I loved my recent opportunity to appear on The Couch, a television lifestyle program broadcast across Australia and filmed here in WA.

Fred, Steve and I looked into the world of dark tourism. While you might be thinking of shaky footage of people sneaking into Chernobyl it is so much more. Battlefields like Gallipoli, the Western Front and Long Tan are sites we visit as a rite of passage and to try and comprehend the death of so many. Similarly, visiting Wittenoom, Roebuck Bay, Snowtown and the Montebello Islands are locations here in Australia that fascinate for their dark history.

I also talked about some dark tourism origins, like the tourists from England who travelled in the 1850’s to the Crimean to watch the English cavalry charge the Russian guns.

It’s a big topic and one that carries with it the need to be respectful of others and mindful of culture around you – a bit like all travel really.