What to expect when visiting Cairo Airport’s Terminal 2
Over the past decade, I’ve watched Cairo Airport change and grow – definitely for the better – from the raucous taxi chorus and decaying bathrooms of the old Terminal 1 […]
NOTEBOOK
Canter past Patagonian icefields. Sail the tranquil waters of Lake Como in Italy. Sip coffee in a Palestinian village. Listen to the ancient voices of Australia’s Arnhem Land. Climb the mountain paths of northern Albania. Let’s go!
Six of the best beach clubs on Bali’s Bukit Peninsula
Bali’s Bukit Peninsula is a haven for some of the island’s best beach and pool clubs. We tested six of the best (look, someone’s got to do it) for your […]
How to do Abu Dhabi with kids
Play Batman, colour in, or get cool in the pool – Abu Dhabi ticks all the boxes for travelling with kids. I did a test-run with the 7-year-old in the […]
scUber dives into the Great Barrier Reef
It’s been a big week on the Great Barrier Reef, with the launch of the world’s first ridesharing submarine, appropriately named scUber. Uber has teamed up with a baby sub […]
Hilton Manila hotel review
Manila’s traffic is so bad a whole city of airport hotels has sprung up to service airline passengers coming into the city on their way to and from the Philippines’ […]
Perfect pitch at Port Fairy’s Drift House
A long weekend on Victoria’s Great Ocean Drive – it’s the stuff of nightmares. One of Australia’s most popular sightseeing drives, the drawcards are the 12 Apostles (but we all […]
How to pack – a guide
I love a good ‘how to pack’ story, I really do. I love those one-pagers in glossy magazines that have a shirt, hat, watch, book and other pieces of travel […]
How to buy Western Desert art: an exercise in ethics
Recently, I interviewed artist and teacher Nyunmiti Burton. She is based in Tjala Arts in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands, in far northern South Australia. What was striking was […]
Cairo in a nutshell
I’ve been poking around the back alleys and the big-ticket drawcards of Cairo for a decade now (How did that happen? One minute I was setting up this blog on […]
Chasing auroras in Tasmania
A couple of years ago, I found myself standing on the top deck of a Norwegian coastal liner, the Hurtigruten. The night was pitch black, it was way below zero […]