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.
PSB, the publisher of Lonely Planet guides in French, awarded their ‘2006 Bourse Lonely Planet’ in Paris in late February and I was their to help judge the winner. Bourse translates more-or-less as ‘grant’ in the British university scholarship sense. The ‘Bourse L...
Australia’s Great Ocean Walk only opened for business in late December 2005. So far only a handful of walkers have set out along this spectacular coastal walk. On the last two days of January 2006 I was one of them. The walk stretches for 96km from Apollo Bay to The T...
France comes to Victoria I spent Australia Day – 26 January – at the small Victorian gold rush town of St Arnaud. So how did this town, 250km (150 miles) from Melbourne, end up with a French name? Well it was originally named New Bendigo, after the larger gold rush t...
Signs in 'Engrish' are found in great numbers in both Japan and China. They are always interesting and I found quite a few when I travelled through China in May 2005. This was one of my favourites, instructions for leaving your bag with the security staff at a shopp...
Mobile (cell) phone coverage in Asia and Africa, sim cards and drug dealers, killer insect repellent and airport baggage handling collapse - guess the airport? . Mobile Phones I use an extremely battered old Motorola mobile (cell) phone. It doesn’t take photograp...
Travelling to the Outer Reaches of the Solar System Over two weekends in December Christopher Lansell and Ed Redman, two young Melbourne residents, replicated the Sun and the nine planets of the Solar System along the city’s bayside. At a scale of one billion to one....
Restaurants Some interesting restaurants from the past 12 months. M on the Bund – Shanghai, China In April 2005 I set out to travel by land from Singapore to Shanghai and before I started I decided I was going to mark the end of the trip by dining at M on the...
Hardly surprisingly I read a lot of travel or travel related books, some recent titles 1. Dictators’ Homes (Dictator Style in the USA) – Peter York Amazon USA - Amazon UK Unfortunately the idea – let’s do an Architectural Digest tour of assorted dictators’ and d...
Things I worry about from old growth forest destruction in the Australian state of Tasmania to what Amnesty International has rightly described as ‘a human rights scandal’ in, where else, Guantanamo Bay. Marshalls Shoot & Kill Passenger US Newspaper headline 8...
Tuesday 22 November Day 18 – Timbuktu to Marrakech, Morocco There’s time for a quick tour of Timbuktu in the morning – the Dyingerey Ber Mosque (which we can enter), the Sankore Mosque (which we can’t), a couple of the early European visitors’ houses, the small muse...
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