
A dream of trains – from luxury sleepers to intercity rattlers
Locked down in my apartment in Melbourne’s CBD, I dreamt of trains. For the past decade I’ve increasingly written about rail travel,...

Unexpected things I’ve learned in COVID lockdown (and want to keep in my life)
The most surprising thing I’ve discovered during the COVID-19 lockdown? How well this apocalypse is being catered. In TV shows and movies...

A lonelier planet? Why the best journeys are still found in the pages of printed guidebooks
“Buy me a beer!” I was on a bus in the Bieszczady range of the Carpathian Mountains, and the request came from...