To my mind, the Northern Italian lakes offer some of the most spectacular scenery in Italy — placid waters, centuries... Read More
Adelaide is hot, both literally and figuratively. This was abundantly clear during our visit in February when the mercury soared... Read More
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Perhaps the biggest challenge of travelling in New Zealand is inventing a whole new set of superlatives to describe the... Read More
Though Bougainville Island has been settled for tens of thousands of years, the past century has undoubtedly been its most... Read More
People were astonished to hear I was taking my children to Oman, but having travelled a lot in the Middle... Read More
Vodka and the Volga, Beluga caviar and the Bolshoi Ballet, Communism and cathedrals – Russia is, as Winston Churchill described... Read More
Last year Las Vegas casino owner Steve Wynn paid over US$28 million for a life-size sculpture of Popeye created by... Read More
Only a three-hour flight away from Auckland, the Gold Coast-Byron Bay area offers so much more than sea, surf, sand... Read More
What, exactly, is the attraction of mountain tops? “The danger of climbing mountains is part of what makes it a... Read More
The largest collection of fresh water in Southeast Asia is Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake. Its banks support three million people,... Read More
