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.
Having ticked off Christmas Island I continued another hour’s flight west across the Indian Ocean (and another 30 minutes time change) to the Cocos Keeling Islands, 1000km away. There are 27 islands around the Cocos Keeling Atoll, but only two of them are inhabited. W...
There are a number of Christmas Islands around the world, this one is an Australian territory technically part of Western Australia with a population of about 1700. Straight line it’s only 500km south of Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, but the only flights to Chris...
There are lots of places still to visit on my travel bucket list and Greenland is certainly one of them. In recent weeks Taco Trump has emphasised that it could be important to get there sooner rather than later. After all if Trump succeeds in invading Greenland we co...
I was briefly in Northern Ireland in June 2025 for a family wedding – Maureen’s family – there was one in 2024 as well. My plan to walk the spectacular Gobbins Cliff Path, north of Belfast, while I was there fell through because the walk was closed due to a 'recent ro...
My trip through the Mustang region of Nepal up to Lo Manthang – part 1 and part 2 – was bookended by stays in the Kathmandu Valley and a brief stop in Pokhara. I wasn’t planning or expecting to see anything new, my visit was just a reminder of familiar places and inte...
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