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.
At the Ubud Writers Festival in Bali last month I did a Wanderlust travel panel with three other writers and a women in the audience drew us: • Jamie James – chairs the session, a former New Yorker writer who now runs a restaurant in Seminyak, along the coast fro...
Brian Thacker has written a bunch of books (check his website for the full story) and is currently working on a new one, following my original trail around Southeast Asia. It’s been 34 years since Maureen and I spent a year exploring the region to write the very f...
It’s got to be the ultimate tourist trip, blasting off on a Russian Soyuz up to the International Space Station for a couple of weeks of circling the earth every 93 minutes. Want to go? Well call Space Adventures for your booking, a ticket is US$30 million plus and yo...
Northern Tip I spent a week travelling around Newfoundland’s Northern Peninsula, the northern tip of Canada’s island province. Some highlights: L’Anse aux Meadows Vikings ▼ L’Anse aux Meadows Right at the northern tip of the northern tip is the site of t...
Moose from my car window ▼ Our Canada book sums up the Newfoundland moose situation: ‘Moose are vegetarians, eating about 22kg of twigs and shrubs a day. Newfoundlanders are not vegetarians, eating about 22,000 moose a year.’ I took this moose photograph after I’d ...
St Pierre and where? OK it’s another of those little corners of France, secreted away in odd corners around the world, supported by lots of euros sent over from Paris, speaking French and existing in another entirely parallel universe. I was a little bit concerned ...
Some of the best travel experiences are wildlife encounters and I’ve been lucky enough to have some classic ones – rhinos in Nepal, elephants in Africa, the Komodo dragons, turtles hatching out at Heron Island on the Great Barrier Reef, an amazing gorilla encounter ...
The Melbourne Solar System project launches on Sunday 21 September. It’s a 1:1 billion scale model of our Solar System, stretching along the Melbourne bayside from the Sun by St Kilda Marina to lonely Pluto, 5.9km away beyond Port Melbourne. The project has bee...
It’s taken a while to arrive in the UK market, but it will be in UK bookshops this week. The publisher is Crimson and it retails for £9.99. Once While Travelling is a combination of autobiography, travel story and business book. It kicks off with how Maure...
Sometimes missing your flight (or more accurately having Virgin Blue Airlines cancel it) can lead to an interesting change of plans. Last month I was talking about adventure travel at the Byron Bay Writers Festival first thing in the morning and then, in late aftern...
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