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...
Melbourne has a new subway line – the Metro Tunnel – running through five new stations and currently having a soft opening, before the schedule launches full tilt on 1 February 2026. The new Parkville Station will probably be the most useful new station, since it’s at...
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: ...
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...
In the abandoned ballroom level of the Flinders St Train Station in the centre of Melbourne, Australia-renowned street artist Rone has created Time-Rone an exhibition running until 23 April 2023. It’s not just Rone, he corralled a team of creators with a big budget – ...
© Tony Wheeler’s Travels 2013