Trip World News

AT 1.50pm yesterday Apache Cat was just a pretty face, wet with
sweat and kicking up his heels for strapper Ty Poulton, in the
white-fenced walking yard at Flemington. Just over two hours later
the five-year-old had on his game face, white blinkers adding to
his famous white-splashed head.
The Cat has been much more than a pretty face since [...]

French president Nicolas Sarkozy married
supermodel-turned-singer Carla Bruni at the Elysee Palace, just
three months after they started dating.
“Ms Carla Bruni Tedeschi and Mr Nicolas Sarkozy would like to
announce that they got married this morning in the presence of
their families and in the utmost privacy,” a statement from
Sarkozy’s Elysee office said.
The pair tied the knot at a [...]

WHEN Russell Crowe first told Jason Taylor he wanted to take
South Sydney to the US for a pre-season camp, the coach had some
reservations about how it would affect their preparations so close
to the premiership kick-off.
But any drop off in the intensity of training has been more than
compensated by the way the players have bonded during [...]

Mark Hawthorne finds a plethora of diversions, from
boating to bathing to biking.
The harbour has always been Sydney’s playground, a stretch of
water that lies at the very heart of the Emerald City’s cultural
identity.
By contrast, Melburnians are somewhat more blase about Port
Phillip Bay even though, at 1950 square kilometres, it’s 35 times
the size of Sydney’s famous waterway, [...]

Patrick Horton watches a rising sun lift the curtain on
the highest mountains in the world.
Darjeeling’s narrow streets echo to the baying of dog packs as I
creep out of my hotel at 4am like an absconding guest. Twinkling
stars sit in a cloudless sky, which is just what I need.
Fortunately my driver is on time and, as [...]

APART from a few fine restaurants, George Parade in the city
houses nothing more than rubbish bins and rats. At lunchtime
yesterday, however, it was the scene of a lavish banquet inspired
by the cult food movie, Big Night.
The acclaimed 1996 film tells the story of two Italian brothers
who emigrate to the US in the 1950s to open [...]

Volkswagen’s sleek new Passat gives more expensive Europeans a
run for their money.
THE Passat is Volkswagen’s family car and while it is the
company’s No. 3 best-seller, it still accounts for about 3000 sales
a year.
The Passat was formerly the forgotten car in the VW line-up but
the new-generation model released in March 2006 with a sleeker new
look and [...]

NINE days ago, Scottish drawing rooms echoed with the glorious,
phlegm-sodden sounds of Robert Burns poems, recited loudly and at
length.
Burns Night takes place every year on January 25, the presumed
birthday of the adored Scottish poet. A haggis supper is optional,
but recitation of Burns’ most famous poem, the feisty Address to
a Haggis, is not.
In it, he hails [...]

Graham Simmons visits a small country town with some big
attractions.
THE sign at the town entrance tells it all: “Welcome to
Cunnamulla, settled in the Dreamtime.” Aussie towns don’t get much
older than that. Nor do they get much more welcoming and community
spirited.
Cunnamulla, a heritage town in western Queensland about 11 hours
by road west of Brisbane, is a [...]

French President Nicolas Sarkozy jetted to famed monument to love the Taj Mahal on Saturday while on a state visit to India but without his supermodel-turned-popstar girlfriend Carla Bruni.
The 17th-century white marble mausoleum was sealed off to tourists for the brief visit, with Sarkozy writing in the visitors’ book that his trip was “unforgettable,” local [...]