Bass Coast travellers report back on what they have learned from their travels.
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Maddy Harford shares some of her favourite signs from a recent road trip.  Cartoon by Natasha Williams-Novak On a visit to New Zealand, Tim Shannon finds a country that has embraced the Maori culture of sharing.
 Bin nights, school lunches and raw milk vending machines were among the unlikely highlights of Jordan Crugnale’s three-month stay in a small Italian town.
 By Liane Arno
RECENTLY I visited the military cemetery in Mai Chau, Vietnam. Visiting Mai Chau is like stepping back in time. Paddy fields are ploughed with water buffalo guided by men in rolled up trousers thigh deep in mud. Each evening the water buffalo are walked back to sleep underneath the family home. The homes are on stilts where animals shelter under the building and the people climb stairs to sleep under thatched roofs. Women gather leafy vegetables by hand, filling baskets held on their backs by a strap around their foreheads. |