Woman In….

The “Woman In…” page features guest writers. You can be one of them.

Have you travelled somewhere, whether in Australia or elsewhere, that you loved or found particularly memorable?

Has your travel experience been something other women would find of interest?

If you can describe a rich travel experience, adventure or activity and want to share it with us, we would love to read your story and see photos.

To submit your story and photos for publication on WomanGoingPlaces, please email them to [email protected]. Successful submissions will receive notification. We are unable to respond to unsuccessful submissions, but thank you for your time and effort.

Please note that “Woman In…” are personal travel stories. Commercially motivated posts, paid blogs or stories for advertising purposes will not be accepted.

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Woman In…Outback Australia: Camooweal, Queensland

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Right across the top of Australia, old drovers are rolling their swags because it is time to head to Camooweal for their annual reunion at the Drover’s Camp Festival held every year on the 4th weekend in August. This event commemorates the droving tradition when Camooweal was the centre for the largest cattle drives the world has ever seen.

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Woman In …. Paris

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Two girlfriends and I were sitting outside a suburban Melbourne  café, toasting a recent birthday. The sun was shining and we had a scenic view of the Yarra River. We were surrounded by majestic trees, colourful cyclists, and energetic rowers. In a very off-hand manner my friends mentioned that they were both thinking of going […]

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Woman In…. Esperance, West Australia

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Esperance is a seaside town on the south-eastern coast of West Australia. To get there, my daughter and I set off on a road trip from Perth, and in one day, drove 730 kilometres through the lower belly of West Australia.

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Our Woman In….Havana

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One of my favourite ways to prepare for travel to a country, particularly one that is off the beaten track, is to read the country’s literature and newspapers. So before heading to Cuba earlier this year, I downloaded Everyone leaves (Todos se van), by contemporary Cuban author, Wendy Guerra. The book was set between 1978 […]

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Woman In … Lake Balaton, Hungary

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Woman travelling with extended family. With two grown-up sons, their partners  and a grandson living in London England, my base being a couple of hundred miles north of that, and a husband working in Hong Kong, it’s hard to get us all together for an extended piece of family time away from the day-to-day (i.e. […]

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Woman In…Patagonia

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“Oh, that’s impossible, I can’t do that!” This is what I would have said, if I had known what I was about to embark on beforehand. But I didn’t know. And so, when my daughter asked me to go with her to Patagonia, I agreed. Although this remote part of Argentina and Chile had never […]

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