Australia:

Uluru, Yulara, Central Australia

10 May 2025 | Places

Uluru (aka Ayers Rock back in the day) – my multiple visits – I was back to Uluru in April 2025, with a family group, 17 of us, down to newborn baby Molly (definitely her first visit), Veda (aged 6) and assorted others, some on their first visit, some not. For me it w...

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Australian Adventure Travel – Australien Abenteuer Reisen

11 January 2025 | Media

▲ I met Bernd Tesch in Germany – Frankfurt Bookfair of course – back in 1977 (so 48 years ago) when he was promoting his first travel books. There have been many more since including, most recently, Australian Adventure Travel – Australien Abenteuer Reisen – 448 page...

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A Stroll through Sydney

10 July 2023 | Places

I’ve certainly not kept this blog up to date over the last few months, but I’m about to make up for that. My last posting raced along on my 45 day trip from Melbourne to London, a trek which involved train travel in Australia, South Korea, Japan, Canada, USA, Italy, S...

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Norfolk Island

1 March 2023 | Places

It’s a 35 square km patch of Pacific Island, green and lush and about 1600km north-east of Sydney or 1100km north-west of Auckland. The population is a bit over 2000, many of them claiming descent from the Bounty Mutineers who, after kicking William Bligh off HMS Boun...

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Summer in Melbourne

6 February 2023 | Living

The Melbourne daily newspaper The Age asked me to say what summer in the city meant to me. So now that summer is almost over – down here in the southern hemisphere – here it is, my Melbourne Summer. What does a Victorian/Melbourne summer mean to you? – it’s so easy...

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