Culture, Montreal, upgrades, asparagus and Canberra

First up, we're delving into a bit of culture on this week's travel radio show - our Geelong-based Aussie travel guru, John Crook has news of a forthcoming classical concert in Melbourne. From our US-sister program, Around the World, Arthur von Wiesenberger chats with blue whales expert Richard Sears about Montreal (Canada). Yours truly reveals survey results on how Aussies obtain (or, more to the point, most of the time fail to) those elusive ’upgrades’ on airline seats and hotel rooms. French-based contributor Frances Beasley’s topic this week is the humble asparagus. To close the book on this week’s show, John Crook visits the National Library in Canberra. Click this link to listen

PODCAST: Around the World #09-09

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CRN (Australia) broadcast date: March 3, 2009

Program details:

• John Crook sends an audio postcard from Hobart’s historic Theatre Royal.
• Frances Beasley has some useful tips for ’stormy travel’ in Europe.
• Arthur von Wiesenberger and Richard Mineards chat with gonomad.com editor Max Hartshorne about eco-tourism in the Cancun region of Mexico.
• John Crook highlights Canada as he firstly interviews Kim Hood about the forthcoming Winter Olympics at Whistler and then chats with Mark André Gemme of Montreal Tourism.