A different side of Egypt: from Alexandria to Marsa Matruh
So I stuffed photographer and a crate of beer in a red 1975 Landcruiser and we aimed for Libya. Here’s the result… :Away from the famous sites and Red Sea […]
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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!
Animal kingdom in city streets
“Do we have any respect for animals?” was the theme of one conversation at a lunch on Friday at the fabulous Circa restaurant here in Melbourne. The question came up […]
Red light alert: Jakarta on sale
All the world loves a bargain and Jakarta is currently on sale. Armed with a handful of adept and hardened shoppers, I tottered behind them, from store to store, their […]
Team Orange gets a guernsey
As you can tell, it’s all football in this household at the moment, although some of us are welcoming the break before the serious games start. Take a look at […]
Shower power and the Jakarta jam
It’s said Jakarta’s traffic is some of the worst in the world – which is a big call when you’re considering Manila, Bangkok and lovely Cairo. If this sweeping statement […]
Flushed with success in Jakarta
So a group of us go into this amazing five-star hotel in Jakarta and we’ve all got massive suites that are twice the size of my Melbourne apartment. The food […]
World Cup fever diluted to a sniffle in Oz…
Some may thing we Aussies don’t do football. Maybe because sports commentators continue to refer to it as ‘the round-ball game’, not to get mixed up with rugby and Australia’s […]
Making sense of Marrakech
If you love nothing more than to be lost in an open-air market for days at a time, then Marrakech is your soul town. Markets aside, there’s also fabulous food, […]
The spice of life…from Canada (yes, Canada)
The worst thing about writing shopping stories while travelling is constantly finding things you MUST MUST have. Which then leads to such scenarios as storage units full of stuff and […]
Hot to shop: Hong Kong
See the pros in action in one of the world’s greatest retail meccas, Hong Kong. How to compress shopping in Hong Kong into 600 words? Physically impossible. But you’ve got […]