Langkawi Rebak Island Resort
Taj Resort Langkawi Beach, Malaysia

Rebak Island Resort in Langkawi is one of the best romantic vacations I have had in a very long time and this beautiful place is also located on one of the 99 islands that make up Langkawi. The Rebak Island Resort is also managed by the famous TAJ Hotel group on this 390 acre privately owned island here in Langkawi Island, Malaysia. I had the pleasure of visiting this amazing place over one weekend in August 2010 and here is my story.

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Food & Wine in Portugal
Portugal Scenery

Melbourne based food writer Rita Erlich, and Australian winemaker, Alex White, are conducting a comprehensive and fully-guided gourmet tour of Portugal. With decades of industry knowledge, expertise and travel experience, and an extraordinary itinerary of which they have gone to exhaustive detail in their brochure, this is unquestionably the best way to see Portugal if you are a gourmet and wise enough to leave all the hard work and research up to the experts – all you have to do is turn up and have a great time and experience of a lifetime.

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All in a day’s fishing off White Island
Fishing off white island

My stepmother, Trish Marsh, hauled in this huge Bass earlier this year.

So impressed by Trish’s catch, I decided to share her remarkable feat with you. As you can well imagine, Trish is not the sort of person to be messed with, having that certain fortitude and resolve entrenched in New Zealanders.

I am also seizing on the opportunity to enlighten those who have no idea where White Island or Ohope Beach is; my folk’s Shangri-La. Perhaps I am also feeling a little nostalgic and craving a bit of New Zealand.

Dealing with White Island first, or Whakaari Island as it is known indigenously, it is located 48 km offshore from Ohope Beach, on the east coast of New Zealand’s north island, in the Bay of Plenty.

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