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.
▲ My 45 day Melbourne to London trip included, Sydney then Seoul and Busan in South Korea, followed by Fukuoka and Yokohama in Japan, next it was the cruise ship Westerdam for 13 days ending at Seattle on the US West Coast. ▲ The Westerdam waiting for me in Yokoham...
There are a dozen countries where Covid-19 has yet to arrive, places where there have been zero Covid-19 cases and, therefore, zero Covid-19 deaths? Really? ◄ Given how much bad press the island group gets I was surprised how much I enjoyed my visit to Kiribati. It...
Daniel Smith adds to the list of travel list books – Lonely Planet has certainly done a few of them – with 100 Places You Will Never Visit. In fact some of them you probably won’t want to visit – terrorist would prefer to avoid Guantánamo Bay, ditto for drug smugglers...
Aircraft Names The Qantas A380 fleet is named after famous Australian aviators. Their first A380 was named after Nancy Bird Walton. That was the aircraft which suffered an engine explosion out of Singapore in 2010 and spent over a year on the ground in Singapore b...
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