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.
Last year I spent three days walking the first 90-odd km of the Thames Path, the 215 mile (346km) walking route along the Thames River from its source in Gloucestershire to Oxford and on down through London to the Thames Barrage and the sea. I stayed at the very ordin...
The train trip from Auckland via the volcano-studded centre of the North Island of New Zealand went as planned. As did some museum visits in Auckland. The walk I’d planned at the Tongariro National Park didn’t go so well. . ▲ TEAL Solent ZK-AMO, MOTAT, Auckland . ...
During the course of 2023 I’ve been on trains in 12 different countries – in date order in Australia, South Korea, Japan, Canada, USA, England, Spain, Belgium, France, Monte Carlo, Italy and Switzerland. There could have been a 13th – Bulgaria – but there was a group ...
For a spell from 1988 Remo was a Sydney store run by Remo Giuffré selling weird and wonderful things. Eventually it collapsed, but it’s now come back to life as a twice a year catalog of … well of weird and wonderful things. You can subscribe for A$72 a year. I...
◄ Michael A Cummings quilt, Hunter Dunbar Projects Gallery, West 24th St – we were staying at the Chelsea Hotel on West 23rd St and a block north and three blocks west West 24th St featured a whole block of door-to-door art galleries. I rather liked the quilt art at t...
▲ Iguazu Falls from Brazil – yes they’re wonderful. If you want to compare the Iguazu Falls with Niagara Falls (Canada-USA) or the Victoria Falls (Zambia-Zimbabwe) the Iguaza Falls National Park website has all the comparison figures. I’d also throw the Murchison Fall...
My recent South American travels started in Buenos Aires, crossed the River Plate to Colonia in Uruguay, continued to Fray Bentos, the capital Montevideo and then along the Uruguay beach strip to Punta del Este and José Ignacio before continuing to Asunción the capita...
After crossing the River Plate from Buenos Aires to Colonia I travelled north to Fray Bentos with its history of canned food. Most Brits don’t realise that familiar supermarket brand – Fray Bentos – comes from Uruguay. Next stop was the capital Montevideo from where I...
That high speed Buquebus ferry sailed me across the River Plate from Buenos Aires to Colonia, a delightful place with a strong Spanish colonial flavor and lots of restaurants and cafes – and museums – to attract day-tripping Argentinians. ◄ City Gate, Porton de Cam...
Before I met Maureen in New York and stayed in two interesting hotels – The Chelsea and the TWA Hotel – I had two weeks in South America. Catching up with two countries – Uruguay and Paraguay – which I would have visited in 2020, if that pandemic hadn’t come along. ...
© Tony Wheeler’s Travels 2013