I’m a journalist, travel writer, editor and copywriter based in Melbourne, Australia. I write pacy travel features, edit edifying websites and fashion flamboyant copy. My articles and photographs have appeared in publications worldwide, from inflight to interior design: I’ve visited every continent, and have lived in three. Want to work together? Drop me a line…
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!
The view from the Panorama Lounge on decks 8 and 9, MS Midnatsol. This morning was spent eavesdropping on two old fellas from San Diego: from taking photos with Bill […]
The view from deck 9, MS Midnatsol. Photo: Belinda Jackson I have seen the light! The Northern Lights! That shimmering curtain of luminescent green that cloaks the Arctic Circle in […]
The new Astrup Fearnely museum, by too-hot architect Renzo Piano. “I hear it’s a bit of a backwater,” says an unnamed expat living in Sweden, looking across at neighbouring Norway. […]
This is not IKEA, this is Nybrokajen, one of Stockholm’s beautiful waterfront streets. Far more picturesque. Photo: Belinda Jackson. It’s been pretty wet here in Stockholm. I’ve traded Cairo’s sun […]
Temptation personified. Photo: Belinda Jackson On a break from Cairo, here’s a little number from beautiful East Gippsland. If you’re in that neck of the woods (think Lakes Entrance way), […]
Photo: Belinda Jackson The first time I visited the Pyramids, I went through the front door with several hundred other foreigners, all lining up for a photo of ‘kissing’ the […]
At the feet of the gods, Abu Simbel, Egypt. Photo: Belinda Jackson. There’s a lot of change going on in Cairo at the moment, but some things, thankfully, remain the […]
A day spent swimming and patting lion cubs: in all, an excellent day in Egypt. Apologies for the silence, I’ve been offline up on Egypt’s north coast, where I had […]
Sheraton Huzhou Hot Spring Resort, China. Build it and they will come. Or will they? Belinda Jackson rounds up the best newcomers on the architecture scene. Could you visit Paris […]
A young camel for sale in the souk in Nasr City. Cairo’s streets are always crowded, always colourful, but moreso this week, in the lead-up to Eid al-Adha, the great […]