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NORTHERN DELIGHTS - WINING, DINING AND CHILLING IN YAMBA

EXPERTS are predicting that Australians will continue to holiday at home more even though international travel has opened up again. Not to mention the joy of hitting the open road after months of lockdown in Sydney and Melbourne. My first trip out of town was to Yamba, the increasingly popular beach town about 120 kilometres south of Byron Bay.

Many ill-informed writers claim that Yamba has only recently become "the new Byron". Hardly. There has been a millionaires' row overlooking the town’s pristine beaches for nearly 20 years and houses routinely sell in excess of $2 million and up to $4.6 million. The sort of cafe culture and food scene that flows from the arrival of more moneyed

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