Whale swim in NSW south coast: with 3AW radio Melbourne
Can you imagine the sound of a pod of racing humpbacks? We’re in the thick of whale season, and Australia’s south and east coasts are pinging with cetaceous shenanigans. Last […]
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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!
Best things to do on the Bellarine Peninsula, Victoria, Australia
In Melbourne, you’re either east or west holidaymaker. Mornington or Bellarine; pick your peninsula. Never both – east is the Mornington Peninsula – a holiday hotspot close to my heart. […]
Travel in Australia: busting myths on 3AW
What travel myths do we tell international visitors about travel in Australia? That Perth is the world’s most isolated capital. That Brisbane is just a big country town? That Melbourne […]
Travelling in Oman: chat with 2GB Sydney radio
I’m recently back from travelling in Oman, the quietest little country in the Middle East. So quiet, you may never have thought of it, or thought to visit. You’re missing […]
Dubai floods & my eyewitness reports
Dubai floods – do those two words even belong together? It’s been a big couple of days, travelling from Melbourne to Muscat via Dubai. I had 36 hours in Dubai […]
My slices of heaven: travel in Turkey & Egypt
Nisanyan was a stone house in rural Turkey, forgotten or ignored for generations and demoted to a lowly stable before its reincarnation into a small, family hotel. Now, the hotel […]
Glamping in Saudi Arabia wins TravMedia’s Travel Writer of the Year award
I’m on a bit of a roll at the moment – this week, in Sydney, I took home a new award, the inaugural TravMedia Travel Writer of the Year! […]
Enter the Year of the Dragon! Celebrate the Lunar New Year in Melbourne
Kung Hei Fat Choi! The Lunar New Year is upon us, and we’re entering into the Year of the Dragon, and not just a dragon, but the wood dragon, which […]
Best new architecture openings in 2024
From Paris to Seoul, Notre-Dame cathedral to a robot-built museum about robots, architecture perves are in for a treat this year. In my round-up of new architecture openings in 2024 […]
