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.
About 40km south-west of Tokyo, Yokohama is the port for Japan’s capital city and the starting point for the trans-Pacific leg of my 45 day trip from Melbourne to London. Once I’d found my way to the correct entry gate Japan’s ever-efficient Shinkansen ‘bullet train’ ...
This is stop four – after Sydney, Seoul and Busan – of my 45 day trip from Melbourne to London. I came across from Busan in South Korea on the high speed Queen Beetle Ferry, a rough trip in high seas and winds. It was not my first trip to Fukuoka although amazi...
A few years ago I travelled London to Melbourne in about 28 days, all of it on flights of just an hour or two by Low Cost Carriers, airlines like Ryanair, easyJet, Pegasus, Fly Dubai, IndiGo or Air Asia. Now I’ve just arrived in London from Melbourne, a trip that t...
A Wakayama University conference on Overtourism – Tourism in Troubled Times – took me to Japan and, on the side, a little exploration of the Kii Peninsula. That’s the finger of Japan pointing south from big city Osaka and cultural centre Kyoto, down to Cape Shionomisa...
Ruth Ozeki’s mysterious novel was a short list contender for the 2013 Booker Prize. The other 2013 contender I’ve read was Colum McCann’s TransAtlantic, which only made the long list. I was particularly interested in that one because of its connections with the first ...
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