I am a single independent woman who spends an inordinate amount of time travelling for work and for fun – sailing, skiing, hiking and adventure. Through different places and meeting new people, I like to think I’m a traveller rather than a tourist. As a journalist who usually writes about science and the environment for a living, writing about my travels and taking photos is second nature. Occasionally I get around to submitting stories to magazines and newspapers, but this is getting harder and harder with fewer publications and more journalists out of work. Hence, Tales...
Eight days, mostly running workshops, in Uganda is not enough to absorb its colour, smiles and richness. I wind through crowded colourful neighbourhood markets with baskets of mangoes and papaya; women sort fine brown seeds of millet, swirling the seeds …
I arrived in Dusseldorf from Venezia a week ago. It was latish on a Sunday evening and earlier that day I had lugged a heavy bag and two ancillary bags, laden with mandatory Italian shopping exploits, from my Venetian flat …
“Ah but how can it possibly be as good as Australian Shiraz,” I challenge the wine maker at the Brotte winery and museum in the charming town of Chateauneuf-du-pape, near the Rhone River in north eastern Provence. “There is no …
I’d heard of and visited the wonderful Yorkshire Dales but was unaware of the magic of the country east of the Dales by the sea… the Yorkshire Moors, until I visited there with my two friends, Dave and Claire. We …
