holidays

28th August 2010:
 
Mabel and Mike present their Top 3 dream vacation places.
 
Mike thinks Mabel is totally crazy when he hears one of her dream vacation places.

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Hot Pot Podcast Aug 28 Top 3 Dream Vacations Part 2.mp3

(Photo: Beau Donelly)

Following up on yesterday's story on the bloody Bankok protests, would you still travel to Thailand?

There have been constant violent clashses as demonstrators protest the elitist government. DFAT has advised Australian travellers to reconsider their need to go there.

Phoebe Roth asks a traveller who was all set to head over, and a local travel agent, if it will affect the thousands of Aussies that go there every Summer.

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Thai Tourism - SYNcast.mp3

The volcano that goes by everyone's favourite name - Eyjafjallajökull - has left 20,000 Australians stranded overseas.

More than one month on, have these people been reimbursed for their cancelled flights and extra expenses under their travel insurance policy, or is it, as some insurers are saying, an "act of God?"

Hayley Crane, Callum Moore and Nick Toscano report.

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Eyjafjallajokull - SYNcast.mp3