By the time Tony co-founded Lonely Planet Publications in 1973, he already had the travel bug. And ever since, travel and discovery have been at the heart of his life and career.
I confess, I spend too much time looking at tracking apps – for boats as well as aircraft, what’s that cruise ship/container ship heading out into the bay from Melbourne? I regularly turn to flightradar24 to track a flight, perhaps it’s a visitor coming to stay with u...
I’ve certainly had some travel delays and diversions this year, by sea, by rail and by air, troubles have popped up for every means of travel. A trans-Pacific cruise (yes, me on a cruise ship!) from Yokohama in Japan to Seattle in the USA got delayed and diverted, ...
I’m a sucker for FlightRadar24, that app that lets you track aircraft all over the world or identify whatever might be flying above you right now. Well not quite all over the world, I’ve noted before that flights between the Middle East and Australia tend to disapp...
© Tony Wheeler’s Travels 2013