Lonely footprints on sandy white beaches, swaying sugar cane fields and an outrageously turquoise sea. I’m starring in my very own travel brochure. Tropical North Queensland is the epitome of life in the slow lane and thankfully, I can’t see it ever speeding up. Where...
Almost exactly halfway between Perth and Albany, the dusty outback town of Wagin toils away beneath a vast expanse of nothingness except for clouds swirling on a background of blue. As the outback scrub gives away to hills of faded gold, the Southern Wheatbelt region...
During Sri Lanka’s Galle Literary Festival in 2011, I was thrilled to meet Candace Bushnell, the author of Sex and the City. The only way to arrive at her Sex in a Sarong party on Taprobane Island was to wade through the sea – it certainly wasn’t the...
Shinju Matsuri is Japanese for ‘Festival of the Pearl’ and Broome celebrates the excitement and romance as a world-renowned producer of South Sea Pearls. The annual pearl festival rekindles a time when the Japanese, Chinese, Malay, Koreans, Filipino and...
The luxurious Hanse Bar It was my first time on a cruise ship, and I must confess I was a reluctant cruiser, even long before the pandemic. The extent of sailing the high (and low) seas includes two-night sojourn aboard a rudimentary cruise ship from Mykonos to Venice...
