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Hedonistic hiking on Mount Buffalo – The Australian newspaper T&I
Photo credit: Ricky French
Stone steps lead up through marble-trunked snow gums and mountain pepper trees. Frogs croak and a thousand insects flitter above the...
Thwarted travel in a time of Covid – The Australian newspaper T&I
Travel writers like to think they have a knack for getting themselves in the right place at the right time. Like any reporting, you...
‘Hydrotherapy’ – travel story for Outback magazine
Travel story through the Great Artesian Basin for Outback magazine's travel issue, 2020
Words and pictures Ricky French
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‘All aboard!’ – travel story for Outback magazine
Travel story aboard Yukon Tours for Outback magazine's travel issue, 2020
Words and pictures Ricky French
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‘Float therapy’ – travel story for Outback magazine
Travel story through the Gippsland Lakes for Outback magazine's travel issue, 2020. Words and pictures Ricky French
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Spies like us in Berlin – The Australian newspaper T&I
Of all the standard spy movie cliches (the briefcase swap, peepholes cut into the newspaper, the villain’s elaborate death machine), my favourite is the...
“Different Slopes” – The Weekend Australian T&I
When you’re standing at the top of your favourite ski run this season, looking out over the Australian Alps, ready to carve fresh tracks...
“Escape from Reality” – The Australian T&I
Cut adrift from the corona-crisis on a tour of East Gippsland
It feels like I’m floating on the border of two worlds: of what once...
Rapid descent into rafting – The Weekend Australian T&I
I’m sitting in an eight-person inflatable raft in the middle of the Nile River in Uganda, near the town of Jinja, two hours east...
“The reel deal at Kimberley Coastal Camp” – The Australian T&I
Tub remembers the date of the last rain as clearly as he remembers the size and shape of every snag in the Lawley River,...