Victoria, Australia Top 50 Photos – Kangaroos, Koalas & Cockatoos

Here are my top 50 favourite photos from last week’s five-day jaunt across Victoria in Australia. This was thanks to Tourism Victoria and the Herald On Sunday and was a fun revelation in terms of all the other things to see in the state beyond Melbourne. As for Melbourne itself, it’s undeniably one of the…

Posing On The Central Coast & The Blue Mountains – Australia 2011

A couple of days ago, talk turned with Aussie friends of mine about a 2015 reunion. I met Swanny and Rach (now because of marriage, Swanny and Swanny?) in Vietnam in 2008 and we’ve stayed in touch ever since. A highlight was undoubtedly being asked to MC their wedding in March of 2013. While we…

Where To Stay In Sydney & Melbourne If You Love Historic Hotels

Melbourne’s Hotel Windsor. Yesterday the Herald On Sunday published two of my articles in a very swish looking two-page spread. I’ve been ducking across the Tasman a bit lately and figured it might be fun to seek out a couple of not just luxurious hotels, but places with genuine points of difference. Click here for…

‘The GC’ – Shame On You NZ On Air!

Shame, shame, shame on you New Zealand On Air. Like everyone with half a brain in this country, I find it appalling that New Zealand On Air used tax-payer money to fund a show as disastrously vacuous at The GC. A misplaced point mentioned by some on my Newstalk ZB talkback show was, “if you…

One Year Of Adventures In One (Longish) Paragraph

  Exactly one year ago today I flew from Auckland to Bangkok having closed a chapter on 11 years of working for The Radio Network, 10 years of living in my downtown apartment and 20 years of life in New Zealand. With a childhood spent in Malaysia I’ve often felt the pull back to South…