Travel

In this week's Reader Postcard Gary Marks masters the uncomfortable art of camel-riding on a incredible desert safari in northwest India:

"The beasts were particularly unfazed to see us on arrival....

Continental Airlines has joined the trend towards charging coach, or economy, passengers for seats with extra legroom.

Never smile at a crocodile, they reckon. But blowing bubbles at them is another thing entirely, James Shrimpton, of AAP, reports.

In this weeks Reader Postcard K.M. Baynes (of Waimate) hits the high seas to experience the unique birdlife of Campbell Island: