Skyring
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A couple of months ago Qantas launched their Travel Insider e-magazine / social networking site. They had a travel-writing competition to kick it off, where entrants had to write 250 words about an experience that fuelled their love of travel.
I thought about this, and dashed off a paragraph about a delightful experience I'd had in my first days of global roaming back in 2006. Boy, was it hard to cut it down to 250 words. I had to think hard about that.
And when I saw some of the thousands of entries submitted to the contest, I pretty much gave up hope. Qantas has a vast number of experienced, literate, lyrical travellers, and they all had some marvellous stories to tell. Just browsing through them and there were dozens, hundreds of places I had to go.
So it was a pleasant surprise to be informed last week that I'd one a prize. Ninth out of the twelve winners, so I had my choice of four holiday weekends. Dunk Island, Brampton Island, Ayers Rock and Kings Canyon or Ayers Rock 5-star.
They were all tempting, but with my wife along, and only one of the prizes offering a spa treatment, I selected the Ayers Rock Relaxation package.
So thank you, Qantas!
My winning entry is here and you can then click through to the other winners. The first prize winner is a thrilling, pungent, evocative piece of travel writing and I am honoured to be in such company.
A condition of the prize is that I have to write 500 words on the trip, with photographs and video shot on the camera which is a part of the award. It will be devilish hard to find five hundred words on Ayers Rock that haven't been used previously!
I thought about this, and dashed off a paragraph about a delightful experience I'd had in my first days of global roaming back in 2006. Boy, was it hard to cut it down to 250 words. I had to think hard about that.
And when I saw some of the thousands of entries submitted to the contest, I pretty much gave up hope. Qantas has a vast number of experienced, literate, lyrical travellers, and they all had some marvellous stories to tell. Just browsing through them and there were dozens, hundreds of places I had to go.
So it was a pleasant surprise to be informed last week that I'd one a prize. Ninth out of the twelve winners, so I had my choice of four holiday weekends. Dunk Island, Brampton Island, Ayers Rock and Kings Canyon or Ayers Rock 5-star.
They were all tempting, but with my wife along, and only one of the prizes offering a spa treatment, I selected the Ayers Rock Relaxation package.
So thank you, Qantas!
My winning entry is here and you can then click through to the other winners. The first prize winner is a thrilling, pungent, evocative piece of travel writing and I am honoured to be in such company.
A condition of the prize is that I have to write 500 words on the trip, with photographs and video shot on the camera which is a part of the award. It will be devilish hard to find five hundred words on Ayers Rock that haven't been used previously!
Congrats, most well-deserved! 
