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! […]
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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!
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 […]
Saudi Arabia on a plate
Camel kebabs, gold-flecked savoury porridge, shakshuka, mint tea, green coffee and lots and lots of dates. Eating in Saudi Arabia is an adventure in its own right. I recently wrote […]
Mindful travel in Nepal & Hiking with refugees
Walking slowly in silence in the Nepalese Himalayas is just one of the ways travel writer Nina Karnikowski says we can embrace mindful travel. Belle talks to Nina about taking […]
Nominations for the Australian Society of Travel Writers’ awards 2023
Good things come in – whatever size, shape or form you’d like. But today, I have news of two very good things, I’ve received two nominations in the 2023 Australian […]
Hunting Australia’s alternative wines & softcore wellness in south-east Asia
Where do you go to step off the beaten track of wine – away from the unholy trinity of chardonnay, shiraz and sauvignon blanc? Author and wine writer Max […]