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.
Geoff Nicholson’s amusing and illuminating ramble through the history of walking starts with a useful quote: ‘Walking isn’t a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.’ Having got that clarification out of the way Nicholson proceeds to walk around Los A...
Chiang Kai-shek Memorial statue in Taipei, Taiwan What do you do with an unwanted statue? Or a whole bunch of them? Erecting statues of your wonderful self is a time honoured pursuit of unloved dictators and merciless despots. You can judge how horribly unpopu...
© Tony Wheeler’s Travels 2013