“Do you want to go to Sydney to cover a Rolling Stones exhibition and a Star Wars exhibition?” So came the question from my editor and if memory serves me correctly, I gave my first ‘yes’ at “Sydney”, my second ‘yes’ at “Rolling”, and was up to about ‘yes’ number six or seven by the…
Category: Australia
Sampling High-Rise Airbnb Luxury In Melbourne… While Dressed As Worzel Gummidge
Who flies all the way to another country for a themed dress-up birthday party and gets the theme wrong? It’s a question I’ll most likely ask myself for the rest of my life, though the answer is easy: me. But how did this travesty happen!? It was my dear friend Georgie’s 30th bash in Melbourne…
The Most Remote Music Fest In The World: Backstage At The Big Red Bash With John Farnham & Daryl Braithwaite – My Top 50 Photos
In July I was invited to the deepest depths of the Australian Outback to cover the self-described “most remote music festival in the world”, Queensland’s Big Red Bash. With John Farnham the headline act and fellow Aussie baby boomer star Daryl Braithwaite also on the bill, I went to the towering sand dunes on the…
Great Southern Land: The Soundtrack To An Aussie Outback Road Trip – My NZ Herald Article
On Monday I’ll be returning to the Queensland Outback so here’s a recent piece of mine the New Zealand Herald published about my ‘roo-dodging, Aussie-soundtracked road trip there back in 2016: New Zealand Herald, May 6, 2018: ‘Brisbane – Way beyond the beach’ As the title suggests, this was “way beyond the beach”. As in,…
Indoor Skydiving, Jet Skiing & Rainforest Adventures On The Gold Coast – My Herald Article + Top 50 GC Photos
A couple of weeks back the Herald On Sunday published hands down the least flattering photo of me ever seen in a newspaper, but it’s OK. I was lamely trying to adjust my goggles while indoor skydiving on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. In the process I looked like a puffed-up blimp with the…
Sydney In Springtime – My Top 50 Photos + My Concrete Playground Feature Article
One Central Park in Chippendale, as seen from the top of The Old Clare Hotel. My article in Concrete Playground about me feeling a teeny bit jealous of Sydney – 100 Hours In Sydney: A Trifecta Of Restaurants, Hassle-free Golf & Plant-Tastic Skyscrapers – has just been published. If you’re new to Concrete Playground, it’s…
Barry Gibb: ‘Bury me on Moreton Island’ – In The Now With Tim Roxborogh Part 5
Barry Gibb as he appears on his new album. Hearing Barry Gibb talk about where he wants to be buried – even if he chuckled as soon as he said it – seems significant to me. So with that in mind, here is part 5 of my transcribed interview series with him ahead of tomorrow’s…
Dodging Kangaroos: NZ Herald Queensland Outback Road Trip + My Top 60 Photos, Incl 19th Century Mansions, Farm Stays, Rainforests, Mud Baths & Statues Of The Bee Gees
The view from Bunya Mountains National Park. My longest ever published travel article was in Tuesday’s New Zealand Herald – a 3000-word epic about a Queensland road trip I did in May. Given I drove more than 2000ks, it seemed appropriate to go whoppingly large for this piece – I hope you like it! The…
My NZ Herald Room Check Article: Royal Mail Hotel, Dunkeld, Rural Victoria
Royal Mail Hotel, Dunkeld, Victoria* Almost a year ago I stayed in a town in rural Victoria so small that the hotel is essentially the entire town. With only 461 people calling Dunkeld home, a substantial chunk of that number have some connection to the historic Royal Mail Hotel. If you click here you can…
Bee Gees Way Favourite Photos – Redcliffe, Queensland 2016
Here are my favourite photos from Bee Gees Way in Redcliffe, about 30-minutes drive north of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia. I was there on Saturday night as part of travel writing trip for the New Zealand Herald, promoting tourism to southern Queensland and in particular, “Queensland Big Sky Country” self-drive adventures. You can see more…
My Top 50 Favourite Photos Of 2015 – A Travel Writer’s Year In Review Including Fiji, Australia, Malaysia & New Zealand
Monkey Bay, Tioman Island, Malaysia. 2015 had me swashbuckling / cramping up embarrassingly through Malaysian jungles, spearfish snorkeling / ripping my swim-shorts in the butt-crack region in Fiji and hiking the lush and rocky landscapes of Victoria’s Grampians National Park. While getting chased by a kangaroo. For every premature self back-pat, something unexpected or awkward…
Victoria: Walks On The Wild Side – My Herald On Sunday Road Trip Article To Victoria, Australia
The unique rock formations of the Great Ocean Road. This past weekend the Herald On Sunday published my feature about some of the things to do in Victoria (Australia) beyond just Melbourne. I’d spent a week driving all over the state being wined and dined (tough gig I know!), exploring national parks both lush and barren,…