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.
Every year there are some great views I glimpse out of an airplane window and as usual, when I look back on a previous year’s travels, I’ll quote Joan Didion ‘the most beautiful things I had ever seen had all been seen from airplanes.’ ▲ Hard to beat this one and t...
All the airline routes that follow are from FlightRadar24’s wonderful website. I commented recently on Ryanair 4978 from Athens, Greece to Vilnius, Lithuania doing a little westward jog approaching or departing Vilnius to avoid crossing Belarus airspace. That’s a r...
I thought I’d added Bali to my ‘not going there again’ list, along with Israel and Saudi Arabia. I’m putting Bali on that list because the traffic is so absurdly intolerable and despite tourist money flooding in for decades the Indonesians have done nothing about it. ...
▲ My 1959 Cadillac on Route 66 I’ll probably never buy another car – unless it’s for doing something, over the years I’ve bought a 1959 Cadillac (to drive across the USA west-east and later east-west 1994). ▲ A 1989 Mitsubishi Lancer to drive from Plymouth (in E...
All three forms of transport featured in my 2024 travels and I posted a blog on my my favourite tube stations around the London underground train system. ▲ Trains no longer stop in Marceline, Missouri although lots of visitors come there for the Walt Disney Museum ...
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