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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks AB.

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Speaker 2: That travel correspondent as Mike Yardley and speaking of travel, sir,

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Speaker 2: it looks like Donald Trump might be traveling very soon.

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Speaker 2: The last words spoken in the joint press conference with

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Speaker 2: Vladimir Putin came from the Russian president, who turned to

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Speaker 2: his US counterpart and said, next time in Moscow.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so it certainly does. Yes. Yeah, anyway, I've

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Speaker 3: been watching I've been watching Alaska all morning, Jack, and

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Speaker 3: I think the one word I've gotten response the last

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Speaker 3: six hours would be opaque. You know, we just we

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Speaker 3: don't quite know what those No, there's clearly some sticking points.

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Speaker 3: I think it would appear they've made headway. But maybe

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Speaker 3: those phone calls to NATO and Europe and Ukraine overnight

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Speaker 3: will will settle the score.

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Speaker 2: Who Yeah, I'm sure some stuff will be over the

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Speaker 2: next few hours. We'll get a little bit more detailed.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, I know, I mean, you know, I'm open minded. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: for the Ukrainians perspective. From the Ukrainians perspective, you don't

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Speaker 2: want to see some deal where by the US is

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Speaker 2: demanding that heaps of territory has given up. But also

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Speaker 2: you know that's fighting stop, so watch the space. I

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Speaker 2: suppose anyway, we are turning our attention to slightly more

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Speaker 2: peaceful climbs this morning. Self driving the Sunshine Coast hinterland,

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Speaker 2: and that hinterland in the Sunshine Coast just feels a

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Speaker 2: total kind of world away from the from the beaches

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Speaker 2: and the coast. What is the attraction?

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Speaker 3: Well, I goodness is the fabulous thing about the Sunshine

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Speaker 3: Coast jack because the beach culture is great, but the

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Speaker 3: fact you can zip up into the verdant highlands in

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Speaker 3: just twenty minutes is so cool, you know, just all

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Speaker 3: it such a rich mix of holiday pursuits when you're

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Speaker 3: over there, and from Auckland there are now year round

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Speaker 3: wrecked flights to Marucci door, so it's super easy to

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Speaker 3: get to. You don't have to go through Brisbane. The

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Speaker 3: thing about the hinterland and the reason I'm a hardcore fan,

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Speaker 3: You've just got so many treats, these cute and cozy

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Speaker 3: mountain villages, national parks and so many scenic attractions as

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Speaker 3: well that you can just all stitch together on a

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Speaker 3: self drive.

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Speaker 2: So where would be a good starting point?

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Speaker 3: Well, I would probably head up to the northern end

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Speaker 3: to your Monday. It's a very charismatic township. The signature

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Speaker 3: draw the Monday Markets, which attract millions of people every year.

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Speaker 3: Apparently it's one of the Southern Hemisphere's biggest artisan markets,

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Speaker 3: so they have about six hundred stalls on a Wednesday

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Speaker 3: and a Saturday. The setting is just so gorgeous because

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Speaker 3: it's staged under these sprawling fig trees with the most

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Speaker 3: colossal canopy. It's just gorgeous. And the thing is get

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Speaker 3: there early for breakfast because you could just stuff yourself

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Speaker 3: stupid at these markets. I always go straight to the

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Speaker 3: Langosh Caravan Tek. You can't have a better start to

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Speaker 3: the day than with the Langosh, particularly when it's slathered

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Speaker 3: and garlic, paprika, sour cream cheese. Yeah, yeah, that's the starting.

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Speaker 2: Yes, if that's where you're starting, where would you base yourself?

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Speaker 3: Well down the road from your Monday. I stayed in

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Speaker 3: Yandina a couple of weeks ago, and it's a very

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Speaker 3: laid back, leafy township, very central to all of the

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Speaker 3: hinterland draws. If you've ever fancied staying in one of

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Speaker 3: those quintessential country ossie pubs with a big wrap around balcony.

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Speaker 3: The Yandina Hotel is a classic. It's from the eighteen eighties.

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Speaker 3: This pub and from Yandina. One of the best touring

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Speaker 3: routes strung across the hinterland. The fifty five k is

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Speaker 3: called the Blackhall Range route. So grab a rental car

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Speaker 3: and just go crazy on this route because it just

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Speaker 3: tethers all of those villages and lockouts and hiking spots together.

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Speaker 2: Nice. So what would you recommend in terms of national

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Speaker 2: parks if you're like a bit of a stroll.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, the funny thing about Queensland's national parks is

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Speaker 3: they tend to be pocket to parks compared to our

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Speaker 3: national parks, you know, the very sort of short and

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Speaker 3: sweet experiences the two. I really like Mapleton Falls National Park.

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Speaker 3: They've got this really cool trail beer called the one

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Speaker 3: Pi Circuit and it's good for the nose jack because

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Speaker 3: it's heavily scentered with eucalypse, very fragrant, and then it

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Speaker 3: climaxes with this wide curtain waterfall. The Mapleton Falls close

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Speaker 3: by even better Condolilla National Park. If you like your

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Speaker 3: lush rainforest scenery, you will be in heaven and after

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Speaker 3: threading your way through the rainforest. It finishes off at

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Speaker 3: a swimming hole fed by this long drop waterfall. The

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Speaker 3: only sticking point. You will probably be sharing that swimming

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Speaker 3: hole with all sorts of loved up young things filling

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Speaker 3: their Insta feed. So go the day. Yeah, okay, I

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Speaker 3: tell you I was photo bombing so many people.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, no, no, I know exactly, just kind

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Speaker 2: of seen you describing there. So would you say Montfhill

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Speaker 2: is one of Australia's prettiest villages.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it would have to be a hot contender. The

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Speaker 3: moment you're first to lay eyes on the main street

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Speaker 3: of Montfhl, story book is the word that comes to mind.

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Speaker 3: You know, It's just one of those ridiculously adorable townships.

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Speaker 3: It's catnet for tourists, kind of like a gray town

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Speaker 3: or an arrow town Sunshine coastyle. There's a huge creative

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Speaker 3: community in monfl so if you're after some local art,

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Speaker 3: Monful is where you should go. The Monfel Gallery. I

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Speaker 3: just love this gallery. There's over forty local artists who

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Speaker 3: display their wares there, and I mean it spans all

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Speaker 3: art genres. The glass art is really good, the paintings,

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Speaker 3: the landscape and the sea scape paints. They slay me

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Speaker 3: every time. Really impressive.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, nice, Okay. What draws the crowds to Mulaney.

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, further down the black or range, Mulaney is

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Speaker 3: a bumpertown. For foodies, we'll probably talk about food and

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Speaker 3: drink next week, but for artisan producers, Mulaney is just

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Speaker 3: extraordinary in terms of its production. The other interesting aspect

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Speaker 3: to Malaney it seems to attract a lot of cooks.

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Speaker 3: So when you walk down the main street, you feel

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Speaker 3: like you're in the world capital of alternative healing. I

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Speaker 3: passed by businesses offering crystal healing, monica healing, cosmic dieting,

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Speaker 3: whatever the hell that is, aerial hemmer healing which sounds fun,

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Speaker 3: soul breathing, and even indigenous plant based can secures, which

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Speaker 3: I thought was a very big cause. So there is

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Speaker 3: something that everyone in Malaney.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, yeah right, it's one of those kind of crowds.

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Speaker 2: Fair enough, speaking of something for everyone, Mulany's Bird World

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Speaker 2: has the scored a big goal.

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Speaker 3: Yes, trip Advisor has just ranked this as Queensland's number

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Speaker 3: one attraction, which is nothing to sniff at, but just

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Speaker 3: out of town. This is our heads whirl of tropical

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Speaker 3: bird life. So bird World is based at Australia's largest

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Speaker 3: private botanical garden. It's like the mother of all menageriees.

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Speaker 3: So they've got four free flight walk through Avary's and

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Speaker 3: they are throbbing with over seven hundred birds. You feel

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Speaker 3: like you've been imprisoned in a massive menagerie. I have

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Speaker 3: never experienced avyan intensity quite like what you experience at

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Speaker 3: bird World. The parents particularly, they land all over you

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Speaker 3: these boods a legends. So they've got Coco, the eighty

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Speaker 3: five year old Amazon parrot who still raucously sings opera

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 3: So particularly if you're traveling with kids. Yeah, bird World

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Speaker 3: is absolutely unmissible.

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Speaker 2: Oh so good. All right, thank you very much, sir. Well,

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Speaker 2: we're going to make sure all your tips for self

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Speaker 2: driving the Sunshine Coast in the Hinterland and the Sunshine

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Speaker 2: Coast are up on the News Talk's EDB website. We

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Speaker 2: will catch you again next weekend. My Guard the our

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