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  • My feature in the September edition of Just Urbane is about an adventure for my son Tom and I on Rottnest Island. If getting there by seaplane wasn’t enough, exploring the island and exploring the sea above and below the waves had both of us exhilarated and exhausted. If you can’t get your hard copy…

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  • Since March of this year, the list of things we miss not being able to do because of Covid-19 is very often led by overseas travel.  For me it started out with thoughts about the destinations I wouldn’t be seeing in 2020.  It was also about the missed adventures, the exploration and discovery of new…

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  • Love Radio Melayu

    Love Radio Melayu

    Radio Melayu has a new studio and I recently had a great opportunity to have a look around and also have a chat about what I’ve been up to. We had a great discussion about staycations in Perth at the new Ritz-Carlton Perth, travelling through the Wheatbelt and catching yabbies and walking through woolsheds. We…

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  • Radio Melayu:  Lets begin the winter fightback! Get packing!

    I recently spent a brilliant evening on Radio Melayu chatting about my recent adventures and how we all need to find a way to get packing and escape winter by getting overseas or embracing winter and snuggling into a gorgeous resort down south. The link below features descriptions for a few of my new favourite…

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  • Travel that throws you back

    In the 1984 comedy movie, Top Secret, the French resistance group has a member whose name is De Ja Vu.  There is a scene in the movie where he is introduced to another character and he looks at him suspiciously and says, “Haven’t I met you somewhere before?” Like deja vu, the sense of nostalgia…

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  • With Have a Go News Newspaper and lifestyle website The Starfish, let’s find out where I found love.  There you go, I’ve said it.

    They make movies here.  It’s a land that gave birth to one of the worlds greatest crooners and one of the worlds greatest songs.  Below are some links to my story, published in The Starfish and also by Have A Go Newspaper.  This is a love story.  This is a story about Puglia, a land with towns that…

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  • Malay Fashion and Cultural Show

    A vibrant, elegant and delicious way to spend time with my daughter and a Malaysian community so proud of their culture I recently had two wonderful reasons to attend the Malay Fashion and Cultural Show. Having just returned from an opportunity to travel to Johor with the Consul-General of Malaysia, Mr Nazarudin Jaafar, I was…

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  • 6PR – Romantic Asia from Bali, to Borneo to Vietnam.

    Please enjoy listening to my story about Romantic Asia.  Maybe not just for Valentines Day, you could try these any day of the year:      

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  • 6PR Interview: Labuan Island on the South China Sea

    Please enjoy the story below on Labuan Island:    

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  • 6PR Interview: Abrolhos Islands

    Please enjoy the story below on the Abrolhos Islands:  

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