Five things to do in Australia’s Grampians
Hiking, wildlife spotting, Aboriginal culture and wine — a few of my favourite things in Victoria’s Grampian Mountains.
Read moreHiking, wildlife spotting, Aboriginal culture and wine — a few of my favourite things in Victoria’s Grampian Mountains.
Read moreA trip to an underwater cave in the middle of an island pushes the author’s most basic fear buttons.
Read moreVibrant coral reefs, lush rainforests, other-worldly landscapes created by active volcanoes, extraordinary homegrown religions untouched by missionaries, and some of the happiest people on Earth – welcome to Vanuatu.
Read moreAmerican Samoa is just a short hop from Apia in the other Samoa, yet it’s so far off the Kiwi traveller’s radar it might as well be on another planet. But if you do end up in the only US territory south of the Equator, what can you do there? I decided to find out.
Read moreIn 1976 Paul Thomas promised his mother he would bring his brother’s remains home. In 2018 he finally succeeded.
Read moreOne of my favourite experiences during my last visit to Romania involved a chance encounter with a shepherd, a pack of singing sheepdogs and a 19th-century-style road crash involving a horse-drawn cart.
Read moreAmerican Samoa is so far under the radar even well-travelled friends looked at me blankly when I told them where I was going.
Read moreKoala love-calls provide the sound track along the coast-hugging, 100km Great Ocean Walk in Victoria, Australia.
Read moreThe two biggest biggest wine cellars in the world are in … France? Italy? California’s Napa Valley? The former Soviet republic of Moldova? The answer might surprise you.
Read moreMy pick of best and worst accommodation ranging from a flash eco-resort to a chicken coop.
Read moreThe phone booth has, tragically, become an endangered species — hence my mission to preserve these once ubiquitous features of our urban landscape through photography.
Read moreYour long-haul flight is touching down in Dubai and you want a stopover – but do you stay in the United Arab Emirates or head to nearby Oman? Here’s my verdict.
Read moreMost Pacific islands lure visitors with promises of sun-soaked beaches — but on Atiu one of the biggest attractions is a place where the sun never shines.
Read moreOnce a year Ethiopia’s Christians celebrate what they say was the discovery of Christ’s cross more than 1600 years ago. All over the country they dress in brightly coloured robes, dance, sing, pray and build towering bonfires.
Read moreNothing was going to stop me seeing one of Africa’s most colourful festivals — or so I thought.
Read moreA colourful, mountainous, densely populated country in the heart of Africa, Rwanda has made enormous strides since the 1994 genocide.
Read moreA photographic journey through one of the most fascinating countries on the planet, including the 12th century rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, the colourful eastern city of Harar, and the spiritual epicentre of Axum — legendary home of the Ark of the Covenant.
Read moreA guide to cycling around Savai’i, the bigger, less developed and more chilled-out of Samoa’s two main islands.
Read moreWhat makes a group of Dutch students so passionate about Māori culture that they travel halfway around the world each year to take part in Waitangi Day festivities?
Read moreHow I ended up with a piece of the Czech president’s flag.
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