The Bali economy is in dire straits but the hospitals are not overflowing and morgues reporting business as usual. Is it luck? Are the statistics lulling us into a false sense of security or could we actually be welcoming tourists back before the year is out?...
Ubud is said to be the kind of place that will either embrace you or “spit you out”. It draws you in with it’s quiet charm and the warm smile of its inhabitants, or it revolts your senses with its dirty roads, potholes, unfinished buildings and the swarm of tourists...
Even after 26 years in Australia the kangaroo still amazes me whenever I see one. On my recent camping trip, after a morning of rain, confined as I was to my little but thankfully dry tent, the skies were clearing and I could get up to meet the world outside. As I...
[Published in The Australian on April 16th, 2016] On my recent road-trip down the NSW coast I camped for a couple of nights at beautiful Diamond Heads in Cowdry National Park. Arriving mid afternoon, having set up my little tent in a peaceful well protected area, I...
I had the opportunity to travel to India in November 2011 – it was essentially a business trip, but the people I met went out of their way to show off their country, and I also had a weekend spent mainly in Agra – the site of the Taj Mahal. The Taj Mahal...