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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 Buy the magazine here

‘All aboard!’ – travel story for Outback magazine

Travel story aboard Yukon Tours for Outback magazine's travel issue, 2020 Words and pictures Ricky French Buy the magazine here

‘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 Buy the magazine here  

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,...