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’ve recorded several podcasts, interviews, conversations recently.
At London Business School Maureen and I recorded Journeys, a conversation with Rajesh Chandy the Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Developing World at the Wheeler Institute. People seemed to enjoy it, someone suggested that we ‘looked like two teenagers our to start an exciting adventure,’ not business like at all.
With Tyrel Cameron Eskelson I talked on his Interlocutor podcast about my travel life, starting in Pakistan when I was a small child right up to travel in recent weeks and for the rest of 2025.
I came through Seattle three times on my great Melboune to London trek. The first time was just a transit stop, my ship docked at the end of my Japan-Alaska cruise and I continued straight on to Vancouver and Vancouver Island in Canada. An Amtrak train brought me back...
My long trip from Melbourne to London started in South Korea and Japan, crossed the Pacific on a cruise ship, dropped in on three towns in Alaska – Kodiak, Sitka and Ketchikan – and ended in Seattle, Washington in the USA. I only paused briefly in Seattle – although I...
▲ Ketchikan, Alaska As we pull in to our final Alaska stop there are already two ships in port – the Diamond Princess, which has overtaken us during the night, and the Celebrity Solstice. Late the Niue Amsterdam, a sister ship to our Westerdam, arrives. W...
▲ Discovery Princess at the Sitka Sound Cruise Terminal . Sitka is our second Alaska stop on my long trek from Melbourne to London. The Sitka cruise terminal is nine km out of town and another cruise ship, the Discovery Princess, arrives minutes after us. I’d woken ...
▲ After our seven day Pacific crossing from Yokohama in Japan we finally made landfall in Kodiak, an island off the south coast of the state of Alaska and at the eastern end of the long string of Aleutian Islands. I’ve been to Kodiak Island once before, back in 2009 w...
▲ My 45 day Melbourne to London trip included, Sydney then Seoul and Busan in South Korea, followed by Fukuoka and Yokohama in Japan, next it was the cruise ship Westerdam for 13 days ending at Seattle on the US West Coast. ▲ The Westerdam waiting for me in Yokoham...
About 40km south-west of Tokyo, Yokohama is the port for Japan’s capital city and the starting point for the trans-Pacific leg of my 45 day trip from Melbourne to London. Once I’d found my way to the correct entry gate Japan’s ever-efficient Shinkansen ‘bullet train’ ...
This is stop four – after Sydney, Seoul and Busan – of my 45 day trip from Melbourne to London. I came across from Busan in South Korea on the high speed Queen Beetle Ferry, a rough trip in high seas and winds. It was not my first trip to Fukuoka although amazi...
After my stay in Seoul, the capital of South Korea, I took the high speed train 330km south to Busan. With a population of 3.4 million it’s the second largest city and a convenient jumping off point for ferries to Japan. I’d been to Busan once before back in 2004 when...
Once I’d left Australia my first stop on my recent travels was Seoul in South Korea. I’ve been to South Korea several times over the years including the trip north to the DMZ between South and North Korea. I’ve also done the DMZ visit travelling south from Pyongyang i...
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