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Australia is new and old, gentle and bold. That\u2019s how a lot of travel folks put it: a \u201cland of contrasts\u201d. Despite the cliche, they\u2019re not wrong<\/em>. This, after all, is home to both an ancient living culture and a forward-looking cosmopolitanism straddled across the largest, and probably most beautiful, island in the world. Big places contain multitudes. That\u2019s another saying from the books.<\/p>\n

But we think that things can get lost in translation (despite the shared language), because Australia \u2013 far-flung and ferociously beautiful \u2013 is bigger and stranger than the Sydney Opera House and scorched red earth (Editor\u2019s note: these things are of course totally beautiful). Freycinet, the Blue Mountains, and the Whitsundays tell another story \u2013 one that\u2019s wholesome and<\/em> hidden, and that really knows how to look after families.<\/p>\n

This trip \u2013 which we\u2019ve been finessing like a glass of Tasmanian Riesling (which you\u2019ll love) \u2013 will greet you like an old friend, but it also has a lot of surprises up its Antipodean sleeve. It\u2019s a little city, a lot of unfiltered nature, and plenty time to reconnect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Australia is new and old, gentle and bold. That\u2019s how a lot of travel folks put it: a \u201cland of contrasts\u201d. Despite the cliche, they\u2019re not wrong. This, after all, is home to both an ancient living culture and a forward-looking cosmopolitanism straddled across the largest, and probably most beautiful, island in the world. 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