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 […]
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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!
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 […]
Winner: ASTW Travel Writer of the Year!
I am so very, very, very pleased to tell you that I have been named Travel Writer of the Year 2023 by the Australian Society of Travel Writers (ASTW)! The ASTW […]
Rebuilding Maui & Life in Bhutan
This week on The World Awaits podcast… rebuilding Maui and life in Bhutan. Click here to listen to the latest episode of our travel podcast. Did you know there are […]