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- The Petrified Waterfalls of Mexico’s Hierve el Agua
- Plokstine, Lithuania – Europe’s brush with the Apocalypse
- Six of the Best St Petersburg Wonders
- The Mighty Kiel Canal
- Cape Town’s Kirstenbosch – the world’s best botanical garden?
- My travel story ‘Snails in the Mist’ wins Lane Cove Literary Award 2019
- Boulders Beach – Cape Town’s cutest critters
- The Baltic States Rise Again
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- Abu Simbel – Saved from the Flood
- Stavanger’s Undersea Black Gold
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- Norway’s Bergen – Australian composer Percy Grainger meets Edvard Grieg
- Trondheim – Of Saints and Sinners
- Block of Ages – Egypt’s Unfinished Obelisk
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- Norway – the social experiment that worked
- Luxor – Flirting with danger
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- The Nile – river of antiquity
- Hiking Norway’s fabled Pulpit Rock
- An Enchanting Tuscan Walk
- The Italian town destroyed by an “inland tsunami”
- Egypt’s Tomb Raiders
- A little cycle along the Danube
- The Journey Continues … Tutankhamun’s treasures on the move
- Nile-high club – hot air ballooning over Luxor
- Europe’s Amazing E-bike Cycling Revolution
- Famous Franconians
- Transports of Delight
- Egypt’s glorious historic hotels
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- Paradise Found – seven writers choose their heaven on earth
- Majestic Imperator – the royal train
- Miltenberg – Germany’s best preserved town?
- Salzburg and The Sound of Music
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- The Panama Canal – an engineering feat
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- Bonn – the town that became Germany’s post-war capital
- Room with a View – little Venice hotel with a rare feature
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- Haarlem – Little Amsterdam
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- Life and Death in the Kgalagadi
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- Hydra, art island
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- Budapest, city of markets
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- The Rhine Gorge – River of Dreaming
- A Princely Vienna Palace
- Crossing the Continental Divide by river cruise
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Vietnam Past and Present – In the footsteps of the war
The Vietnam War reached its bloody crescendo 50 years ago and its veterans have marched into history’s pages. Yet an observant traveller to this lovely shape-shifting country cannot escape that war. It permeates the national personality as profoundly as Honda … Continue reading
Vietnam Airlines business class flight test
Or read the link on Traveller.com.au: https://www.traveller.com.au/flight-test-ho-chi-minh-city-to-sydney-vietnam-airlines-787-business-class-h1lxek
The Petrified Waterfalls of Mexico’s Hierve el Agua
What boils and is cold enough to touch? What flows and is motionless? What is ancient but constantly renewing? What freezes in blazing heat? Solve the riddle and you will arrive at a sacred place – the petrified waterfalls of … Continue reading
Plokstine, Lithuania – Europe’s brush with the Apocalypse
These days, the woodlands, meadows and lakes of Lithuania’s Zemaitija National park are a natural paradise. But deep in the forest, one of the Soviet Union’s first Cold War missile sites is a chilling reminder of Europe’s brush with the … Continue reading
Six of the Best St Petersburg Wonders
Peter the Great’s visionary city is a masterpiece. In 1702, seeking a Baltic outlet and disliking Moscow’s unplanned chaos, he fashioned a grandly elegant capital. Here’s my story on the six must-see wonders of St Petersburg published in The Sydney … Continue reading
The Mighty Kiel Canal
Petite canals enliven cities like Amsterdam, St Petersburg, Bruges and Venice but there’s nothing quite like a big canal. These giant shipping channels sculpt the landscape, connecting oceans, separating continents and joining rivers. Here’s my story on the Kiel Canal … Continue reading
Cape Town’s Kirstenbosch – the world’s best botanical garden?
The world boasts many exquisite botanical gardens – Canada’s Butchart Gardens on Vancouver Island, London’s Kew Gardens, Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay, Rio’s Jardim Botanico, our own Sydney or Melbourne Royal Botanic Gardens, to name a few. Picking the best … Continue reading
My travel story ‘Snails in the Mist’ wins Lane Cove Literary Award 2019
My travel story Snails in the Mist about a group of friends walking New Zealand’s Milford Track, has won the Lane Cove Literary Awards’ Burns Bay Bookery Prize for 2019. The Lane Cove Literary Awards are open to writers around … Continue reading
Boulders Beach – Cape Town’s cutest critters
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that South Africa offers astonishing wildlife. Generally, you enter game reserves to view it. Cape Town’s Boulders Beach offers something more – the chance to live among a colony of tiny African Penguins. These little … Continue reading
The Baltic States Rise Again
Lovely old Europe, once vibrant, feels dog-tired, swamped by tourists and in need of a good lie down. But not the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania that embrace the east coast of the Baltic Sea. Like the Baltic … Continue reading
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