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Sunday, 17 August 2025

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.

Bicycles & the Amy Gillett Foundation

16 July 2020 | Transport

Amy Gillett was an Australian athlete – she rowed for Australia in the 1996 Olympics in the USA before switching to cycling. She was tragically killed in a training accident in Germany in 2005. Named after her the Amy Gillett foundation works for cycling safety in Aus...

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My New Neighbours – Tawny Frogmouths in Melbourne

4 July 2020 | Living

Glaring resolutely down at me from a tree just across the fence from my backyard was what I took at first to be an owl. In fact it was a tawny frogmouth. The next day it had moved to a different perch and was still keeping a close eye on me, but now accompanied by a s...

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Poppies in Kuta Beach, Bali – really hit by the Covid-19 Pandemic – and how to help

21 June 2020 | Living

The Covid-19 Pandemic continues to rage with some countries – pretty much all of Europe – getting the numbers down while in others – like most of South America – the numbers are still climbing dramatically. Plus there are fears of ‘second waves’ showing up. The econom...

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The Winton Wetlands & more Silo Art

19 June 2020 | Places

Silo art has become an attraction all over rural Australia in the last few years. Check this website for an excellent overview of the story all over the continent. In April last year I spent two days following the silo art trail in the Wimmera region in the north-west...

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Souvenirs – an Australian Stammtisch

10 June 2020 | Culture

Souvenirs are an important part of travel and over the years I’ve bought some truly terrible souvenirs. Most of them, I’m glad to say, precisely because they were truly terrible. You know the process: ‘Oh my God, that is absolutely awful. I must buy it.’ Most of my re...

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Revenge of the Sheep – or Sheep Schadenfreude

28 May 2020 | Living

Australia still has borders closed between some of the states and there’s much discussion over when they will open or if it’s even legal to keep a border closed. When there’s talk of a ‘Trans-Tasman Bubble’ between Australia and New Zealand – separated by the Tasman S...

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More Locked Down in Melbourne – and my virus test

25 May 2020 | Living

Well I’ve posted about where I haven’t been going, about my empty city of Melbourne and where I have been travelling recently – walking and cycling along Melbourne’s Yarra River. ▲ And visiting Melbourne’s Tullamarine Airport. It was a rare opportunity to see a de...

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Walking & Cycling up Melbourne’s Yarra River

19 May 2020 | Places

Of course international travel has completely shut down and in Australia even domestic travel doesn’t extend very far. We really can’t travel interstate at the moment. So I’ve been walking and cycling along the Yarra River, the river which runs, from source to sea, fo...

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Where I haven’t been & what I am doing instead: looking at the figures

30 April 2020 | Living

◄ Today I should be in Fray Bentos in Uruguay – of course I’m not, I’m locked down at home. To Brits and Australians it’s a familiar name associated with tinned meat pies. They’re made by Campbell’s Soup in Australia while in the UK the name, according to Wikipedia, ‘...

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Stirling Moss, Travel, Motor Racing

26 April 2020 | Living

Spending so much time studying the coronavirus statistics it’s almost a relief that Sir Stirling Moss – ‘the greatest driver never to win the World Championship’ – was taken by straightforward old age on 12 April 2020, at 90 years old. ▲ I had a spell following mot...

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