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About Me: Journalist, Travel Writer, Foreign Correspondent & Author
Journalist, travel writer, foreign correspondent, I write on breaking news, travel and amazing trips. As globetrotting in my work as in life, my stories are published in newspapers and magazines, online and in print, worldwide.
Breaking News Meets Travel Writing
I am a strange beast, combining in equal doses travel writing with breaking news coverage. As a news journalist, I’m interested in politics, social issues and the environment. For over two decades I’ve been a freelance foreign correspondent, reporting on breaking news and current affairs in Australia, France, Europe and the EU.
As a travel writer, I cover adventure, nature, culture and the arts, food, wine and design. Green travel and all the issues surrounding sustainable tourism are crucial to me. A global hotel industry correspondent, I write for US publications Hotel News Now and Hospitality Design.
My travel stories appear in the likes of CNN Travel, Lightfoot Travel, World Nomads, Monocle, the Globe&Mail and many others. For papers such as the South China Morning Post, I cover world news, architecture, life and travel. Finally, I am the author of several books including travel guides to Borneo, Switzerland, Barcelona and Rome.
Travel Intelligence
I love providing insights, information and analysis on major news issues affecting travellers. Recently, this meant rhe cascading ramifications of two years of Covid travel bans and lockdowns. During this time, I wrote extensively on Covid-related subjects for Forbes. Many stories looked to Europe’s border closures, Trump’s travel ban and Covid travel news from Fortress Australia. In the post-Covid era (phew!) I will continue to focus on the big news stories impacting travellers.
Global-Roaming Dispatches
Most of my life has been spent on the road, satisfying an innate travel itch. An incurable vagabond, I roam the planet in search of adventure, excitement, amazing encounters, contrast and beauty. There is nothing I love more than being footloose and fancy-free … with my camera and feet as trusty companions. There is no place like away!
Australia France Lifestyle
Australian but with a European soul too, I have been coming and going from France since the 90s. It is a grand amour and a part of me – and sometimes I wish I could push the Continents closer. But then life would be dull, wouldn’t it.
A self-confessed islomaniac, I am irresistibly drawn to remote, wild places. Particularly those richly imbued with nature, like my end of the world island of Tasmania. You can read more about me and my island beginnings here.
Home Is Away For A Journalist Travel writer
All my travel writing is an invitation to roam. There is a paradox in that, I know. For until recently, one of the biggest news issues of the century kept us all at a virtual standstill. But no more! So please come roam with me!