Missing travel? At least you can take your taste buds on a trip
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Cruising might be off the agenda until the back end of this year, but you can taste your way overseas with a bit of help from these new food and wine offerings.
Trippy for your taste buds
The World’s Longest Brunch wil be hosted by Kate Reid and Nathan Toleman.
It had to be cancelled last year, so it’s been a while between drinks for the annual Melbourne Food & Wine Festival. To play catch-up, this year’s line-up is billed Food 20 and Wine 21. We’ve been missing international travel, but the festival provides a nice trip – at least for your taste buds – with sessions such as: Conveniently Tokyo (Japanese convenience-store classics for dinner); The Best of Italian Yum Cha (steamer baskets of tortellini and more); plus A Journey through Peru. Just don an alpaca-wool chullo and enjoy some
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Here we are in 2021 and it s still unlikely we ll be flying overseas any time soon. So make the most of staying home. Here are my dream escapes for the year.
Western Australia
Sunset at Sal Salis – the perfect spot for whale watching from shore.
Since opening in 2007, this pitch and pack-up eco camp near Exmouth has roared up the must-do charts. Each of its 16 eco luxe wilderness tents is set back in the dunes of the Cape Range National Park, overlooking the glittering Indian Ocean and its World Heritage-listed Ningaloo Reef – home to more than 500 species of colourful fish, along with rays, turtles, whale sharks, and 250 types of coral. Priced from $749 a person a night in low season.
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When it comes to travel, the wipeout that was 2020 has been so deeply etched that it hardly needs summarising. Virtually everyone has cancelled a holiday many times over, and the âcredit pointsâ bank is close to overflowing.
Global international arrivals for the year dropped 75 per cent compared to 2019 figures â marking a return to 1990 travel volumes, according to the United Nations World Tourism Organisation.
The Asia-Pacific suffered the biggest drop of any region this year, with 82 per cent fewer inbound tourists.
As the world deals with the swings and roundabouts of mutant strains of COVID-19, and swaths of travellers â the elderly and those with existing health conditions â concerned about boarding flights or cruise ships, what does 2021 hold?