. I only asked<br />
“Are we there yet?” fi ve times on the way to Movie<br />
World and learnt that it doesn’t get us there any<br />
Scienceworks at Spotswood<br />
is a day of excitement<br />
The most delicious place to go out to eat is:<br />
Birdie Num Nums on Nicholson Street, Carlton<br />
North. They like kids and have a sandpit for us to<br />
play in. While you’re there, make sure you eat the<br />
delicious chips! My mum says the squid salad is<br />
yummy, too.<br />
faster. Oh, and I also learnt not to ask Linny if<br />
she is sure she is reading the map properly.<br />
Don’t go home without trying: The Wild<br />
West Falls ride at Movie World and the big<br />
water slides at Sea World. I was a little<br />
scared at fi rst, but after the fi rst few turns I<br />
loved it. I didn’t want to leave Movie World<br />
but Linny said it wouldn’t be a good idea<br />
to be left behind because any little kids<br />
found by security will get fed as a snack<br />
to the polar bears over at SeaWorld. I<br />
didn’t like the sound of that.<br />
While you’re there make sure you eat:<br />
The local seafood. It’s really delicious. I<br />
liked the prawns and calamari best.<br />
The coolest place to go with your<br />
whole family is: Sea World. There’s<br />
something for everybody there. They<br />
have polar bears, a dolphin show,<br />
lots of show bags, and rides for kids<br />
and adults.<br />
I always send a postcard to: My<br />
grandma Jill and grandpa Hamie.<br />
They use to live in Mount Gambier<br />
but they have moved to Broken Hill<br />
now because Grandma Jill says it’s<br />
warmer there.<br />
Tweety & Sylvester<br />
Carousel, Movie World<br />
The best place to visit to see animals is:<br />
Melbourne Zoo. We both love to see the elephants<br />
and giraffes. In the summer, you can take your<br />
mum and dad and pack a picnic and listen to jazz<br />
at night. Lots of other kids go with their mums<br />
and dads as well.<br />
Photo: Tourism Queensland<br />
Photo: Tourism Victoria
Aircraft Model<br />
1:200 scale (by Rise Soon)<br />
$40.00<br />
Airbus A330-200<br />
Coffee Mug<br />
$9.50<br />
Boeing 717-200 1:130 scale<br />
Aircraft Models<br />
(by Rise Soon) $38.00 ea<br />
Captain<br />
Jetstar<br />
$15.00<br />
Golf Balls<br />
$39.50 per doz<br />
gift ideas<br />
Backpack<br />
$22.00<br />
Baseball<br />
Cap<br />
$12.00<br />
Airbus A320 1:150 scale<br />
Tucson Watch<br />
$59.90<br />
(men & ladies)<br />
Merchandise available for purchase only through<br />
Jetstar.com/jetshop. Please note that these prices do not<br />
include postage and handling. All prices are in AUD. Prices<br />
subject to change without notification. These are just some of<br />
the items available.<br />
To see our full range visit Jetstar.com/jetshop<br />
One of Australia’s few totally native Botanic Gardens,<br />
specialising in plants from the local Port Curtis<br />
Region. Situated 6km from the centre of Gladstone<br />
on Glen Lyon Road. 170hectres of native forest, lake,<br />
walking tracks, botanical display, playground, picnic<br />
and BBQ’s. Café available.<br />
OPEN April – Sept 8.30am to 5.30pm<br />
Oct – March 9am to 6pm<br />
Tel: (07) 49714444 • Fax: (07) 49793057<br />
Email: tondoon@gcc.qld.gov..au<br />
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for more than 60 years<br />
Phone: 1300 364 277<br />
Website: www.relationships.com.au<br />
Relationships Australia is a leading provider of<br />
relationship support services, including:<br />
◆ Counselling and education for individuals,<br />
couples, families and communities;<br />
◆ Family dispute resolution;<br />
◆ Family violence prevention;<br />
◆ Personal development; and<br />
◆ Training for professionals.<br />
Relationships Australia aims to support all Australians to<br />
achieve positive and respectful relationships. We are a<br />
community-based, not-for-profi t organisation with no religious<br />
affi liations. Our services are for all members of the community,<br />
regardless of religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, lifestyle<br />
choice, cultural background or economic circumstances.<br />
With more than 60 years experience, Relationships Australia<br />
provides confi dential relationship support services in every<br />
state and territory. Our services are provided by professionallytrained<br />
and highly-skilled staff.<br />
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have a bite Jetshop.cafe<br />
Domestic Australia & Trans Tasman<br />
Sunrise Choices<br />
Breakfast Cereal with Milk 3.00<br />
(Only on flights to/from New Zealand)<br />
Snack Choices<br />
Mainland “On the Go” Cheese & 4.00<br />
Crackers<br />
Pringles 4.00<br />
While’s Nibbles Assorted Nuts 3.00<br />
Authentic Nissin Cup Noodles 4.00<br />
(Hot chicken soup filled with yummy noodles)<br />
Meal Choices<br />
Classic Fresh Sandwiches 6.00<br />
St. Dalfour Gourmet & Healthy Meal 5.00<br />
(Served cold: Pasta & Vegetables, Tuna & Pasta,<br />
Chicken & Vegetables.)<br />
Gourmet Chicken Wrap 6.50<br />
(Chicken mixed with basil pesto, mayonnaise and<br />
sundried tomatoes with lettuce in a soft tortilla.<br />
Served cold)<br />
Domestic New Zealand<br />
Please ask your crew member for today’s choices. Products and prices<br />
may vary on some services.<br />
Jetstar apologises should your choice not be available<br />
on this flight.<br />
Warning: Products may contain traces of nuts.<br />
Note: Credit card facilities may not be available on all flights.<br />
Jetstar apologises for any inconvenience.<br />
Australian Domestic: We accept AUD, Visa, MasterCard and<br />
American Express. Credit cards are accepted for purchases up to<br />
AU$50 per flight per card. Minimum credit card charge AU$5. (You<br />
may be asked to provide photographic identification to use a credit<br />
card.) AU$0.50 surcharge for all credit card payments.<br />
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Meat Pie & Sauce 5.00<br />
(Available only on selected flights over 2.5<br />
hours, please ask your cabin crew member)<br />
Hot Meal of the Day 9.50<br />
(Available only on selected flights over 2.5hours,<br />
please ask your cabin crew member)<br />
Sweet Choices<br />
Oven-baked Gourmet Muffin 3.00<br />
Byron Bay Cookie 3.00<br />
Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate Bar 3.00<br />
Beverage Choices<br />
Non Alcoholic<br />
Coke or Diet Coke 3.00<br />
Lemonade 3.00<br />
Solo 3.00<br />
Orange Juice 3.00<br />
Apple Juice 3.00<br />
Still Spring Water 3.00<br />
Red Bull Energy Drink 4.00<br />
New Zealand Domestic: We accept NZD only. We regret we do not<br />
accept credit cards.<br />
Trans Tasman: We accept AUD, NZD, Visa, MasterCard and American<br />
Express. Credit cards are accepted for purchases up to AU$50 per<br />
flight per card. Minimum credit charge AU$5. AU$0.50 surcharge for<br />
all credit card payments.<br />
International: We accept AUD, USD and the currency of the country<br />
you are travelling to/from — notes only. Credit cards including Visa,<br />
MasterCard and American Express are also accepted for purchases<br />
up to AU$75 per flight per card. Minimum credit card charge AU$10.<br />
(You may be asked to provide photographic identification to use a<br />
credit card.)<br />
Unless otherwise stated, all prices are in Australian Dollars.<br />
Café<br />
Jasper Coffee – Fairtrade and Organic 3.00<br />
Nature’s Cuppa Tea – Fairtrade and Organic<br />
Nestlé Hot Chocolate<br />
While’s – Café style Hot and 3.50<br />
Creamy Cappuccino<br />
Beer<br />
Heineken 7.00<br />
Victoria Bitter 6.00<br />
XXXX Gold 6.00<br />
(Mid-strength = 1 standard drink)<br />
Wine 6.50<br />
Hardys White Wine – Chardonnay<br />
Hardys Red Wine – Shiraz<br />
Omni Classic Sparkling NV<br />
Spirits Pre-mixed 7.50<br />
Bundaberg Rum & Cola<br />
Slate Bourbon & Cola<br />
Gordon’s Gin & Tonic<br />
Smirnoff Vodka Ice Red<br />
Johnnie Walker Scotch & Cola<br />
Beverages (Non Alcoholic) NZ$<br />
Still Spring Water 3.00<br />
Orange Juice 3.00<br />
Apple Juice 3.00<br />
Coke or Diet Coke 3.00<br />
Lemonade 3.00<br />
Café<br />
Nature’s Cuppa Tea – Fairtrade and 3.00<br />
Organic<br />
Jasper Coffee – Fairtrade and Organic 3.00<br />
While’s – Café style Hot and Creamy 3.50<br />
Cappuccino<br />
Nestle Hot Chocolate 3.00<br />
Beverages (Alcoholic)<br />
Beer – Speights Gold Medal Ale 6.00<br />
Hardys White Wine – Chardonnay 6.50<br />
Hardys Red Wine – Shiraz 6.50<br />
Sweet Choices<br />
Cookie Time Chocolate Fix 3.00<br />
Oven-baked Gourmet Muffin 3.00<br />
Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate Bar 3.00<br />
Snack Choices<br />
Authentic Nissin Cup Noodles 4.00<br />
While’s Nibbles Assorted Nuts 3.00<br />
Pringles 4.00<br />
St. Dalfour Gourmet & Healthy Meal 5.00<br />
(Served cold: Pasta & Vegetables, Tuna & Pasta,<br />
Chicken & Vegetables.)
International<br />
Snack Choices<br />
Pringles 4.00<br />
While’s Nibbles Assorted Nuts 3.00<br />
Mainland “On the Go” Cheese & 4.00<br />
Crackers<br />
Authentic Nissin Cup Noodles 4.00<br />
Miso Soup (Japan flights only) 3.00<br />
Meal Choices<br />
Classic Fresh Sandwiches 6.00<br />
Light Meal (not available on all flights) 10.00<br />
Full Meal 15.00<br />
Sweet Choices<br />
Byron Bay Cookie 3.00<br />
Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate Bar 3.00<br />
Please ask your crew member for today’s choices. Products and prices<br />
may vary on some services.<br />
Jetstar apologises should your choice not be available<br />
on this flight.<br />
Warning: Products may contain traces of nuts.<br />
Note: Credit card facilities may not be available on all flights.<br />
Jetstar apologises for any inconvenience.<br />
Australian Domestic: We accept AUD, Visa, MasterCard and<br />
American Express. Credit cards are accepted for purchases up to<br />
AU$50 per flight per card. Minimum credit card charge AU$5. (You<br />
may be asked to provide photographic identification to use a credit<br />
card.) AU$0.50 surcharge for all credit card payments.<br />
An alternative menu may be offered on some fl ights. Please ask your cabin crew.<br />
Beverage Choices<br />
Non Alcoholic<br />
Coke or Diet Coke 2.00<br />
Lemonade 2.00<br />
Ginger Ale 2.00<br />
Solo 2.00<br />
Tonic Water 2.00<br />
Orange Juice 2.00<br />
Apple Juice 2.00<br />
Still Spring Water 3.00<br />
Red Bull Energy Drink 4.00<br />
Café<br />
Jasper Coffee – Fairtrade and Organic 3.00<br />
Nature’s Cuppa Tea – Fairtrade and Organic<br />
Nestlé Hot Chocolate<br />
While’s – Café style Hot and Creamy 3.50<br />
Cappuccino<br />
Oolong Tea (Japan flights only) 3.00<br />
New Zealand Domestic: We accept NZD only. We regret we do not<br />
accept credit cards.<br />
Trans Tasman: We accept AUD, NZD, Visa, MasterCard and American<br />
Express. Credit cards are accepted for purchases up to AU$50 per<br />
flight per card. Minimum credit charge AU$5. AU$0.50 surcharge for<br />
all credit card payments.<br />
International: We accept AUD, USD and the currency of the country<br />
you are travelling to/from — notes only. Credit cards including Visa,<br />
MasterCard and American Express are also accepted for purchases<br />
up to AU$75 per flight per card. Minimum credit card charge AU$10.<br />
(You may be asked to provide photographic identification to use a<br />
credit card.)<br />
Unless otherwise stated, all prices are in Australian Dollars.<br />
Beer<br />
Heineken 7.00<br />
Victoria Bitter 6.00<br />
XXXX Gold 6.00<br />
(Mid-strength = 1 standard drink)<br />
Asahi Beer (Japan flights only) 7.00<br />
Wine<br />
Hardys White Wine – Chardonnay 6.50<br />
Hardys Red Wine – Shiraz 6.50<br />
Omni Classic Sparkling NV 6.50<br />
Sake 180ml (Japan flights only) 6.00<br />
Spirits<br />
Straight up: 6.00<br />
With mixer: 7.00<br />
Bundaberg Rum<br />
Gordon’s Gin<br />
Smirnoff Vodka<br />
Johnnie Walker Red<br />
Jim Beam Bourbon<br />
DID YOU KNOW?<br />
You can pre-pay your meals and enjoy<br />
unlimited non-alcoholic drinks, such as<br />
water, juices, soft drinks, tea and coffee<br />
(cappuccino and Red Bull excluded)<br />
during your international fl ight?<br />
It’s easy! Just select the FEED ME option<br />
for $30 each way when booking at<br />
Jetstar.com<br />
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Domestic Australia & Trans Tasman Specials (Not available on domestic New Zealand flights)<br />
Sandwich Combo 1<br />
Water or soft drink or<br />
juice, sandwich, Pringles<br />
(excludes Red Bull)<br />
$ 12.00<br />
Sandwich Combo 2<br />
Water or soft drink or juice,<br />
sandwich,<br />
chocolate bar<br />
(excludes Red Bull)<br />
$ 11.00<br />
Wrap Combo<br />
Water or soft drink or juice,<br />
gourmet chicken wrap<br />
(excludes Red Bull)<br />
$ 9.00<br />
Please ask your crew member for today’s choices. Products and<br />
prices may vary on some services.<br />
Jetstar apologises should your choice not be available<br />
on this flight.<br />
Warning: Products may contain traces of nuts.<br />
Note: Credit card facilities may not be available on all flights.<br />
Jetstar apologises for any inconvenience.<br />
Australian Domestic: We accept AUD, Visa, MasterCard and<br />
American Express. Credit cards are accepted for purchases up to<br />
AU$50 per flight per card. Minimum credit card charge AU$5. (You<br />
may be asked to provide photographic identification to use a credit<br />
card.) AU$0.50 surcharge for all credit card payments.<br />
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Sweet Deal<br />
Coffee or tea or hot<br />
chocolate, and muffin or<br />
cookie (excludes cappuccino)<br />
$ 5.00<br />
New Zealand Domestic: We accept NZD only. We regret we do not<br />
accept credit cards.<br />
Trans Tasman: We accept AUD, NZD, Visa, MasterCard and<br />
American Express. Credit cards are accepted for purchases up to<br />
AU$50 per flight per card. Minimum credit charge AU$5. AU$0.50<br />
surcharge for all credit card payments.<br />
International: We accept AUD, USD and the currency of the<br />
country you are travelling to/from - notes only. Credit cards<br />
including Visa, MasterCard and American Express are also<br />
accepted for purchases up to AU$75 per flight per card. Minimum<br />
credit card charge AU$10. (You may be asked to provide<br />
photographic identification to use a credit card.)<br />
Unless otherwise stated, all prices are in Australian Dollars.<br />
Jet Snack Combo<br />
Water or soft drink or juice, Gourmet<br />
snack, chocolate bar (excludes Red Bull)<br />
$ 10.00<br />
Happy Hour<br />
Beer (excludes premium beer)<br />
or wine, nuts<br />
$ 8.50<br />
International<br />
Special<br />
Wine, cheese and crackers<br />
$ 9.50<br />
(Excludes services to and<br />
from New Zealand)
CITY<br />
IN<br />
hat’s hot in the brew for Spring<br />
2010? Resorts World Sentosa<br />
and Marina Bay Sands will open<br />
their doors to great anticipation.<br />
Housing an unprecedented range<br />
of unique off erings including Southeast Asia’s fi rst<br />
Universal Studios theme park, a wide range of shopping<br />
and dining options, and 24/7 world class entertainment,<br />
Resorts World Sentosa would be a destination of choice<br />
for everyone.<br />
In addition, coming alive from the drawing board of<br />
visionary architect Moshe Safdie, leisure and business<br />
travelers can look forward to over 120,000 square meters<br />
of MICE facilities, unparalleled selection of shopping,<br />
Celebrity Chef Restaurants and more - all within the<br />
iconic Marina Bay Sands.<br />
Arts and fashion afi cionados, mark your calendar<br />
for the annual anchors featuring A-list artistes and cutting<br />
edge performances at Mosaic Music Festival, M1<br />
Singapore Fringe Festival and Huayi Chinese Festival<br />
of Arts. While treating your senses to spectacular performances,<br />
add colours to your closet with Cheongsam<br />
inspired apparel as local designers bring the gaiety and<br />
vibrancy of spring into chic streets wear.<br />
It is amazing to see how budding<br />
Singapore has blossomed over the years<br />
into a sophisticated, cosmopolitan city.<br />
In the midst of these new excitements,<br />
yet, in its magical salad bowl, remains<br />
a delightful mix of age-old traditions,<br />
culture and activities surrounding its<br />
people. Keep your cameras clicking at the<br />
hair-raising parade of devotees with spikes-<br />
CHINGAY<br />
MARINA BAY SANDS THAIPUSAM<br />
ADVERTORIAL<br />
RESORTS WORLD<br />
SENTOSA<br />
pierced body at the Th aipusam. Or be dazzled<br />
by the magnifi cent display of lights at the<br />
Chinatown Light-Up. And of course, do<br />
not miss the fascinating showcase of<br />
Singapore’s cultural vibrancy at Asia’s<br />
grandest street festival, Chingay 2010.<br />
With all these hot off erings surrounding<br />
an evolving landscape and skyline,<br />
Singapore is a destination you don’t want<br />
to miss. Be sure to get your seats secured!
inflight entertainment<br />
MOVIES — ALL FLIGHTS<br />
UP<br />
In this animation, 78-year-old Carl<br />
Fredricksen ties balloons to his<br />
home and sets out to see South<br />
America. Voiced by Christopher<br />
Plummer and Edward Asner. PG<br />
(96 mins) AVAILABLE WITH OPEN CAPTION<br />
MOVIES —<br />
ALL FLIGHTS —<br />
AUSTRALIAN<br />
FAVOURITES<br />
THREE BLIND MICE<br />
Three Navy offi cers hit Sydney<br />
before Gulf duty and discover<br />
courage, friendship and redemption.<br />
Starring Matthew Newton, Ewen<br />
Leslie and Toby Schmitz. M (94 mins)<br />
LAST RIDE<br />
A young father goes on the run with<br />
his 10-year-old son after committing<br />
a violent crime. Starring Hugo<br />
Weaving and John Brumpton.<br />
M (90 mins)<br />
CONTENT MAY CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE.<br />
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You can watch movies, TV shows, cartoons and music videos or listen to the latest music on<br />
selected Jetstar services. Simply rent one of our portable Video on Demand* units from the<br />
cabin crew during your fl ight. *Not available on all fl ights. Please ask your cabin crew<br />
for availability. All movies indicate Australian ratings.<br />
AU$10 Domestic/Trans Tasman/A320/A321 short haul international services (selected<br />
movies, plus all Australian Favourites and other entertainment)<br />
AU$15 International (AU$12 pre-pay)<br />
THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE<br />
Clare has been in love with Henry<br />
her entire life and believes they are<br />
destined to be together although<br />
Henry time-travels. Starring Eric<br />
Bana and Rachel McAdams. M (106<br />
mins) AVAILABLE DUBBED IN JAPANESE<br />
MAO’S LAST DANCER<br />
A drama based on the life of Li<br />
Cunxin, who was plucked from his<br />
poor village when young by Madame<br />
Mao’s cultural delegates to learn<br />
ballet. Starring Bruce Greenwood<br />
and Joan Chen. PG (117 mins)<br />
THE INCREDIBLES<br />
Mr Incredible and his wife Helen<br />
move to the suburbs in a bid to<br />
have a normal life with their three<br />
incredible children. Voiced by Holly<br />
Hunter and Samuel L Jackson. PG<br />
(115 mins) AVAILABLE DUBBED IN JAPANESE<br />
MOVIES — ALSO SHOWING ON INTERNATIONAL<br />
LONG HAUL FLIGHTS<br />
HARRY POTTER<br />
AND THE HALF-<br />
BLOOD PRINCE<br />
Voldemort is<br />
tightening his grip<br />
and Hogwarts is no<br />
longer safe. Harry<br />
suspects the danger<br />
may lie within the<br />
castle. Starring Daniel<br />
Radcliffe and Emma<br />
Watson. M (147 mins)<br />
AVAILABLE DUBBED<br />
IN JAPANESE<br />
FINDING NEMO<br />
A clownfi sh called<br />
Marlin lives with his<br />
son Nemo in the<br />
colourful and warm<br />
tropical waters of the<br />
Great Barrier Reef. He<br />
struggles to protect<br />
his son from the risks<br />
of the ocean. Voiced<br />
by Albert Brooks and<br />
Willem Dafoe. G<br />
(101 mins)<br />
JULIE AND JULIA<br />
Based on two true<br />
stories, two women<br />
divided by time<br />
and space discover<br />
that with the right<br />
combination of<br />
passion, fearlessness<br />
and butter, anything<br />
is possible. Starring<br />
Meryl Streep and Amy<br />
Adams. M (120 mins)<br />
AVAILABLE DUBBED<br />
IN JAPANESE<br />
MARY POPPINS<br />
Two children after<br />
losing their nanny gets<br />
an assertive nanny<br />
who matches the<br />
qualifi cations of the<br />
children but not the<br />
father. Starring Julie<br />
Andrews and Dick Van<br />
Dyke. G (139 mins)
TV SHOWS<br />
FUTURAMA<br />
Where The Buggalo Roam<br />
(25 mins)<br />
CSI<br />
Grounds for Deception<br />
(50 mins)<br />
SPORTS<br />
RED BULL AIR RACE<br />
(50 mins)<br />
BUSINESS<br />
TEENS<br />
THE REAL<br />
ALAN SUGAR<br />
(60 mins)<br />
CHUCK<br />
Chuck vs<br />
The Truth<br />
(50 mins)<br />
MY NAME IS EARL<br />
Faked My Own Death<br />
(25 mins)<br />
DEXTER<br />
Finding Freebo<br />
(50 mins)<br />
OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP<br />
<strong>2009</strong> OFFICIAL FILM<br />
(50 mins)<br />
MUSIC CHANNELS<br />
NOVA NEW MUSIC FIRST<br />
A320: Channel 1 / A330: Channel 3<br />
Discover the hottest new stuff from around the world with<br />
Nova on Jetstar playing new music fi rst. Rock, dance, hiphop,<br />
alternative, pop – if it’s new and hot, you’ll hear it here<br />
fi rst. www.novafm.com.au<br />
VEGA PLAYING THE 70S 80S & BEST<br />
NEW SONGS<br />
A320: Channel 2 / A330 and A321: Channel 4<br />
With Vega on Jetstar, you can sit back and enjoy your fl ight,<br />
while listening to the classic songs from the 70s and the<br />
80s, along with the best new songs. www.vegafm.com.au<br />
JETSTAR TITANS RADIO<br />
A320 and A321: Channel 3 / A330: Channel 5<br />
Bigger and better than ever in <strong>2009</strong>, Jetstar Titans radio<br />
presents listeners with the latest music and exclusive<br />
interviews with your favourite Jetstar Titans players,<br />
BETTER OFF TED<br />
Pilot<br />
(25 mins)<br />
FRINGE<br />
The Arrival<br />
(50 mins)<br />
WORLD CUP 2010:<br />
READY TO PLAY?<br />
(30 mins)<br />
DRAGONS’<br />
DEN<br />
(60 mins)<br />
GOSSIP GIRL<br />
Never Been<br />
Marcused<br />
(50 mins)<br />
FLIGHT OF THE<br />
CONCHORDS<br />
The New Cup<br />
(25 mins)<br />
LIE TO ME<br />
Life is Priceless<br />
(50 mins)<br />
JETSTAR’S ESCAPE<br />
WORLD BUSINESS<br />
SPECIAL EDITION<br />
(30 mins)<br />
90210<br />
Lucky Strike<br />
(50 mins)<br />
sporting celebrities and some of Australia’s favourite and<br />
emerging musicians. There are quizzes, competitions and<br />
some great prizes to be won.<br />
SOUL PLANE<br />
A320: Channel 4 / A330: Channel 6 / A321: Channel 9<br />
Tune into Soul Plane and you’re guranteed a smooth ride.<br />
With cruising classics and cool contemporary soul songs,<br />
you’ll groove your way from A to B<br />
LOTS OF LOVE<br />
A320 and A321: Channel 5 / A330: Channel 7<br />
Cruisy tunes to soothe and groove through the fl ight with<br />
sounds from Alicia Keys, Barry White and Stevie Wonder.<br />
TOP SHELF<br />
A320 and A321: Channel 6 / A330: Channel 8<br />
The latest music on the top of the pop charts from Fergie,<br />
Timbaland, Pete Murray and more.<br />
FOR KIDS<br />
BEN 10<br />
Big Fat Alien<br />
Wedding<br />
(25 mins)<br />
DEXTER’S LAB<br />
Poppa Wheelie<br />
(25 mins)<br />
ED. EDD & EDDY<br />
Rent a Ed /<br />
Shoo Ed<br />
(25 mins)<br />
ROCKSTAR<br />
A320 and A321: Channel 7 / A330: Channel 9<br />
A selection of the latest rock from Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin,<br />
The Clash, Pearl Jam and more.<br />
STAR STRUCK<br />
A320 and A321: Channel 8 / A330: Channel 10<br />
An eclectic mix of songs from the 60s to today featuring<br />
Elvis Costello, R.E.M, Powderfi nger, Johnny Cash<br />
and more.<br />
MADE IN JAPAN<br />
A330: Channel 11<br />
All the hottest tracks straight from the top of the<br />
Japanese pop charts.<br />
THE<br />
POWERPUFF<br />
GIRLS<br />
Roughing It Up/<br />
What’s the Big Idea<br />
(25 mins)<br />
FOSTERS<br />
HOME FOR<br />
IMAGINARY<br />
FRIENDS<br />
Go Goo Go<br />
(25 mins)<br />
JOHNNY<br />
BRAVO<br />
Blanky Hank<br />
Panky<br />
(25 mins)<br />
MUSIC VIDEOS:Catch Lil<br />
Wayne Kevin Rudolf (“Let it Rock”),<br />
Lily Allen (“Not Fair”), Morrissey<br />
(“I’m Throwing My Arms Around<br />
Paris”), Noisettes (“Don’t Upset the<br />
Rhythm”), Petshop Boys (“Love<br />
etc”), Take That (“Up All Night”), The<br />
Killers (“Spaceman”), U2 (“Get On Yer<br />
Boots”), Asher Roth (“I Love College”),<br />
Black Eyed Peas (“Boom Boom Pow”)<br />
and more.<br />
GAMES:Try your hand at Cave<br />
Crunch, Solitaire, Tetris, Timon &<br />
Pumbaa’s Burper, Sudoku, Caveman<br />
and Invasion.<br />
NOSTALGIA JAPAN<br />
A330: Channel 12<br />
Your all-time favourite Japanese songs from yesteryear.<br />
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GET YOUR HEADSETS AND TUNE IN!<br />
Enjoy the entertainment on the cabin screens throughout the aircraft on<br />
channel 1 for English and channel 13 for Japanese. Buy them onboard from<br />
your cabin crew for AU$5 with bonus protective case.<br />
FLIGHTS FROM AUSTRALIA (excludes all short haul international services)<br />
MOVIE TV<br />
MY LIFE IN RUINS<br />
Georgia, who is<br />
discouraged by her lack<br />
of direction in life, works<br />
as a travel guide showing<br />
tourists the beauty of her<br />
native Greece and begins<br />
to see things in new ways.<br />
MERCURIO’S MENU<br />
Paul Mercurio is your tour host and<br />
resident cook as he escorts viewers<br />
around Australia, visiting farms and<br />
fresh food producers in some of the<br />
most idyllic locations.<br />
WORST WEEK<br />
When Sam gives it his<br />
all to help the Claytons<br />
prepare for Dick’s<br />
birthday party, he loses<br />
his pants and some<br />
dignity in his effort to<br />
make everything perfect.<br />
NAVY NCIS<br />
FLIGHTS TO AUSTRALIA (excludes all short haul international services)<br />
MOVIE<br />
TV<br />
ANGELS & DEMONS<br />
Robert Langdon follows a 400year-old<br />
trail of ancient symbols<br />
that mark the Vatican’s only hope<br />
for survival.<br />
THE SIMPSONS<br />
Maggie’s squeaky pacifi er sets<br />
Homer sleepwalking and doing<br />
mischief. He and his buddies had<br />
to become fi refi ghters after the<br />
fi re department lands in hospital.<br />
ESCAPE: HAWAII<br />
With help from some colourful<br />
locals, David Whitehall explores<br />
the Hawaiian islands and discovers<br />
there’s so much more than surfi ng<br />
to this wonderful culture.<br />
THE MENTALIST<br />
Patrick Jane plays mind games<br />
with the suspects in the case<br />
of a wealthy investment banker<br />
found murdered inside his<br />
locked saferoom.<br />
TWO AND A HALF MEN<br />
Charlie’s new girlfriend asks him to<br />
spend the night at her place, while<br />
Alan tries to enforce a punishment<br />
on Jake.<br />
The NCIS team fi nds<br />
an abandoned car full<br />
of blood registered to a<br />
missing Navy lieutenant<br />
who was profi ling men<br />
to fi nd the perfect one<br />
for herself.<br />
THE NEW ADVENTURES OF<br />
OLD CHRISTINE<br />
Christine is shocked when a<br />
new dad at Ritchie’s school calls<br />
her a “meanie mum” for being<br />
judgmental and standoffi sh.<br />
POSITIVE FOOTPRINTS: PERU<br />
A group of World Expeditions<br />
travellers trek to Qelqanqa Village,<br />
high in the Urubamba mountains<br />
to complete a vital footbridge and<br />
water project.<br />
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER THE BIG BANG THEORY<br />
I GET THAT A LOT<br />
MYTHBUSTERS<br />
When Marshall’s boss verbally<br />
After Leonard tries to do a favour Six celebs working regular jobs play Adam and Jamie take a fan mail<br />
berates him, he questions whether for Penny by signing up for a<br />
practical jokes on unsuspecting fi lm and use it to dial in on a phone<br />
his decision to work for a big<br />
package, Sheldon ruins the plan<br />
fans who can’t decide whether it’s book fable. Then Kari, Grant and<br />
corporate law fi rm was his best<br />
and Leonard sees his attempt at a case of mistaken identity or<br />
Tory test Hollywood pyrotechnics<br />
career move.<br />
chivalry go horribly awry.<br />
actual celebrity.<br />
with their own big bang theories.
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