Graeme Kemlo has been on the Gold Coast - Australia’s sixth largest and fastest growing city. It is expecting to reach one million residents from the current 680,000 over the next 15 to 20 years. Part of the growth in this city, which stretches 57km along the coast from the outer suburbs of Brisbane to the New South Wales border, is from southerners fleeing the cold weather, and families seeking opportunities for work and lifestyle. Graeme Speaks with Avril Harris of Experience Gold Coast about This Is Gold Coast - the event he attended.

More information: experiencegoldcoast.com.au

Photo: Avril Harris by Graeme Kemlo

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Veteran reporter Alistair Smith has discovered a full-sized modern version of Britain’s famous Stonehenge in the south-west corner of Western Australia. It is a complete circle of stones, scientifically set up to deliver the summer and winter solstice sunrise and sunset rays that illuminate the central altar carved from the local pink granite of Esperance.

Photo: Alistair Smith beside the Aussie Stonehenge

Two mates go on a two-week, six-state, 1700km drive through New England in the US. This week, Carolyne Jasinski and Helen Hayes take you from Rhode Island through Connecticut and The Berkshires.

Photo: Carolyne Jasinski - covered bridge in Cornwall CT

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Two mates go on a two-week, six-state, 1700km drive through New England in the US. This week, Carolyne Jasinski and Helen Hayes take you from Boston in Massachusetts through Rhode Island.

Photo: Carolyne Jasinski

Carolyne Jasinski's sunset shot from the South Australian outback town of Parachilna is definitely @worth1000Words

It has been two years since the Lahaina fire in Maui, but as Helen Hayes found on her recent trip, locals want visitors to come back. As Helen reports, there is plenty to see and do on this beautiful island.

Link to Helen's earlier story on Maui: https://soundcloud.com/travelwritersradio/theresa-van-greunen-aqua-aston-on-return-to-maui-helen-hayes?si=b346763730e641f8ad61edf14c8d7155&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Image: Aqua Aston's Kaanapali Shores

Graeme Kemlo speaks with our Spain-based correspondent, Karin Avila, herself a US Citizen seeking her comment on the significant drop in visitor number to USA that according to the World Trade and Tourism Council could cost America more than $28 Billion in lost visitor revenue.

Photo: LAX Arrival Hall -Creative Commons

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