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Meeting the silverbacks – Travel feature for Broadsheet

Photo credit: Jiwon Kim No one could argue our small G Adventures tour group has been starved of wildlife. So far on my cultural and...

Kigali Genocide Memorial – travel feature for Broadsheet

Photo credit: Jiwon Kim How strange and sad to be standing above the remains of 250,000 people. I’m at the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Kigali, the...

Backstage access to a Ugandan village – travel feature for Broadsheet

Photo credit: Jiwon Kim It’s the tail end of the wet season in Western Uganda. The smell of warm rain rises from dusty streets of...

Parklife: celebrating Britain’s national treasures – The Australian newspaper

I’ve never before had such serendipity on an impulse buy. Browsing the shelves of London’s palatial Waterstones bookstore I pick up at random The...

“Of Castles and Rascals” – travel feature for The Australian newspaper T&I

An astounding castle transformation in England's Lakes District Admit it, we’ve all been there. At some stage in our life we’ve all gotten into an...

“At the coalface” – The Australian newspaper T&I

For a moment I fear I’m the victim of an elaborate execution of reverse psychology. It’s early morning in Windermere, it’s damn cold and...

“Peak performance” travel feature for The Australian newspaper T&I

I’m met at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport by a curious sign on the wall that reads, “Go reversely prohibited.” The phrase becomes my mantra for...

“The air up there” – The Australian newspaper T&I

Scenic flights reveal Australia's beauty of the highest order - composite feature for The Australian newspaper T&I  Photo credit: Ricky French

“Steak a claim” – The Australian newspaper T&I

I wish I could see this scene from above. It would look like an exquisitely detailed model laid out on a table in a...

“Realm of the raptors” – travel story for The Australian newspaper

Photo credit: Ricky French In Spike Milligan’s absurdist children’s book, Badjelly the Witch, the hero is a giant eagle named Jim who bravely rescues the...