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.
▲ The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson The Archives, Design Museum, London – I always enjoy exhibits at the Design Museum in Kensington and this was one of the best. Well up there with Stanley Kubrick, another favourite film director’s exhibition in 2019. The Archi...
Places I've been to in London recently ▲ The Chelsea Arts Club – I’ve applied for membership – regularly repaints its street frontage, recently it was hot air balloons – they were called ‘montgolfiers’ when I bought a model one in Genoa. ▲ Karl Marx was here – I...
◄ Until 28 January 2026 the British Library has an intriguing exhibition about ‘secret maps.’ Maureen and I were involved in getting the exhibition off the ground and I’m there with the Secret Maps poster at the British Library. As the library’s website announces i...
Every year there are some great views I glimpse out of an airplane window and as usual, when I look back on a previous year’s travels, I’ll quote Joan Didion ‘the most beautiful things I had ever seen had all been seen from airplanes.’ ▲ Hard to beat this one and t...
My 2024 travels featured walking in Australia (The Three Capes Track in Tasmania) and England (The Thames Path). My English travels also took me to that very popular tourist county of Cornwall. Before arriving in England I visited three interesting African countries: ...
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