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.
New Paint? Just flown to New York with American Airlines, who are currently making a song and dance about new aircraft, new style – all the advantages of going bankrupt. They do have a new colour scheme, since Day 1 American Airlines aircraft have not been painted – ...
Maureen and I went along to the Whitley Fund for Nature’s annual awards at the Royal Geographical Society on Thursday night. The winners were: ● John Kahekwa – gorillas in Democratic Republic of the Congo – I’d looked up which gorilla family we bumped into on my go...
It’s coming up for its 40th birthday in October this year, the very first Lonely Planet guidebook resulted from the trip Maureen and I made across Asia in 1972. We drove an old Minivan from London to Afghanistan, sold it in Kabul and continued by whatever form of ...
Flying from Verona in Italy to London Gatwick in England I could look north from my British Airways 737 window seat and see just how close England (on the left) is to France (on the right).
And Other Adventures in the World’s Most Polluted Places is the subtitle for Andrew Blackwell’s worldwide jaunt around a collection of destinations not on most people’s next vacation wish list. Although curiously sunny Chernobyl seems to be becoming a favourite for da...
I spent the weekend in Trento, an hour north of Verona and a jumping off point for the Dolomite mountains of the Alto Adige or South Tyrol region. I spend a week walking in the region back in 2002. I was speaking at the annual Trento Film Festival, it’s been going on ...
I seem to have an ongoing involvement with Lonely Planet, even though Maureen and I sold out of the business several years ago. We have become involved with another publishing house – Text Publishing in Melbourne, Australia. A number of books from Text have appeared o...
I made a quick trip from Australia to New Zealand to speak at a TEDx conference in Queenstown in early April. Unfortunately I didn’t have a chance to do anything apart from the conference – I’ve got some New Zealand walks which remain high on my must do list. ▲...
▲ A British Airways 747s at Heathrow and A Qantas 747 at Melbourne ▼ A recent story in The Independent forecast the departure of British Airway’s 747, Boeing’s jumbo has been in service since 1970, but they’re rapidly disappearing. Singapore Airlines has go...
I’ve recently joined the board of Global Heritage Fund – my trips last year to the amazing ruins of Banteay Chhmar in Cambodia and earlier this year to the Lost City, Ciudad Perdida, in Colombia were both to GHF sites. GHF are launching a new project, to protec...
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