The Compleat Traveller

Screen grab from The Guardian Ouch! Look at that headline from The Guardian online this past Saturday, April 1st. For a moment or two...

River scene, Cambodia If ‘a picture is worth a thousand words,’ then thirty-five thousand pictures must be worth thirty-five million w...

The Morning Star, Venus, hovers above a rising sun My photographs today, feature a selection of images taken during the early morning ...

 Semaphore Jetty at Sunset Wow. September already. Spring is in the air, down under, and as I write this it is a beautiful day in ...

~ Have I told you about the day I spent ferry-hopping my way around Sydney Harbour ? No? Well, then, this is as good a time as any to tell ...

Click image to view full size Rising out of the earth like some type of prehistoric creature, this Moreton Bay Fig tree in one of Sydney’s ...

~ At the age of 40, former Jesuit priest, Michael McGirr – armed with not much more than a copy of Anna Karenina , some spare clothes and a ...

~ I’ve been doing some catch up reading now that I’m shop sitting the Book Box (Quality Book Resellers), on Semaphore Road, Adelaide. I’ve g...

~ Ever heard the expression, Taking a slow boat to China? Well, guess what? You can still catch a slow boat to China. Or to New York, London...

~ There is something about the late afternoon light that seems to be uniquely Australian – especially when you are out in the country. On my...

~ I was not expecting the delightful shock I got as the train from Petersham slowed into Circular Quay. The first thing I saw was the Sydney...

~ Day two of my road trip to Sydney unfolded with a beautiful, cold dawn, and the sight of a lone fox loping across an open field as it pres...

~ As I wrote in an earlier post , I love nothing more than to be on the open road, the highway stretching off to the far horizon, and naught...

~ Well, it’s one thing to sit around writing about travel, but it is another thing completely, to actually tear oneself away from the comfo...